I’m trying to migrate a series of blogs from one place to another, both running 3.0.1, and I am unable to get media libraries and galleries to come across in the export/import process.
Any ideas on how to do this? The gallery shortcode comes across in the post content, but it doesn’t display anything because the actual gallery does not come across.
Thanks,
Dave
Is the migration down to the fact you’re moving servers and/or domains? Or that your merging into another blog?
If the former, you might be better off with a database dump (search and replace old domain with new one if that’s changing too), then import into the new database (along with copying over the filesystem).
If it’s the latter, well, it’s not going to be as easy. Let me know if it is, and we’ll see what we can do 🙂
I had to do something slightly similar, but with just two blogs into a single new blog.
I used the WordPress Export file to import all the data into the new blog. That went fairly smoothly. Naturally the images and stuff are all messed up…
Both my blogs happened to have the WP uploads folder organized by date. I grabbed both folders and merged them into one. I fortunately didn’t run into any duplicated file names.
The URLs were still messed up within the post content. I used the Search Regex to rewrite the urls to the new domain and server path. It was tedious, but I got it done after a few hours.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-regex/
Figured this one out through wp-hackers: http://groups.google.com/group/wp-hackers/browse_thread/thread/cbed2605260efe95
url’s can be quickly changed from old site to a new site with ‘velvet blues update urls’