Lol. I got reminded of this question when I got the Tumbleweed badge for having no answers and low views for a week. I didn’t figure out the right method for this but hacked through it by printing out the posts in a table format on the archive page for this custom post type and … Read more
Best practice to import/export specific pages and posts
I just want to make my own exporter Well, export_wp() will fetch the data (it builds the sql query, I think). So I’m not sure the benefit of using an api request to try and hand that data to export_wp(), unless you mean to generate the arguments for it via an endpoint, or some values … Read more
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.
Problem is that meta values are not unique key/value data. E.g. with the key ‘OneKey’ you can have a lot of values for the same post. So, in a flat table, for the column ‘OneKey’ you should have multiple rows where the post id is the same and seems to me is not what you … Read more
The reason copying those messed up your site was probably because of id mismatches. That is, posts with the ids of the stuff you’re importing already exists. Regardless, since woocommerce stores orders as a custom post type, your safest bet here is probably the built in wordpress post import/export tool. 1. In the wordpress backend … Read more
The start of what you’re doing wrong can be explained by this quote: which action attribute points to a file (download.csv.php) in my plugin folder, that should not be shown, just prompt a file download dialog for the csv dump. and this code: $core = $_POST[‘download’].’wp-load.php’; if(isset($_POST[‘download’]) && is_file($core)){ require_once( $core ); What you’re basically … Read more
Although Chip’s method may work for some it did not for me. I did get it working however this way: Do the normal export of pages and posts and import them to your new blog (having deleted the original pages and posts) Download the wp-content/uploads folder via ftp from your old site and upload it … Read more
Is there a way to export Advanced Custom Fields data?
This is generally not a good idea. See this WordPress database diagram. You need to consider: posts that have categories or tags (terms), their relationships, term meta, and taxonomies posts that have authors (users) posts that have comments things that are actually posts that you might not realise are posts (eg. almost everything in WordPress … Read more