[wp-hackers] Website transfering

[Jonny Cauvain]

That's exactly what I did Chip, but everytime there have been a few images
that I've had to alter manually.

On Aug 27, 2011 5:03 PM, "Chip Bennett" <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>
> You *shouldn't* have had to, if:
>
> 1) All images were *attached* to the posts, rather than linked, and
> 2) You enable the checkbox to download/attach all attachments on import
>
> Chip
>
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Jonny Cauvain <furcifer at furcifer.me
>wrote:
>
> > Not quite, john, I've had to manually change picture links in posts more
> > than once.
> > On Aug 26, 2011 11:01 PM, "John Blackbourn" <johnbillion+wp at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On 26 August 2011 22:27, Pasquale Puzio <pasquale.puzio at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> I would move a website from a folder (initially called "beta") into
> > another
> > >> folder.
> > >>
> > >> In theory this operation is very simple in post and page contents
there
> > are
> > >> a lot of images with the old path and I would avoid manually editing
all
> > >> posts and pages replacing the old path with the new one.
> > >>
> > >> Someone of you has some suggestion for me?
> > >
> > > Someone will probably correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm fairly sure
> > > this is all handled by the WordPress export and import system, so it
> > > might be easiest to use that. When you import a WordPress XML file
> > > it'll replace all instances of the domain name you're exporting from
> > > with the domain name you're exporting to.
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