Issue with merging content
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Use Case:
I have two Sites, Alpha and Beta, and I’d like to import the blog posts from Alpha into the site Beta.
Problems arise when media items share ID numbers because WordPress doesn’t update any the new posts with the proper information about the image’s new ID number.
That is, an imported post on the new site will still look like this:
<img class=”alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-18″ src=”https://site.com/beta/files/2016/03/anteater-150×150.jpg” alt=”anteater” width=”150″ height=”150″ />
There are two problems with this:
1) The link still goes to the OLD site, not the site I just imported the post to. This CAN be addressed using some find/replace stuff.2) If you try to edit the image on the new site, you’ll see that WordPress thinks the image is the image with ID# 18, however, anteater.jpg now has a brand new image ID on the site. So if you try to edit the image using the visual editor, for example by setting the link target to be ‘media file’, it will set it to something totally different from the Anteater! (It will use whatever image is actually ID #18 on the site.
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