GUID not updated on import
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.
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Using the Importer on an IIS Server
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.
Download/View Schema (or DTD) for XML Import
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”.
Moving a blog from Tumblr to WordPress
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.
WXR import problem — not including categories
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
Import a very old WordPress Version into new WordPress
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
How to completely export and import WordPress?
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
How to migrate a WordPress installation from one site to another, including all images?
Ensure that the NEW site is already running the same Theme, and all appropriate Plugins. Generate your export file from your OLD site, ensuring that you export “all content”. Import the file into the NEW site, ensuring that you enable/check the option to download/import all attachments. (It is on the same import step during which … Read more
Why shouldn’t @import be used to import a parent theme into a child theme?
@import is a convenient CSS shortcut for loading a particular stylesheet (often parent themes or other dependencies), but part of the reason why it’s generally discouraged is due to – as you had mentioned – a small performance hit (stylesheets loaded with @import are not loaded in parallel). Another reason is that by loading stylesheets … Read more
Import old SQL dump into new WordPress version
If it is an older version of WP, you need to find out what version of WP generated the database, as WP upgrades the DB most times the files are upgraded and you should incrementally upgrade to also upgrade the database. Look in the wp_options table for option 711 and see what the version is; … Read more