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How to show a splash screen from my plugin?
I am writing a plugin that user can import Wordpress XML files remotely. And in my environment I decided (described below) to postpone the process till the first visit. The importing process works ...
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How can I migrate (export and import) wordpress users without loosing their password?
I must migrate from one page to another and the customer want me to keep the password. But as their are im MD5 and salted, I don't know how to proceed. Does anyone know it?
Thank you a lot for your ...
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How to export post 2 posts Wordpress plugin data [closed]
I have an old website which uses the post 2 posts plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-to-posts). The plug in has been used to set up many relationships between custom post types.
However I am ...
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WooCommerce - Importing Variations With Non-Latin Attributes
I hope this is relevant here:
I am trying to import variations with attributes which are written in non-latin characters (Hebrew). When I am trying to import x variations for a certain product I see ...
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Importing CSV into database table not working?
global $wpdb;
if (isset($_POST["import"])) {
$fileName = $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"];
if ($_FILES["file"]["size"] > 0) {
$file = fopen($fileName, "r");
while (($column = fgetcsv($file, ...
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Extending the woocommerce product export functionality
according to:
Woocommerce add extra field to variation product
I can add additional fields to my variations. The question is, how can I export or import them via the build in importer/exporter.
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WordPress importer - How to handle id clashes for featured images
I am facing a wired issue where the featured image is not getting updated properly if the id of the attachment was updated during import
Here is the scenario.
Assume that you have exported content ...
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Hook/filter WordPress Importer plugin?
I have a large .xml (WXR) export from a historic WordPress site (6,000+ posts).
I have installed the WordPress Importer plugin, and I'm able to use it to import the file.
Whilst all posts' text gets ...
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Importing existing s3 Media into WP
I'm just beginning to learn my way around WP development, having just taken over development of an old non-WP site that had 1000s of media (mostly audio) files stored on S3.
For new uploads I was ...
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How to import several big Import XMLs?
I have a dump of old site content from three years ago which I now need to get back up on my new site.
At the time, I was told this was a "WP XML" backup, which I took to mean the kind of thing you ...
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Output Post with ACF Fields into other Post
I got a post that should be embeded, included or outputted - however you call it - into another post.
I prefer a solo code variant.
So far I have tested various shortcode plugins - but they don't ...
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After imorting posts from another blog double line breaks have been replaced with single line breaks
i wonder if anyone else has had this problem and knows how to fix it.
After importing all posts from my old wordpress installation, using the default xml import tool, all double line breaks have been ...
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How to handle a CSV with 65,000+ rows and make it searchable?
I have a csv of 65,000+ rows. Each row only has two fields, an ID code and a Description. This csv will get updated every year or so. The users needs to be able to type in the code and get a list of ...
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Programatically import custom fields using wp all import [closed]
I have a csv with a lot of custom fields that I need to import. It would take too much time to manually set up the fields using the interface and it also is not very client friendly to ask them to ...
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How to set the WordPress logo programmatically with PHP
I am working on a WordPress theme. We implemented "One Click Demo Import" for the theme users to quickly populate their new blank theme with some dummy data.
My question is, how can I set the logo of ...
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Moving website from localhost to existing website without altering existing live theme
Current situation :
I have wordpress website called publishingnext.in which is hosted on one.com
I have built another complete website on localhost called conference.
What i want guidance for:
I ...
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Import post from XML files into custom post type programatically [closed]
How can i import post from XML file programatically in to custom post type without using any type of plugin in wordpress?
Thanks in advance
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Best way to export real estate listings from one website to several others?
I own many real estate websites on Wordpress. One of them is the main one which contains the listings. How do I make the other websites automatically fetch new listings from the main one?
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How to export post meta with images in wordpress
Hi i have a custom post type in my two websites and i have to to export all posts in that post type and import to second site .
So my post type is "products" . Actually i can use wordpress default ...
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Import download attachment from woocommerce product
I am doing a migration from a wordpress/woocommerce website, I've successfully export/import all the data except one thing :
the download attachment file from my woocommerce product
I'm using the wp-...
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Huge category CSV import does not work
I have a 1.5 MB (with about 20.000 line) CSV file and I would like to import this into my new WordPress site. The code below does not create all of the categories, only some of them. I already ...
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How can I export and then import posts with featured images?
I'd like to move a set of posts from one wordpress site to another.
WordPress has a native export tool that allows posts to be exported. But this tool doesn't preserve featured images.
I'm aware ...
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Trouble migrating custom post types from non-wordpress cms
I am working on migrating over some custom post types from a non-wordpress cms that we will call "shows." I am using a script in functions.php to try and accomplish this, but I am having trouble. I ...
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Importing Media IDs but not related attachment
When importing media to a live site that was exported from a local environment, I tried uploading the uploads folder to a temporary location and then updated the XML to the new paths. It worked for a ...
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How to make bulk changes to wordpress posts
Part way through developing my WP blog, I changed from HTTP to HTTPS. I followed the instructions I found as best as I could, but ended up with a bunch of old permalinks that are all insistent on ...
