I imported/exported between a single wordpress blog and a multisite wordpress without problems, many times. Personally on a multi-site wordpress I have a parent generic theme and each website has it’s own child theme with as few files as possible, mostly only html/css for custom post types. Security issues or big complicated options are most … Read more
Figured it out upon examining my SQL file. It begins as SQL, and near the end changes to PHP. For some reason the download got messed up and the SQL export began outputting the PHP of the PHPmyAdmin page I was on! (not even just the client side HTML, it was spitting out server side … Read more
WordPress trims off the forward slash when import
You can use this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/.
If this is a standard CMS (not something you came up with yourself), I would say that a WXR solution is the way to go. It might take some extra work, but it will be a good learning experience and a nice way to build up your WordPress skills. The WXR route will be an … Read more
you could use phpMyAdmin to do a search&replace on the wordpress database for the old youtube embed string and then replace with the new one. Should be possible since the syntax is similar enough. edit: to add from this other stackexchange question: Search RegEx is a good plugin to be able to search and replace … Read more
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
It is sometimes possible to edit theme files, including functions.php, inside wp-admin. Many hosts and devs disable this feature since it can cause security issues as well as allow you to break the site. So if you can access the file via FTP, that’s generally the recommended method. If you don’t see “Appearance > Editor” … Read more
WP All Import has a lot of undocumented features in the various hooks, actions and filters implemented in the code. The easiest way to do such a mapping is to add a filter to the pmxi_options_options and add custom rules. These rules will show up under the Custom Fields accordion during the import configuration step. … Read more
There are 3 ways you can import content from Word: Paste from Word There’s a button in the editor that allows you to paste content directly from Word. This removes the special formatting Word uses to lay content out on the page and will make things work well on your site. (The button is in … Read more