Import Issue from 3.1-rc2 hosted version
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I am trying to import my self-hosted wordpress site, but I’m running into an issue. Over the years the site has bounced between Movable Type (originally), WordPress.com, & self-hosted wordpress based on my needs & now I hope to bring it back to WordPress.com.
The issue is when I import the site, everything looks complete, but the post->category & post->tag ties are non-existent. Everything is in Uncategorized.
I tried cleaning up my self-hosted DB before exporting (cleaned out old UTW data from postmeta & restructured categories for simplicity), but nothing has worked. I then examined the XML & I noticed one difference specifically related to categories (and guessing the same applies to tags):
3.1-rc2 export:
<category domain=”category” nicename=”miscellanea”><![CDATA[Miscellanea]]></category>
wordpress.com export:
<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
<category domain=”category” nicename=”uncategorized”><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>So, for my self-hosted export, only one category-related tag is present, but exporting out of wordpress.com, there are two category tags for each post. Does wordpress.com key off the simpler “<category><![CDATA[FOO]]></category>” tag for importing?
Just trying to discover the issue & resolve it.
I did speak with Andrew@Support about this, but he ended up suggesting I post here…
Any ideas?
Thanks,
BillThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Really? If he can’t help you, I’m afraid I can’t either, except to suggest you use the bulk Category editor.
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Have you tried asking at WordPress.org forums – seems I remember several threads about export / import issues when I was self hosted – some real sharp folks over there.
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So far, no one has been able to help…
In my own testing, I’ve confirmed that at least with my export data, wordpress.com CANNOT successfully import a file from self-hosted wordpress.org 3.1 site. The category & tag associations will be lost in the import unless the file is manually edited to add in the approprtiate lines such as:
<category><![CDATA[foo]]></category>
<category domain=”tag”><![CDATA[bar]]></category><category> tags with the nicename option seem to be ignored.
This seems like a fairly big issue to me that needs to be addressed for the community, but I’m focusing on cleaning up my data with some perl code…
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I wonder if the recent work WP has done on itself would resolve this. Try again after the 2nd with a brand-new export file and there’s a chance this is one of those things the crew fixed in the background.
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I grabbed a new export tonight from my site & tried the upload this evening with the same results. From my view, this issue still exists. I keep wondering if I’m doing something wrong as I would think others would be experiencing the same thing, but so far I can’t find anyone else with the same issue…
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The thread has been flagged for staff attention. I’m sure they’ll want to look at this again.
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@billvinson, update the 3.1 rc2 install to the full 3.1 version (after making a full backup, database and all) and then export from that and try importing. Perhaps it was something in rc2 that is causing the issue and it is not putting out a clean export file.
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Sorry, I should have stated it, but I did my testing with 3.1 final. No change at all in behavior…
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Well then, I’m afraid staff is going to be the only hope. This has been tagged for their attention, so hopefully they will respond soon and get this straightened out.
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