Title: Export field
Last modified: April 1, 2019

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# Export field

 *  Resolved [KatrineDS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katrineds/)
 * (@katrineds)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-field/)
 * Hi,
 * I just switched theme and the new theme doesn’t show the metabox.
    I need to 
   export it from the old site, so I can import the content from the metabox to 
   the long description field in Woocommerce on the new site. How can I do that?
 * /Katrine

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/)
 * (@tw2113)
 * The BenchPresser
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-field/#post-11380103)
 * Chances are that the code used to register the metaboxes are in the theme that
   you were using. You’ll need to locate where in the theme that was happening so
   that you can re-use in perhaps a more theme-independent location like a custom
   plugin.
 * The content saved by the metaboxes should all still be in your database as post
   meta, so as long as it’s still the same database, there’s nothing needing exported
   there.
 *  Thread Starter [KatrineDS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katrineds/)
 * (@katrineds)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-field/#post-11380128)
 * The new theme author are not much of a help – so export/import would be a lot
   easier. I have space for the content in long description. Just need the data 
   extracted.
 * Is it not possible to export it somehow – with the SKU. That would be awesome!
 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/)
 * (@tw2113)
 * The BenchPresser
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-field/#post-11380180)
 * CMB2 doesn’t have any import/export functionality in it directly, as it’s just
   a library to register the metaboxes to use. You’ll need something like WordPress’
   built in tools or perhaps tools like WP Migrate DB and similar for actual processing
   of that. We also don’t have import/export in the fashion that you may be thinking
   of for Advanced Custom Fields, since CMB2 is strictly a code-level library, with
   no metabox configuration saved in the database.

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