problem with import and export
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To start off, a friend of mine asked me to help him with a previously created homepage(not by me) for his restaurant. He had recently updated the menu and I agreed to help. I have never had anything to do with creating web pages, but since the menu on the page was just an image file, I imagined that it wouldn’t be too hard to upload an updated version of menu and then somehow find a way to change the link so that the new image could be seen instead. Then I received the link with the site address(followed by wp-login.php) with the username & password. Sounded simple, but it really wasn’t, as I later learned. I had some unclear security issues uploading the image, but after an whole hour of struggling I finally got the image to the media library. Then it took me several more hours just to find a way for something so simple: look for the link to the old menu image on the very front page(together with 4 other links), and then direct the link to the newer image. After all that wasted time I had become desperate, not letting myself to quit no matter what. After trying everything I could think of, as a last resort, I exported the XML file to my computer, opened it in notepad and with the help of ctrl+f I searched for the old link and replaced all of them with the link of the updated menu(for some reason the image was mentioned in 4 or 5 places). Then I exported it back (using the “tools” that the admin user that i was logged on to, provided me with) again to put the updated version to use. It may sound like an awfully witty idea, but it didn’t really do the trick? The 5 links: home page, menu, news, gallery and contact are now(after importing edited XML file) all represented twice on the home page. In addition there appears to be that some old news links are down, which is not too much of an issue. On the bright side, one of the 2 menu links now directs me to my updated menu image. So I am probably in a wrong place telling my sad story, but if anyone knows any way to reverse my actions or if possible, or if possible just make it so that there wouldn’t be two of each links, I would be greatly thankful.
Oh, and still I have the originally exported XML file unedited on my PC, but I don’t really dare to try and import it one more time, for being afraid that then I would have tripled the number of links or even worse.
I hope that my story wasn’t too complicated, but since the page wasn’t originally created by me, I have literally no clue about anything whatsoever. As a conclusion, all i can say is that it is FAR more complicated than it needs to be.
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