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Get Wordpress HostingEverybody knows that content, or rather more generally data, is king. It’s what is driving the web. It’s what the web is all about. The web was built to exchange and share content. People go to the web because of content. Pretty much all websites out there work with some form of data. 27% of web is said to be powered by WordPress, a popular Content Management System. So in short, Wordpress is simply a platform that manages content, or data.
This implies that without content Wordpress would be nothing. The web would be nothing. Seriously, what would the web be without content? It seems to me that almost everything, or even all software, or even computers, is just a matter of data manipulation. Data is all that powers any given system or piece of software.
We humans have been creating content and recording it since time immemorial. Articulating our knowledge and passing it to generations or sharing it is a human need. Ancient civilizations made scribes of their experiences and knowledge in massive tomes. In our generation, more and more content is finding its way to the web. Be it in form of eBooks, via blogs or content management systems.
It’s therefore imperative that we don’t lose our data. We have to find a way of always backing up our data. This is the purpose of this lesson. We want to see how to back up our posts with one click of a button. There are full blown backup services and plugins out there, however, we want to start with using the simplest backup method. Simply exporting the posts into an XML file.
We will also explore how to retrieve them. This may sound too simplistic I admit. However, it’s something we can do in seconds. Yet it backups the most important piece of information we have which is our actual content. Themes, plugins and settings are always fine, however, content is the king as we have said. The former is always there waiting to be downloaded and installed.
However, if we lose our precious data, we are talking about losing years of hard work.
So what then is the objective of this lesson? Well:
We’ll be using the Wordpress Importer plugin. Why? Well, because:
Wordpress Importer plugin is available in the wordpress plugins repository for free. So:
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To export your wordpress posts:
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It’s pretty easy to import posts or custom posts in wordpress.
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Assign the author of the posts. You can also just import the posts alongside their original authors.
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Our posts will get imported. Note that if you are importing custom posts then create the post type before importing. Wordpress Importer is not meant to create for you a custom post type, it’s meant to import to an already existing post type.
I imported slightly over a hundred posts in almost a minute, so that’s not a bad performance in my opinion. It does check if a post already exists. The best thing is that it skips it if the post exists. It doesn’t quit. So you avoid a lot of duplicates and can also run it multiple times.
So that’s it, importing and exporting posts. Seems a very simple feature yet quite important. Never should anybody totally lose posts. Obviously this is not a replacement for a proper website backup, but it can supplement one.
This is also something you can do regularly. You can specify a category or tag and generate the backup file. Moreover, you can choose a date range.
Transferring posts between websites has never been so easy. In fact, it’s not that easy in other platforms. Wordpress makes it a piece of cake. It’s even possible to import from other platforms like blogger and tumblr. You can import custom post types too. However, make sure you create the post type before importing. All in all, I have used this plugin to import hundreds of posts in my personal blog, it has saved me a lot of time. It can save you too precious time.
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