Have a look at this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-dummy-content/stats/ It is random content so if you need to always to load the same content you will have to look at the code and create your own version. One pain of theme development is setting up all the pages and blog posts in order for you to see … Read more
Try the Tumblr Importer. 🙂 http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tumblr-importer/ Let me know if you have any problems with it, we’re actively trying to improve it.
There are 2 ways that you could do this. The first and more difficult is to write a program, the other is to do a bulk update. Why do difficult when easy way will work equally well? and especially as this is a once-off requirement The easy way: In the admin dashboard, select the view … 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
Since this is for a multisite (the same and NOT a different wordpress installation), would any of these plugins give a solution to your question? New Blog Defaults It is a mu-plugin and has been around for some time (I have tried it myself and works just fine). Under “Bonus Settings” you are provided with … Read more
One big help I have found with importing / updating large qty’s of posts is to use InnoDB tables and transactions, in batches of 200-500 posts (with more postmeta, use smaller post batches). It greatly improves performance, given that much of it is individual MySQL statements each of which must hit the db transaction log … Read more
If you’re going from WP to WP, then you want to use the built-in exporter and importer. Your links should come along with it. I’m not sure about the categories with it, but this might help http://ellejohara.com/blog/making-the-wordpress-opml-tool-slightly-more-useful/
you need to get the ID back from your post insertion and use that with add_post_meta: $post_id = wp_insert_post($post); add_post_meta($post_id, ‘thumbnail’, $yourvalue, true);
I would use a step by step strategy. 1) Make a local installation of WP using XAAMP or similarl 2) Get 1.5.1 version from wp repository 3) Import all and check all is fine 4) Do a backup of imported data 5) Get a more recent version like 2.0 or so 6) Update and check … Read more
To copy a WordPress install from A to B, do an SQL dump on site A, and restore it to site B. Then search and replace the DB to swap the old URLs for the new URLs. Make sure to copy over the uploads folder in wp-content. To do the search replace, consider using a … Read more