Is ‘WordPress Import’ working?

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  raymondlam2014 · Member · Sep 27, 2018 at 3:30 am

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  Dear Sir / Madam,

  I have to edit a lot of posts content so I decided to export the posts as .xml to improve the efficiency. Afterthat, I use the ‘Tools -> Import -> WordPress’ to upload my new POSTS.XML.

  A few minutes later, an ‘Import successful’ email sent to me but there is no change on any post content.

  Thanks.

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  torres126 · Member · Sep 27, 2018 at 6:36 am

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  Hi there, I’ve tagged WordPress.com staff to help you with this issue. You’ll likely receive a response within a few hours from a staff member: https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question

  Hope this gets resolved soon. :)

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  melancholia · Member · Sep 27, 2018 at 7:42 am

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  As far as I can tell from digging around here and in WordPress.org’s support, it seems the importer will only import new posts, it won’t update existing posts.

  There are some coding workarounds for WordPress.org installations, but for a WordPress.com site I think you’ll find that your easiest (possibly only) option will be to trash all of your existing posts before running the importer in order for the importer to actually grab your changes.