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How do I export my WordPress blog as a book?

I want to export some or all of the posts of a blog into a format that makes sense to a publisher (traditional or self-publisher(e.g.: Lulu.com)) (MS Word, RTF, PDF, epub, something else). What tools ...
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Plugin API for easy admin list table generation, handling & exporting of MySQL tables?

I'm aware of the WP_List_Table class (which has helped tremendously as it stands). However, I'm hunting for something even more capable - some form of API whereby you could simply 'register' a MySQL ...
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WordPress Theme Options Import/Export

I already have a theme options page that saves to wp_options > kittens_options. I'm looking for a simple way to incorporate an import/export textarea of those options on my options page. I've ...
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Export all posts as individual plain txt files

I wish to export all of my posts as individual plain text files. So, the format may be something like: title.txt   Title: title Pub date: date Category: cat Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, ...
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Blog Settings import/export in Wordpress Network environment

I can't use PHPMyAdmin to export/import my blogs from one server to an other because I'm using Wordpress Network. Export/import works pretty well for Posts, custom posts types and their media, but ...
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How To Export/Import WordPress (MySQL) Database Properly Via Command-Line?

Normally, a MySQL database can be exported and imported using these simple SSH commands: Export: mysqldump -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD DATABASE_NAME > filename.sql Import: mysql -u USERNAME -p ...
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I want to develop locally with Multisite, then migrate each site to separate remote WP installs

I use WordPress for the majority of my client work. I develop locally with MAMP and then move the sites to the remote server when its time to go live or show the client the progress. I just migrate ...
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How to Create Export/Import Functionality for Plugin

I am following the tutorial here http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creative-coding/creating-a-simple-backuprestore-settings-feature/ The script shows how to export all options into JSON. Since my ...
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Import and export links from WordPress.com to private site

Is there some way to export/import links from a wordpress.com site to a private site? I have a rather large directory of links. I fetch the opml file and the category levels are there, but when I use ...
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Best way to import users, post and categories from an external database

I need to migrate an existing website to WordPress. This website already has a basic database containing users and posts (with a category), but it also has a high number of records so it's not ...
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Is it possible to import a wordpress backup from a single site in to a multi-site configuration?

I have a local development server with WordPress installed (my desktop Linux Mint 12 box). I'd like to use multi-site WordPress to manage my different client projects through one install, but I have a ...
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What is the best way to export and import theme options?

So what is the best way to create an export and import feature, I tried serialize() and urlencode() on an array of options to be used in a url like so: export.php?data=(long string), and use $_GET ...
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Non-Linear Questionnaires in Wordpress

I want to make the following happen in Wordpress People answer questions in paginated or single page form. Each next set of options is dependent on the option the user selects preiviously At the ...
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WordPress (+WPMU) Import/Export ALL settings?

As we all know WordPress does not import Widgets when you import content with [Tools > Import] and I'm wondering what kind of script could do that? Database has more than just 1 single information ...
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How to completely export and import WordPress?

I exported all posts of a WordPress blog. Then I imported the xml file to another WordPress blog. When I tried to search few posts in the new blog, which are in the old blog, I did not find anything. ...
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Problem: Create a cron job to export posts to a WordPress XML file on server

I need a way to automatically export all WordPress posts from a specific date and have it output the file on the server that can be downloaded daily. The reason the XML format is needed is because ...
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How to export comments in WordPress?

I want to export my comments to Excel, PDF or Word. The format really doesn't matter, I just want them exported. I tried the Export Comments plugin, the standard one, but couldn't get it to work, I ...
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Most Flawless Way To Transfer from Dev to Prod [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Easily Move a WordPress Install from Development to Production? So I've been working with WordPress for a while now and I usually develop locally and then upload ...
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Export wordpress table to excel

I have created PHP scripts before to export a database table to .xls format like this: $select = "SELECT * FROM tracking"; $export = mysql_query ( $select ) or die ( "Sql error : " . mysql_error( ) ...
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Export local WP install to live - help needed

This question I'm asking has been asked a thousand different ways, and I refuse to believe I'm the only one with a basic need here so here goes: I'm taking a simple local install and putting it live. ...
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Migrating WP site to another URL

We are planning to change the domain name of our website.We are not changing the host but creating a new domain and will close/redirect all traffic to new domain (there will be not update on the old ...
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Exporting and importing my Wordpress database, but none of the plugin settings are importing

I'm dumping my entire WordPress database, changing all necessary references, and then importing it into another domain. Everything works fine, except my plugin settings are not being set in the new ...
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Export entries and multiple custom field meta to .csv?

First time poster. I'm trying to export a bunch of custom posts out to a csv file so I can easily import them into a new database. I've ran the native export to xml, but it's not the correct format I ...
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How to migrat a Wordpress installtion from one site to another, including images and featured images?

I need to move a Wordpress site hosted on Dreamhost to the my companies servers. To do so I used the built in import and export feature that comes with Wordpress (using a wordpress export file), ...
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Is comment metadata included in the export file?

