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Wow, I did not realize how far behind php was on our site. Sorry about that.

Ok, did some serious editing, and it was the line breaks after all. When the data is exported into a serialized array, the line breaks in the content are included as line breaks in the XML and this breaks the array.

Removing all the line breaks allows the tabs to be imported successfully, but obviously without any line breaks that were in the original formatting.

putting \n as a replacement did not work, so I’m going to try other methods to possibly preserve the formatting.

After looking at this https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/88327/importing-from-xml-is-ignoring-serialized-custom-field it seems that importing serialized meta values has issues. I tried debugging the lines with no success.

Then, following one of the suggestions, I copied the postmeta information directly from one database to the other. It worked! This at least gives me a tedious solution.

After the database copy worked, I tried to export the products on the new site to compare the exported data with the original exported data. There didn’t seem to be any differences, but this export also failed to import again. So, this is not an issue of it being a different site at all, because I have tried to export a working tabbed product from the new site, deleted the product completely, and imported the product XML and the tabs again are not imported.

Based off of the linked discussion, I am wondering whether special characters, multiple lines, URLs, or something else is causing the exported information to be regarded as invalid when WP Import attempts to import it again.

I am using the standard WordPress importer.

Yes, I did update to 1.4, and I also tried the same.

I export from the live site, and on the staging version of the site I delete all products and try to import. It looks like all postmeta data for my products is not imported, not only the tabs.

After some further investigation this morning, it seems this is more a problem with default imports and Woocommerce.

Looking at the XML generated by an export, I can see the tabs and data fine for each product. They are listed near the end as <wp:postmeta>. Unfortunately, this data doesn’t seem to be imported in, even though the plugins state that they handle postmeta data.

I’m trying to do more research to see if I can find some way to import the information correctly, but at least it looks like all the tab data is being exported.