Title: Please note: Image support
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Please note: Image support

 *  [Shmoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macpresss/)
 * (@macpresss)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-note-image-support/)
 * I think I figured it out why people have problems importing images..
 * When you create a WordPress export file based of a single post type ( Posts, 
   Pages or a custom post type ) , the export file doesn’t include the media library
   files because it’s a WordPress post type too.
 * The WordPress export file will only show the image_ID but after importing your
   content in a new WordPress site there is no image in your library related to 
   that image_ID.
 * This is kinda sad because for now you always have to export ALL content if you
   need images.
 * I think there should be an extra option or conditional logic in place that checks
   whether or not you need the images to be exported. If you only export Posts for
   example, and a post_ID has a featured image attached, the export file shouldn’t
   contain the image_ID but an absolute url to that image/attachment.
    When importing,
   the script only has to go fetch images elsewhere based on that url..
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 * Last reply from: [Shmoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macpresss/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-note-image-support/)
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