Title: [Plugin: WordPress Importer] Issues in wp_posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress Importer] Issues in wp_posts

 *  Resolved [toniolol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toniolol/)
 * (@toniolol)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-importer-issues-in-wp_posts/)
 * Hi,
    when I move from my old wordpress site to my new I used the plugin and after
   I saw some mistakes on photos’s url. I’ve made some update on my db to repair
   that and this is what was in error :
 * Table : wp_posts
    Column : post_content Column : guid
 * On that columns there were my old wordpress address.
 * Regards

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 *  [Jon Cave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duck_/)
 * (@duck_)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-importer-issues-in-wp_posts/#post-1929158)
 * The guid field represents a unique identifier for a post (typically useful in
   RSS feeds AFAIK) so it shouldn’t matter if it’s referencing an invalid address.
   The only reason that it uses what looks like a permalink/shortlink is because
   that makes a simple, relatively good unique **(and permanent)** identifier. However
   it should NOT be treated as a URL or permalink (note that the guid element in
   the export file states that it isn’t a permalink in the isPermalink attribute).
 * However there was some argument on [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6492](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6492)
   for updating/changing the GUID on import in case of duplicating the ‘unique’ 
   field.
 *  Thread Starter [toniolol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toniolol/)
 * (@toniolol)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-importer-issues-in-wp_posts/#post-1929271)
 * Thanks for the guid explain.
    I’ve updated both guid and post_content because
   my old wp site didn’t exist anymore. I can’t remember before my update if the
   matter was in guid or post_content but the matter was on img src which were on
   my old www wp site. After my replace in my update everything is ok. Regards

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 * Last reply from: [toniolol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toniolol/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-importer-issues-in-wp_posts/#post-1929271)
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