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  zilahir · Member · Jan 13, 2019 at 10:49 am

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  Hey!

  We had an old joomla based website in the old ages, and thought it’s time to get the modern stack up and running, which includes a migration of course.

  It was pretty hard, and not even satisfied with the result, but let’s say the new _wp database is good enough to get started.

  I have all the media assets from the old joomla page, and imported all to a localhost wordpress instance (just got one up and running using docker in 1 min which was good enough to create the data for WP ready).

  Then on my localhost wp instance, created an export, and the idea was that this WP exported stuff will be used in the wordpress.com wp import tool, which i did.

  Several questions raised:

  – opening the wp export generated xml, all the url-s are localhost, since my wp instance is on my localhost, this was it’s only purpose, to use the joomla migration.

  – what does the wp import tool does witht the images (if the url-s are good) is it downloading and uploading based on the provided url to my wordpress.com hosted site?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jan 13, 2019 at 1:01 pm

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  Hi there,

  opening the wp export generated xml, all the url-s are localhost, since my wp instance is on my localhost

  That is expected, yes. The importer automatically updates all post and page permalinks, and media library URLs upon import. Internal links, however, e.g. posts linking to other posts on the same site, won’t be updated automatically. To update those you’ll need to edit each post manually after the import.

  what does the wp import tool does witht the images

  Normally the importer will go look for the images in the media library of the original site based on the image URLs in the posts, and then import them to the media library from there. However, this will not work when importing from a local-hosted site, as that site is not online so there is no online location where the importer can access and import those images.

  In other words, when importing an export file generated from a local-hosted site, media files will not be imported. Importing media files require that you are importing from a site that is accessible online at the time of import.

  In your case it would be better to set up a WordPress site using the open source version from WordPress.org with a hosting provider that offers FTP access. Then you can upload your entire local site directly to your hosting provider’s servers, rather than using the WordPress importer.