Title: Partial Import WordPress to WordPress Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Partial Import WordPress to WordPress * Resolved [lindseyh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lindseyh/) * (@lindseyh) * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-wordpress-to-wordpress/) * I previously had an older version of wordpress on different server. After trying to backup my database and import tables/mysql db and failing I decided to upgrade that installation, export the wordpress file and import it to my new WP installation on a different server. * Everything went smoothly except for the import. I have a file that has roughly 300 entries and 3000 comments, however whenever it imports into my new wordpress installation, only the first 155 entries come through. The other half don’t. I tried to import twice, the second time deleting the entries that came through the first time, but then the file imported nothing. * Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? I don’t know why WP is exporting fine but not importing. Is there another way I can go about importing my entries to the new wordpress installation? Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [Vietson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/limited/) * (@limited) * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-542493) * You can manually import your posts. Most db import only file size up to 3mb ( or at least my server). * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-542495) * Would be nice to know what versions of WP are running on the old and new and which export and import options you’re trying. * If 2.1.x, go to Manage -> Export to get the “WXR” xml file on the old blog. ( if not 2.1, go get the WXR plugin [here](http://technosailor.com/wordpress-to-wordpress-import/)). * On the new blog, then just go to Options -> Import and choose the WordPress option. * Thread Starter [lindseyh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lindseyh/) * (@lindseyh) * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-542523) * hey, sorry guys for being so vague. I am exporting from 2.1.x and I am importing to 2.1.x. Originally the blog I tried to export the db from was older (I can’t remember what version, but not 2.1.x) and that wasn’t working for me so I upgraded to the current version to fix this. But now my importing is not complete. I have the WXR xml file and it’s exporting properly, as far as I can tell it has 300 entries, but WP is not pulling in all 300 entries even though they are in the file. * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-542525) * Hmm, and the import you’re doing is the “WordPress” option? * Have you checked your web server’s error log? I wonder if you’re running out of (php) memory. * Thread Starter [lindseyh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lindseyh/) * (@lindseyh) * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-542528) * Yeah I did the WP option. I don’t know what’s going on. Yesterday I started getting 500 internal errors, so I gave up after trying to just restore the db. I restored the db and changed the config file and now everything is peachy, all 300+ entries and 3K+ comments are where they’re supposed to be. Not sure why the import wouldn’t work, but for now all that matters is that I got them in the system via the db restore. * [Stelios](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djstelios/) * (@djstelios) * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-542597) * I had the same problem trying to import 1463 posts. As soon as I fixed the PHP timeout and CGI timeouts, the importing was always stopping at the post #643. I realize the problem was on post #644. * Opening the XML file with the WXR data, and manually removing the problematic item from the XML (about 2500 lines), everything was working fine. I was reading and re-reading the lines of the specific post and after 2-3 hours!!!! I realize the problem was on some comments. I remove a range of comments from the XML and everything was fine. * For the specific post the PHP’s preg_match_all function, was unable to parse the regular expression pattern `'|(.*?)|is'`, used by wordpress. php importer, because of a mis formatted? comment between the elements. * Anyway, I was unable to find out a recent solution, even replacing lines on XML output, nor changing the search pattern, except from deleting a range of problematic comments * [adaptiman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adaptiman/) * (@adaptiman) * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-542671) * Is there a way to execute the import script on the server? I’m getting timeouts when I try to import through the web, but I have access to execute the imports on the server, I just need to know what commands to execute. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Partial Import WordPress to WordPress’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [export](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/export/) * [Import](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/import/) * In: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) * 7 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [adaptiman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adaptiman/) * Last activity: [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-542671) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics