Import selected posts & images

  • els76uk

    (@els76uk)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hello! I have a lot of posts on a self-hosted install, but that I need to retrieve. I don’t want to get everything – just the stuff by me. But I want to make sure I get everything, including images.

    I then want to import to a different, also self hosted WP install.

    When I tried the standard WordPress Importer, it didn’t import any of the images.

    Can anyone suggest a (relatively) easy way of exporting the posts and images together? A plugin would be ideal, but I can’t find anything when I search.

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  • mojowill

    (@mojowill)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    The WordPress importer will import any media associated with a post however it won’t import Featured images for some reason. you can use this plugin:

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/export-featured-images/

    I usually make an export with all my posts and then export using the plugin to export all the featured images. You can then import both exported files using the WordPress importer.

    Thread Starter els76uk

    (@els76uk)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks @mojowill, that looks great, but doesn’t let me filter the featured images by author. I have a couple of hundred articles by myself; but if I let it export all the featured images across the site, I’d end up with literally tens of thousands. That’s why I was specific in my question that “I don’t want to get everything – just the stuff by me.”

    mojowill

    (@mojowill)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Ah I understand, I’m not aware of anything that does that. Perhaps you could use the plugin I suggested as a base and modify it to add the filters you require?

    Thread Starter els76uk

    (@els76uk)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Great idea. Sadly, I’m not clever enough to even know where to start with that.

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