While importing from machine-readable formats, such as RSS is quite straightforward and usually has plenty of tools around… it is very different story with arbitrary HTML. If you are not up to code this from scratch, then closest semi-automated tool I know is Dapper – it can process HTML pages and according to rules that … Read more
Firstly, your upload_max_filesize is much smaller than your post_max_filesize which means that even though you can POST 100MB of data, PHP will only accept files in that POST data which are 8MB or less. Try increasing this limit. Secondly, are you sure that your php.ini is being loaded by your host? Not all hosts allow … 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
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
The export file isn’t supposed to contain actual images–just references to them. When you do the import (as @Philip directed), it’s important that the images still be available via http in those original locations. WordPress downloads them and adds them to the local media library during the import process.
The GUID is not an URL. Use get_permalink() to get the correct URLs. Just ignore the GUID. It is – as the name says – an identifier.
Have you verified permissions on the upload_tmp_dir (C:\Temp)? It’s possible that the upload is actually failing there rather than in the destination directory.
As far as I know no one ever [publicly] documented it and all questions about that are met with “it’s like RSS, want documentation – do it yourself”.
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.
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