Migrate image from my old blog

The problem is a failed assumption, the media library is not a file directory, it doesn’t even look at the uploads folder. When you upload things to WP, it creates an attachment post, and it’s those that get shown in the media library. Otherwise, if it just listed what was in the uploads folder, every … Read more

Importing Geo data into wordpress database

To answer your question… Yes, it’s doable. But to give you some pointers into the right direction… I’ve known some folks who have had good success using the WordPress Importer plugin. You could conceivably export your geo data from your database (using whatever DB management tool you’re comfortable with) to the import format that this … Read more

Error: Failed to import tag/post

After a long day of tweaking, I found there were several problems: The whitespace in the XML matters. The importer throws errors when each item’s child elements are not in the same line. Any whitespace between them will cause an indentation error and fail that row’s import. This doesn’t seem to matter on the actual … Read more