Title: Transferring Menu Items
Last modified: November 15, 2021

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# Transferring Menu Items

 *  Resolved [jfambrini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jfambrini/)
 * (@jfambrini)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transferring-menu-items/)
 * I’m trying to export just the menu to a site. I have tried “Export Wordprss Menus”
   and “WPS Menu Exporter”. I successfully export the menu but when I try to import
   it into the site, I get the following error:
    Import WordPress Sorry, there has
   been an error. The file does not exist, please try again.
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ftransferring-menu-items%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transferring-menu-items/#post-15073991)
 * Are you able to open the export file locally for reading in a plain text editor?
   If so, the importer tool should be able find and access it as well.
 * Which importer tool are you using? I recommend asking for help in their dedicated
   support channel. Assuming you are using the official WordPress Importer plugin,
   their forum is here:
    [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-importer/](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-importer/)
 *  Thread Starter [jfambrini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jfambrini/)
 * (@jfambrini)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transferring-menu-items/#post-15074222)
 * [@bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/) thanks for the reply.
   I have checked the exported file and it has all the menu items so it is off to
   the importer plugin’s forum. Thanks again!
 *  Thread Starter [jfambrini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jfambrini/)
 * (@jfambrini)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transferring-menu-items/#post-15076957)
 * [@bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/) posted a question in
   that forum but just checked again and no one has replied in that forum for over
   a year so this may an unsupported plugin. Are you aware of any other plugin that
   may be used to import in XML files.
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transferring-menu-items/#post-15077972)
 * Nothing specific, sorry. There’s always [https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/importer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/importer/)
   
   A lot of false positives in the results, but a few look promising. Any that imports
   XML has potential.
 *  Thread Starter [jfambrini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jfambrini/)
 * (@jfambrini)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transferring-menu-items/#post-15093469)
 * [@bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/) it is working now. The
   problem was truncated import. Had to drop all the tables and do a fresh import
   and it fixed the problem. Thanks for all your help.

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## Tags

 * [import menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/import-menu/)
 * [xml](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xml/)

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 * Last reply from: [jfambrini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jfambrini/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transferring-menu-items/#post-15093469)
 * Status: resolved

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