I have a development site and a live site where the database differs on 2 weeks(On the development side has been added between new Posts and Pages). What I want now is to export the posts and pages from the live site and import on the development side but without to override the newly created posts and Pages. Is it possible to achieve this with the standard wordpress import export plugin?
The import tool in Wordpress doesn't overwrite your posts and pages, it just adds them to your database. You can read about it on the following topics:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-import-1
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/will-import-over-write-existing-posts
However, it's always a good idea to backup your database before you do it.
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I am using WordPress to build my website
and I want to import users into my website and I am using WP all import plugin for this job but it doesn't work , when I upload my csv file that includes the users, it only imports the first user in the list and I don't know what should I do.
You can use any of these plugins as an alternative. THese are in order of success rate and better functionality.
Import and export users and customers
Import Export WordPress Users and WooCommerce Customers
User Import with meta
I'd recommend the 1st one. It's so far the most simple and powerful.
If SSH is available you can try to use WP-CLI for this job:
Import Users via WP-CLI
I want to import data from an old website into a new Drupal-based website. Both do have a completely different database schema. Can anybody help how can I do that?
Check out on the Migrate module:
https://www.drupal.org/project/migrate
It can import from any kind of DB organization, if you define import rules, but there are also some sub-modules of this module, specialized for i.e. importing from WordPress or another Drupal site, Typo site and similar.
I have to recreate a custom made cms site in Wordpress, I have no access to the old database.
Is there a way, to automatically grab the texts from the old site and insert it in Wordpress maintaining the hierarchy?
Thank you.
You can export posts and pages from old site and import it to new site
using import/export options in wp-admin
Case:
A old website developed with wordpress and run for serveral years.
Now, this wordpress website is giveup and will be re-developed to a new website which is not using wordpress anymore.
Old data i.e. article content, uploaded image file, members' info etc will be migrated to the new website.
Question:
1. Is it any tools for this type of migration?
2. If there is no tool for data transfer and I need to export the content from mysql, where can I get the article content in database?
3. Where can I find the uploaded file?
Data migration is always dependant on two things.
1. If your current framework/CMS can export the data you have, and
2. If the new framework/CMS can import data that you have just exported.
Since both frameworks are different, i.e. WordPress to any other CMS, your new CMS must be able to map the exported XML files. Which means, it must be able to customize the import process to tell what bits of data is Title, Content, Categories etc.
To answer your questions
Is it any tools for this type of migration?
Since you didn't mention what you new framework is, no one can really suggest a tool. Just google for "WordPress to YOUR-NEW-FRAMEWORK migraiton" and you'll get a number of tools. If the new framework is a custom PHP framework then I think you'll have to import the data manually or code an import script for it.
WordPress has a pretty good export tool. Check this page to learn how to export WordPress content.
Where can I find the uploaded file?
The uploaded files are referenced in the exported XML file, so at the time of import anywhere else, they can be fetched and downloaded if you can. Otherwise, you can find them in the uploads directory located at YOUR-SITE-ROOT/wp-content/uploads/
UPDATE:
As you are not targetting any framework/CMS but want to show the data with custom PHP, I'd suggest two methods.
Use the current database that WordPress is using and build your PHP script around it, benefiting from wp_posts and wp_postmeta tables.
A better way to go with this is using the WP REST API. This way, you keep the WordPress installation as is and still use it's data in your custom PHP site. Advantage of this method is that you won't have to bug your mind with scripting around database structures you have less information of.
We are planning to move to new CMS from Drupal to WordPress. While exploring, I came across this site to move the contents if it is stored in git.
But our code base is in SVN, Could anyone suggest what are the best ways I can migrate it from Drupal to Wordpress when codebase is hosted in SVN.It would be good if provided solution does not include purchasing new plugins for migration.
Thanks for help !!!
You can import the contents like articles, pages, categories and images from Drupal to wordpress but not the template so you need to work on template/theme first for wordpress.
Using the following plugin you can directly import contents from you drupal database:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/fg-drupal-to-wp/screenshots/
I have added the plugin link of screenshots as you can see you just need to provide database details and plugin will do the rest.
It is not an easy process to take backup of everything properly before doing the migration.