Lost backslashes ( \ ) on import

  • I used the export/import process to merge two blogs into one about a month ago. I just discovered that backslashes are missing in the imported posts. Double-backslash becomes single and single is removed. So a Windows path like

    \\SERVER\Share\File.txt

    appears as

    \SERVERShareFile.txt

    I found a 3-year-old StackExchange article that offers this explanation: “The importer calls wp_insert_post() which runs stripslashes_deep() on the data. But the exporter doesn’t run addslashes. Looks like a bug to me.” There are some suggested workarounds.

    Can anyone confirm that backslashes are dropped on import? Or has that bug been addressed somehow?

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