[wp-hackers] Website transfering

[Chip Bennett]

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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