wordress core and importer has no way to know how any of the data is actually being used. The importer will just import everything, if a meta data stopped being used then you will get some not needed stuf in your DB but nothing worse then that. Of course it is very easy to test, … Read more
Export plugin omits many images
Moving Posts to a new site and maintaining URLs
WP Importer is fine, providing the security of the site is in tact – meaning: No users with “admin” username secure passwords user registration disabled Salts configured properly in wp-config.php Renowned plugins ONLY – lots of plugins can be the cause of a weak link in a sites security, especially if the plugin provides any … Read more
Firstly it is always best to avoid HTML in your data especially divs. There is plenty CSS from what I can see and I’m guessing none of those styles would be used in the final blog. So it would result in a lot of inert code, not good practice and it is best to spend … Read more
As i understand you have used a function like get_template_directory_uri() or a similar one for your image URLs. This way I believe you are only saving relative URL. So domain change is reflected on the URL change. If you want the images to point to the old domain then you should hard code in the … Read more
bbPress includes an importer to import Mingle Forums (WordPress Plugin) http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/
I’d use the export tool but split the files using a tool like http://rangerpretzel.com/content/view/20/1/ You may need to check everything individually to make sure there’s no conflicts like same name categories, tags and usernames. Check posts, pages, comments, custom fields, terms, navigation menus and custom posts for potential conflicts. You may want to set these … Read more
Gallery can include either: specific images, in which case their IDs are explicitly listed in shortcode all images attached to the post, in which case shortcode doesn’t specify that (as in your example) So your description is a little contradictory – if images weren’t attached to the post, then that example wouldn’t have worked in … Read more
With no native solution popping up here, I ended up writing a script that Parsed my the XML import file I had and identified problem attachments Manually download those attachments with a file extension Upload those images to a new web server Alter the appropriate link and wp:attachment_url nodes to point to the new URLs … Read more