I relentlessly searched and read until I found an answer! Turns out, the right thing to use is actually MetaWeblog API and XMLRPC, which you’ll have to activate as it is disabled by default. First thing, visit the Settings menu in your admin panel and navigate to “Writing”. Scroll down until you see the XML-RPC … Read more
I think all you should need to do is export from WP as you normally would if you were just transferring the content. Download the resulting XML file, change all <wp:post_type>post</wp:post_type> entries to <wp:post_type>YOUR_CUSTOM_POST_TYPE</wp:post_type>. This should work, assuming your Custom Post Type is already registered in the theme.
Try Search and Replace plugin which is A simple search for find strings in your database and replace the string. You can search in ID, post-content, GUID, titel, excerpt, meta-data, comments, comment-author, comment-e-mail, comment-url, tags/categories and categories-description.
Two things I could imagine: Check the post_modified value. Maybe import creates a definitive timestamp that you could use. You’ll still have to save the import date somewhere so you can check against it. I do some post importing via a stream/HTTP response (this is not the native importer). During the import, I map my … Read more
Very simple plugin to achieve this. Runs only on activation, so, if there are 5 CSV files, the plugin must be activated/deactivated five times. File: /wp-content/plugins/create-cats-from-csv/create-cats-from-csv.php <?php /* Plugin Name: Insert CSV Categories Version: 1.0 Description: Reads a CSV file on plugin activation and insert the Categories/Description/Parent into WordPress as defined in the CSV Plugin … Read more
WordPress has a perfect wrapper for HTML > Theme conversion: The theme itself. All information can be found in the Codex page. It is enough to add a folder to your wp-content/themes directory (or whatever directory you registered in addition to that), and add the following files functions.php style.css index.php header.php to your custom themename … Read more
Insert post without actions/hooks
You have to use “process_bulk_action” function like this: public function process_bulk_action() { //nonce validations,etc $action = $this->current_action(); switch ( $action ) { case ‘export_action’: // Do whatever you want wp_redirect( esc_url( add_query_arg() ) ); break; default: // do nothing or something else return; break; } return; } } If you need a complete example this … Read more
How can I write a bulk MySQL command to add in the value wp_capabilites=”a:1:{s:10:”subscriber”;b:1;}” into each user_id except 1, 2 and 3 ie. the newly imported users? You don’t. That is a serialized array which is a PHP construct. MySQL has no idea what to do with it. To the database, it is just an … Read more
Maybe this is the answer: http://mansurovs.com/tech/wordpress-does-not-import-categories-and-tags (from there) : Make sure not to delete the original “Hello World!” post that gets automatically created by WordPress. If you have already deleted it, create a new dummy post that you can later delete. Make sure that the WordPress import process is successfully finished. After all posts and … Read more