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How to add an import widgets functionality to wordpress themes without a plugin
I am trying to add one click demo install functionality to my themes. I have been able to add content and customizer options so far; but I am stuck at importing widgets.
I have been following this ...
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How to force update all posts after import
I recently imported large number of custom posts into wordpress. all works fine, except one taxonomy which is imported, but not show at the front end, until i click on every post "update" button. I ...
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Moving media between blogs changes the URL subdirectory [closed]
On wordpress.com, I'm exporting media from one blog and import it into another.
Problem: On the source blog, some media files are e.g. in Folder "2014/02", but they get imported into folder "2014/03"....
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Moving Featured Images
I have been moving around 40k posts from one site to another (different domains), using wp cli, all went well, but it seems the featured image weren't imported.
I have now uploaded all media files ...
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Beginner question: Accessing functions.php through admin web interface in order to import custom post types?
Is it possible to access the functions.php file just by using the admin web interface? I'm trying to access previously created (manually coded) custom post types and I'm having to jump through a lot ...
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Import menu tree to custom menu from csv or xml, many nested menu points
what would you recommend to import about 6000 menu items (yes it is ab big catalog with many nested categroies, depth about 6) to a custom menu in Wordpress.
I have a text file with the following ...
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Convert bookmarks.html file into WP posts
Bit of a long shot but wondering if someone can point me in the right direction for how this could be achieved.
My plan is to build a font end importer / uploader possibly using ACF, where a user can ...
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What’s the fastest way to import products with variations in WooCommerce (CSV, XML, …) [closed]
I’m setting up an onlineshop for a customer and I’m at a point I need some advice from you.
I have about 4,000 products to import into my WooCommerce shop (using version 3.2.6). Each of the 4,000 ...
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How can I import a Storify story into Wordpress
Storify is going. It is possible to export your stories, one at a time, and if using HTML format, they can be hosted and included in a wordpress post/page using an <iframe> tag.
This is ugly ...
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Trying to get production WooCommerce customer/order data to dev site
I'm trying to get customer data and orders from a production site to a new dev site (production data, but 3 months old). The dev site is totally new, the only data I want from production is: users, ...
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Pull specific data from CSV
I'm building a website, and client has specific request. Open source app has .csv file providing bunch of data. They want to pull some fields from that csv and to place it in on wordpress website.
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Merge two wordpress sites
I have been looking for an way to export 40.000 posts and 20.000 media files from one wordpress site (site A) to another site (site B). Site B already have data.
If I do a export and import directly ...
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Add srcset and sizes to older uploads?
I’m having an issue with an older site that I’m moving to the new server.
There was no way to import attachments so I had to /uploads/ to new server via FTP. Then I’ve imported images with wp cli’s ...
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Import (XML/WXR) fails on some posts
I'm importing from a third party system, for which I've written an export script. When running tests on a clean install, approximately 10% of posts fail to import. All other posts import fine, ...
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Import WordPress, Failed to import sizes
Have an odd problem trying to use wordpress importer.
Export posts from live site, try to import to new site but no media is imported.
I just get this-
Failed to import sizes medium
Failed to ...
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How do I upload existing wordpress file to my desktop dashboard?
I've a rookie question. I'm new to WP and need to work on someone's site. How do I have all the files in a *.zip format but not in the *.XML format it seems is required to run a direct import.
I'm ...
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Can we use featured image as third party website image URL
In my case we are getting some post list from third party and import in our custom post type.
My question is, Is we can use post featured image as third party website image URL instead of upload ...
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Batch Import Script Image Problem
I am developing an external php script with the use of wordpress core to batch import some custom post type posts into the wordpress.
I am facing a problem of images that are imported are not ...
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Import only new articles from Joomla to Wordpress
Is there a way to only import articles created in Joomla after a specific date to Wordpress?
I'm trying to export only articles made in Joomla after a certain date to wordpress. Currently, we have ...
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how do i import a site given that i have [domain].sql and a folder of site files? [closed]
I have my own (Linux-based) in-house wp server with multisite configuration, and I need to migrate to this server from a hosting company. they have provided me with 2 things:
[domain].sql and
a [...
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Imported wordpress blog uploads media but doesn't change the image links
I exported all the wp blog posts using the default wordpress export tool.
Then i imported the xml file using the default import tool. There were 2 xml files in the zip file which I extracted. I ...
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Import settings from another theme
I have a question. I am trying to make a theme compatible with another one. For example if you have this theme named "old theme" and you change it to "new theme", options from customizer will remain ...
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Connection refused on locahost after importing database?
I'm using Wordpress Instant for my development environment. It's a portable dev environment that allows me to run a local wp install off a usb, so it's portable and I can take it from one computer to ...
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Import users from old WP site to new one
I want to import existing users with their passwords from an old WordPress site to a new one. The new WordPress installation has also existing users. Therefore I couldn't simply export/import the ...
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import user info csv
I want to import user information using csv file.
I use BP-Groups-Import-User plugin.
The challenge is to add column first name and last name in csv file but i can not get the value to store.
my ...
