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Bother [[John Lenz]] to make it 'perty.
Bother [[John Lenz]] to make it 'perty.

==Migration==

Importing content from another Wordpress installation can be done with the '''Tools → Export/Import''' options. Some notes:

* Media files (attachements) will only import from an '''"All content" export'''
** Since "All content" includes elements you might not want to import, like comments or navigation menus, try '''pruning the XML export file''' of those elements before importing
* Posts will maintain their Wordpress '''post IDs''' if possible!


==Addresses (URLs)==
==Addresses (URLs)==

Revision as of 12:50, 23 May 2014

Wordpress notes from the Sagamore Online gang (email • archivessubscribe & more)!

Styling

Bother John Lenz to make it 'perty.

Migration

Importing content from another Wordpress installation can be done with the Tools → Export/Import options. Some notes:

  • Media files (attachements) will only import from an "All content" export
    • Since "All content" includes elements you might not want to import, like comments or navigation menus, try pruning the XML export file of those elements before importing
  • Posts will maintain their Wordpress post IDs if possible!

Addresses (URLs)

Address beautification

Be sure to:

  1. Admin → Settings → Permalinks → Day and name
  2. Then: Custom Structure
  3. Remove the trailing slash

(to get rid of the ugly "?p=#" and default trailing slash)

Change starting post ID

From Sagamore online goals 2014#URL_redirects:

Make the new Wordpress installation use post IDs we haven't used before to avoid collisions (terms and users weren't utilized enough on the old site to bother with), then setup .htaccess redirects from the old to the new as desired.

  1. On the new Wordpress database:
    ALTER wp_posts AUTO_INCREMENT = 2001 ;

Old ideas

Assigning post IDs

Don't use: Although the following is possible, it's probably better to just use redirects for old content (ala Sagamore .htaccess) and make new content use unique post IDs by doing #Change starting post ID.

When importing content, it may be easier for sake of redirecting to assign posts/pages the same ID they had on the export site (especially if the export site exposed IDs in its URL (like the PTA site from 2012-2014)).

Page Tagging & Categories

Of the two default content types in Wordpress, Pages (unlike the other, Posts), cannot have Tags or Categories associated with them by default. It is relatively simple to change that with some code or a simple plugin:

Only add Tags (not Categories) to Pages:

Further Reading