Comments on: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:13:46 +0000

Thank you! Your export plugin saved me from a world of hurt.

I had an old Japanese blog using Wordpress ME 1.5.1.3. I was lazy and never updated it. Finally a problem bubbled up because of some new database version at my host. I had to do a couple of tweaks suggested by commenters above to get it working.

First I added the 1=1 trick to the if statement. This allowed the export option to appear because it wasn’t there at first.

Second I had to delete category_count as Anne suggests above.

After that, the export went fine, and I was able to import everything perfectly into the latest Wordpress 2.6 (Japanese version). PHEW! THANKS AGAIN!

By: Your Computer Genius

Your Computer Genius — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:31:18 +0000

I didn’t know that 1.5.2 blogs still existed any more. But, lo and behold, a client came to me with one!

I used the method in #333 (actually tried it before I read that) but also I had to reformulate the xml stream. I just changed it to ‘text’ instead of ‘text/xml’ because (and maybe it’s just safari — others could be more forgiving) my browser didn’t appreciate the format!

But then it worked.

Thanks! Cheers!

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:24:12 +0000

Of course not, Joanne. The post says it’s for WordPress 2.0 and lower and that WordPress 2.1 and higher (this includes WordPress 2.5) has it built in.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:22:52 +0000

Is this plugin compatible with wordpress 2.5? I uploaded the plugin, activated, copied the wordpress.php file to wp-admin/import – but I can’t see how to export. I’m trying how to figure out how to export all posts from a single category. Thanks.

By: Angel

Angel — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:29:25 +0000

Using your plugin, can I select the articles which I want to export import ?

By: UP

UP — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:22:55 +0000

Correction to that last post – I tried it and it doesn’t work. Apparently it’s not supported for 2.3.3 versions etc. I was trying to use this plugin to migrate from 2.3.3 to 2.2.3

By: UP

UP — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:19:08 +0000

To use for 2.0+ versions you need to disable these 2 lines at the start of the code:

// if ( ( ‘2.0′ == substr( get_bloginfo(‘version’), 0, 3 ) ) || ( ‘1.5′ == substr( get_bloginfo(‘version’), 0, 3 ) ) )
// {

And this line at the second last line of the code:

// }

just before the PHP end tag

By: associate

associate — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:57:23 +0000

Does this plugin allow to import only a few posts or do you have to import/ export all your posts?

By: felix

felix — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:50:30 +0000

If you get “The uploaded file could not be moved to…” error, the solution is to set the permissions on the ‘wp-content’ folder to ‘777′ using an FTP client.

By: radyo

radyo — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:31:02 +0000

thx for this tips here i test it on my test wp site