Migration update: try this importer

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The importer is largely unchanged from last week, with the exception of a few UIUI User interface changes:

~~#341~~: Progress for posts/attachments/menu items is now shown correctly (in %d of %d format)
~~#342~~: The debug view (showing the raw data) now uses print_r through a special chars filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output.
~~#340~~: UI now has full-sentence strings to communicate how the process works and when the import is done, and Refresh/Abort buttons are shown above and below the progress.

I’ve also had the chance to run it against a large number of import files, including ones sent to me by generous volunteers who read some of my previous weekly updates (props @tieptoep). No catastrophes, yet!

Obviously, it’s still a work in progress, but I’m now willing to risk a public betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process.. The usual disclaimers (please don’t use this on a production siteProduction Site A production site is a live site online meant to be viewed by your visitors, as opposed to a site that is staged for development or testing.) apply.

download it: wordpress-importer-1.0.0-beta.zip (GPG sig); or
check it out from SVN.

Although I’m not aware of any other plugins that build on the WXR importer through its APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways., I nevertheless generated some PHPDoc API documentation using phpDocumentor 2, which might be handy if you decide to hook into this or reuse its components.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the interface, on the general experience using this importer, and any errors or warnings that you encounter. Thanks!

#importers, #migration-portability, #weekly-update

thisislawatts 9:45 am on August 7, 2013

Really excited about this pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, it’s development seems to coincide with my needing to transfer 6 WordPress blogs(~600 posts each) into 2. So you can only imagine my joy!

I have downloaded the betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. above I don’t seem to get anything beyond the initial ‘Import Status’, which shows how many posts it’s got to import, then clicking ‘Refresh’ I get -> http://thisis.la/pix/of-course.png. I am not sure what it’s doing here. I am running this on XAMPP so could it be an issue with the Cron not running? If you could point me towards a useful debugging point I will tell you every

Then a second though on the UIUI User interface, these blogs that I am importing have a stack of users, which typically result in -> http://thisis.la/pix/wordpress-import-assign.png. And that is super boring to fill in, so I created a quick JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. snippet to go through and autofill those values. https://gist.github.com/thisislawatts/6163831. Thinking it would be great if those usernames wrapped in ()’s were also wrapped in a span to spare my messy regex.

Thanks
- Frederick Ding 7:13 pm on August 7, 2013
  
  Thanks for trying it out! I expected there to be some problems, so let’s see if we can figure out what’s going on 🙂
  
  Since you mentioned using XAMPP, I imagine it to be this scenario: On local installations (especially with hostnames that do not resolve in DNSDNS DNS is an acronym for Domain Name System - how you assign a human readable address to a website’s exact numeric coded location (ie. wordpress.org uses the actual IP address 198.143.164.252).), cron theoretically falls back to “alternative cron” mode. I haven’t yet tested with alternative cron; most likely it’s redirecting the adminadmin (and super admin) user right after clicking on “Refresh”, and that fails to pass on the nonce. I think this is what’s happening. Let me try it out on a local installLocal Install A local install of WordPress is a way to create a staging environment by installing a LAMP or LEMP stack on your local computer. and see what happens.
  
  The JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. for prefilling users is a good idea, although it can also be done server-side. (It currently uses wp_dropdown_users(), which can pre-select a user.) Aside from this, I’d be fine with including the usernames in a data-* attribute; it’d make this a lot easier.
  
  Edit: I’ve added a new TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. for this enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. in GSoC #346; it’s related to previous requests that were punted (#8455, #16148).
TCBarrett 2:21 pm on August 14, 2013

This looks great. One of the problems with exporting is that you cannot export a single post type with attachments, it has to be all or nothing. Does this solve that problem? Or is there an equivalent project?

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