Title: WordPress's Export Posts Function and Plugin
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# WordPress's Export Posts Function and Plugin

 *  [george.firefalcon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/georgefirefalcon/)
 * (@georgefirefalcon)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresss-export-posts-function-and-plugin/)
 * Good Afternoon, people.
 * I’m starting a new WordPress site (using all knowledge I gathered with my first),
   although I can’t export my older WordPress’s site posts through the Import/Export
   Plugin.
 * The xml archive is downloaded, but it displays an error, as below:
    Error on 
   XML processing: Prefix not associated to a namespace Position: file:///…/firefalcon039sworld.
   wordpress.2016-07-27.xml Line number 127, column 2
 * And the beginning of the line and column is shown as below:
    <itunes:summary>
   Show me Your World</itunes:summary> ——–^
 * I’m not experienced as PHP Developer and WordPress developer, so I ask for your
   help. Thanks!

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresss-export-posts-function-and-plugin/#post-7608718)
 * The file is missing a namespace declaration for `itunes`. To add one you’ll need
   to determine the URL to the related schema.
 * Honestly, I’ve never had much luck with the Export/Import plugin. Rather than
   trying to debug the problem, I’ve resorted to copying the DB using phpMyAdmin
   with the default SQL format. Going this way, you do need to do a search and replace
   of URLs, but several different options exist to do this. I’ve always used the
   Interconnectit script without problems.
 * This is all covered in [Moving WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress).
   You’ll want to clean out old cruft from the DB before exporting. You don’t necessarily
   need to copy the entire DB, you could just copy posts and posts meta if that’s
   all you want. This is assuming you’ve created a virtually empty DB through the
   install process. If you want a true clone you’ll need to copy everything.

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

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresss-export-posts-function-and-plugin/#post-7608718)
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