WordPress Import Not Working – Photos Not Attached to Posts

  • mcography

    (@mcography)


    12 years ago

    Hello all. I’m in the process of rebuilding my website, and I want to import my old posts from my wordpress.com blog so that I can fill out my new blog and use the old posts for testing. I signed into my wordpress.com blog, went to Tools > Export, and performed a full export. Then I signed into the admin area of my new site, went to Tools > Import, and tried to import the XML file, but the importer isn’t working properly. The first time, it imported about a third of the photos. The second time another third. Then I tried importing it with the ‘import attachments’ box unchecked, and that imported the posts but none of the photos are attached to the posts.

    As far as I can tell, all of the content has been imported, but I don’t really want to have to go through and manually insert all of the photos to the proper posts. How can I get this to work? The XML file is only 779 KB, so file size is not an issue.

    Here’s my site if you want to have a look.

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  • Thread Starter mcography

    (@mcography)

    I found a splitter here, but the smallest increment it will split into is 1 MB. My file is only 779 KB, so that won’t really work. Any other ideas?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    You could talk to your hosts and ask them if they can temporarily raise the PHP script timeout on your site to allow you to get the import done.

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