Rating: 5 stars
Even though the plugin hasn’t been updated for quite a while, it still works great even with the latest WordPress (5.3). Thanks for the development!
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I have some expensive importer/exporter plugins and this was the only one that would move over the images between hosting services and import them into the database without an issue. Nice work!
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I found this plug-in as I was having trouble moving data on a shared server that can not be migrated.
Importing of media that has failed many times is proceeding smoothly.
Thank you for a wonderful plugin !!
Rating: 5 stars
You saved me from a couple of weeks work!
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Thank you so much for sharing this with the WP community. It helped me get around timeouts and so much frustration. I didn’t find any problems with the plugin.
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I`ve been searching for a solution to deal with faulty demo content importing processes, and the Attachment Importer plugin works flawlessly! Literally, it saved me hours of work!
What I would love to see though is an update, just to get rid of that “2 years” notice from the plugin page.
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I am adding this plugin to my arsenal of website development plugins.
I had to transfer post and pages that were previously migrated from an old wordpress structure.
Many media files from the exported website were showing to be an item in the media library however were not in the file structure returning 404 errors which caused the import to be a mess!
I kept having timeout issues when importing the large XML file, I even split it into small 200k files without any luck. This plugin helped me isolate the attachment import process which allowed me to import the whole large XML export XML without attachments. I then imported a separate XML that only contained the attachments for the posts and pages with https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-attachment-export/.
This plugin ran in the background processing the attachment imports without any timeout issues!
Great plugin, please keep updating!
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Error: “There were no attachment files found in the import file.”
Maybe because of Umlaute somewhere in the file …
Rating: 5 stars
i have 800+ posts and 9000+ images, this plugin was right way for me
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This plugin is impressive. Not only does it actually import attachments, unlike the WordPress importer, but it properly attaches them to the right posts (at least, it did for me, I’ve noticed other reviews saying it didn’t). I used this in combination with WP Attachment Export, and for the most part, it worked great.
The only that didn’t work is that, at first, it only saw 179 attachments. I had to edit the WRX file after the first run to delete references to those 179 attachments and after that, the plugin successfully found the remaining 1500 or so. This may be an incompatibility with the latest version of WordPress. Regardless, this tool still saved me a TON of time.
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This saved me from quite a headache. Working with a custom post type containing nearly 1000 posts, all with a very large amount of custom field groups and fields for each, including image attachments that weren’t properly importing with the WP Importer plugin. I ran this right after and it picked up all the image attachments from the .xml file and assigned them appropriately. Huge time saver, thanks!
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Thank u brother, I’ve trying to import all the images. but can’t. After use your plugin. I can import all the images. i am very happy. May Allah bless u
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This, unlike the official WordPress Importer, actually works. If your images are hooped, this is what you need.
As a side note, I had to make use of the Search and Replace Addon to update some links etc. but this got my farther than anything else.
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I have used this on several different sites and never encountered any problems. Thanks for the good work.
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(import_file_error: Remote file is incorrect size)
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I struggled with a troublesome migration, and then found this gem. it would have saved me hours of banging my head against a wall. A much needed companion to the wordpress importer plugin.
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i seldom give comment, nice work!
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This plugin works, but you may need to be aware of a couple of things that can cause it not to work – and then address those things before using this plugin.
The first thing to be aware of is that there is a bug (apparent) in the standard WordPress Export feature that you will use on the source site to export your content.
When using the WordPress Export, the only way to get the media attachments information included in the Export xml file is to select to export “All”. This will export all content in your source site, which may not be what you want, but is what you will have to do if you want to use this plugin to import attachments. If you don’t use the “All” setting during your export, you will get no attachment information included in the export file and then this plugin will tell you that you have no attachments.
Assuming you have an export file that has attachment information in it, then this plugin will work, as long as the source WordPress site is on a server that has an IP address that matches the IP address for the site in the public DNS. This may not be the case if your source server is self-hosted on your own LAN. The plugin will use your internal DNS server and find the source site at an internal private IP address.
This will be a problem because of a WordPress “feature”. WordPress has added to the core at some point a check for whether or not a host is “safe” when using wp_http_get (which is what this plugin uses to fetch the attachment from the source site).
So, on an internal LAN, the wp_http_get will fail everytime until you add a filter to your functions.php file. See this blog post for the filter to add: https://steadman.io/blog/2013/10/31/media-imports-fail-self-hosted-wordpress-sites-same-network/
After encountering and overcoming these two issues, I was able to successfully import 755 image attachments using this tool.
I am giving it 4 stars instead of 5 because it should mention somewhere in the documentation about the bug in the WordPress Export function and that you have to use the export “All” option in order to have a usable XML file for this plugin to properly do its thing.
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Using this plugin to migrate attachments worked like a charm. The only problem I saw, were some missing images due to the fact that upload was made by a user who is no longer assigned to the specific blog in a multisite.
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I don’t know what to say other than it didn’t work… didn’t upload any of my attachments. Failed over and over again.
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This is a great idea for a plugin. Something we’ve needed for a long time!
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My client I developed a theme for was moving off a managed hosting solution. Since it was super cheap hosting he didn’t have access to anything just the WXP export. Crisis averted with Attachment Exporter. Good show!
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Sadly this did not work for us. Error message was “there were no attachment files found in the import file”. Only wish that were true. We have links to about two dozen images in the WXR file, and it doesn’t seem to be able to pick out any of them.
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It worked perfectly for me !
Thanks a lot ! ??
Rating: 5 stars
When trying to upload the demo content for a WP theme with the standard WordPress Importer as well as most of the other importer plugins around I always ended up with a lot of errors and a messed up database because there were too many/too large media files attached to the WXP file.
This plugin saved the day: I just uploaded the xml file, but without the attachments. Then used Attachment Importer to fetch the media files afterwards. Done!
The plugin needs a couple minutes (in my case almost half an hour), depending on the number of media files involved. But is simply works. Should have tried this in the first place. Would have saved me hours of trial and error.
Great plugin. Thanks for this, man!
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