If I would export a WordPress database, posts and comments etc. are saved to an XML file. Would comment metadata be included in this XML file? I.e. the table wp_commentmeta, mentioned here: ...
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How to add an export function to a custom Option Theme Page

I'm creating a new Wordpress template and I have a question: I've added a custom Option Page to my new template (you can see what I'm doing Here and Here) but now I would like to add a new function. ...
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Download/View Schema (or DTD) for XML Import

Where can I download the schema (or DTD) for the layout of the WordPress import/export file format?
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How do i export the HTML from text widgets?

I placed HTML in several text widgets which where lost after i deleted all inactive widgets and changed themes but i have found the data in the tables. The only problem, its mixed in with all this ...
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Import Images from one self-hosted WordPress install to another

I am redeveloping a client's site and, for a number of reasons, in the process changing hosts. I'm developing it on the new host and to get the site orgainised I have attempted to import all the pages ...
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Where does the Media Library live in the database?

I'm exporting a Wordpress site from localhost to a web host, and I am unable to import the Media Library, as the web host is unable to contact localhost. I've uploaded all of the localhost files from ...
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Fixing media links after importing to multisite

When i imported all posts and media from a old site to new site which on wordpress multisite. The image links on posts are got broken because how media are stored on a multisite is quite different ...
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Imported thumbnails have incorrect URL

I have an older WordPress site that is going away but I am taking the content from the site and importing it into my new WordPress site. To do this, I used the WordPress Export tool, located in my ...
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Export a blog(not mine) as a PDF document

Is it possible to export the posts of a blog as a PDF? There is a blog with a couple of hundred posts that I'd like to read on my ereader, so I was wondering whether I could extract those posts into ...
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How do I add paragraph tags to all of my posts after relying on wpauto?

I found a way to export my posts in text form so that I can move them to a blog with static pages. The only problem is that there are no paragraph tags, so every post is a huge block of text. I had ...
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How can I get an XML export of my 1K+ posts WordPress instance?

I'd like to export my database to XML because the import script to my new blog already supports getting data from that. A database backup or wordpress clone is not that useful in this case. The ...
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Are there any scripts, classes, and/or functions built-in to WP for a plugin to export/import its saved data from wp_options?

In WordPress, are there any supported 'script plugins', Classes, and/or a WordPress function that will allow a plugin to use to export/import its own data from the database to a txt/json file? A way ...
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WordPress custom options storing?

I have a theme with around 500 custom options, their code looks like this: <form method="post" action="options.php"> <?php wp_nonce_field('update-options'); ?> <input type="text" ...
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Wordpress Export Import Site Navigation Menu

When I do an export and import the menus get transferred but I have to set the Site Navigation Menu manualy. Obviously it's only a small detail but can I ask is this a bug or expected behaviour and is ...
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How to export the wordpress gallery only

I trying to export the WordPress galleries but, can't seem to find any functions that do that. I want the data and attachments of the galleries in a WRX Format.
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Import posts with featured images

I am trying to make an import of posts from my old blog installation. It works fine for posts content but fails for featured images. I've done: tools -> export -> posts -> selected a category. In ...
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How to export all content with feature images?

I want to export all content with featured images from my localhost WordPress site to the production blog,but when I tried using the default WordPress export-import plugins ,all content get exported ...
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Lead/contact form export to XML

I have a lead form that I want to send leads to an external CRM in XML format when someone fills it out. Ive looked at most of the popular solutions documentation (Contact form 7, gravity, Wufoo) and ...
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export category and sub-category

I'm trying to export a specific category with it's sub-categories. However, Wordpress export option allows either to export all of the categories or to export one specific category at a time. Is ...
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How to use the WP export and get images that are contained in a posts gallery

I ran the standard wp Export on a single custom post type called products. I got all the custom fields and all that but each cpt has a standard post gallery. The link to the image is not coming ...
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Export blog posts with MathJax to LaTeX document?

I use MathJax to blog my mathematical thoughts. Is it possible to convert my WordPress posts (with plenty of math) into a LaTeX document? The plugin should prompt me to select posts for the paper, and ...
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Buddypress export Profile Fields

I am looking for some help in building a sql to export specific data from the DB. In BuddyPress, I have a profile field set up called Newsletter. I need to export a list of user from the db who have ...
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Create a Static HTML Site from WordPress

A friend of mine is investigating the use of WordPress for a dynamic site with some hierarchy. Really, at the moment he just wants "nothing fancier than photos and links between pages," but knowing ...
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How to migrate Wordpress Blogs into Multisite without using the GUI-Import/Export Feature

I'd like to migrate some quite huge Wordpress-Blogs into one Multisite Installation. The Export-Wizard and the Import Wizard are bound to PHP-Limits (Memory, Execution-Time) and so the Export and ...
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In What WordPress Version Was the Import/Export Tool Introduced?

I was just looking under my "Tools" menu in my WordPress site and noticed the "Export/Import" functions. I was not aware that this was even available and I've been needing it for some time. What ...
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Exporting and Importing WordPress Media Libraries and Galleries

I'm trying to migrate a series of blogs from one place to another, both running 3.0.1, and I am unable to get media libraries and galleries to come across in the export/import process. Any ideas on ...

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