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I want to export all navigation menu's from one site and import the menu's in another site. I have tried to export the tables:

  • wp_posts
  • wp_postmeta
  • wp_terms
  • wp_termmeta
  • wp_term_relationships

And import them in another database. This does not seem to work. Can someone point me in the right direction?

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  • WordPress has an Import/Export tool, but it doesnt works with nav menus only, you can try this plugin so the Menu option shows in Export
    – David Lee
    Feb 10, 2017 at 13:15
  • @DavidLee - Thanks for the suggestion, Although the plugin has not been updated in 6 years. It still does the job. Problem solved!
    – Gert-Jan Kooijmans
    Feb 10, 2017 at 14:29
  • yeah, i had the same task before, let me put this in an answer.
    – David Lee
    Feb 10, 2017 at 14:50

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WordPress has an Import/Export tool, but it doesn't works with nav menus only, the "All Content" option will export the menus too, but with everything else that is in your site (including posts/pages in the trash) you can try this plugin so the Menu option shows in the Export page.

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  • The plugin listed above has not been updated for 9 years. Here is a plugin Export Import Menus (I have not yet tried it), that is more recent (as of this post, it was last updated 3 months ago, tested up to WP 5.4.4)
    – SherylHohman
    Dec 12, 2020 at 6:13
  • NOTE: it appears to import/export based on the post id. (menus and menu items are posts).If migrating to a different site, this may cause issues, but might be OK between LIVE-DEV sites SOMETIMES - if there will not be any post id collisions. It is a shame WP cannot natively export/import the menus separately. It looked like parsing the xml file for menu items would be difficult. On such a large export file, it would at best be slow trying to edit mine.
    – SherylHohman
    Dec 12, 2020 at 6:22
  • Oh, I found another plugin, more recent (3 weeks ago, tested up to WP 5.6). Again, I have not yet tried it. WPS Menu Exporter
    – SherylHohman
    Dec 12, 2020 at 6:26
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You can use the tool from this site, https://caskispace.com/wp-export-file-parser/

It's not perfect but it does the job and can save a lot of time and effort. If it wasn't able to get the URL for a particular menu item it says so so you can update manually. As for the menu structure and everything it works really well.

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