{"id":112593,"date":"2023-01-19T18:25:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T18:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpsimplefix.com\/?p=112593"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:42:05","slug":"transfer-posts-and-attachments-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/transfer-posts-and-attachments-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer Posts and attachments in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why would I need to move blog entries? The domain of your website may have changed, you may have created a new website, or you may just be switching from another service to WordPress.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/export-media-with-selected-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>Export media with selected content<\/b><\/a> plugin (I\u2019ve personally tried this, and it works wonders) and install it on the website with the blog posts and images.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/export-media-with-posts-1024x655.png\" alt=\"export-media-with-posts\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/export-media-with-posts-1024x655.png 1024w, https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/export-media-with-posts-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/export-media-with-posts-768x491.png 768w, https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/export-media-with-posts-1536x983.png 1536w, https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/export-media-with-posts-2048x1310.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>To export the blog-posts, tick &#8220;<strong>Export Media with selected content<\/strong>&#8221; and select a data Range, If Required. Then, on your new website, go to\u00a0posts Importer.<\/p>\n<h2>Importing<\/h2>\n<p>To import the blog-posts, head over to your new website. Then go to tools &gt; Import.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tools-import.png\" alt=\"tools-import\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tools-import.png 642w, https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tools-import-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Then install the WordPress Import feature. After install, it will change to <strong>run importer<\/strong>, click it.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/install-importor-1024x669.png\" alt=\"install-importor\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/install-importor-1024x669.png 1024w, https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/install-importor-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/install-importor-768x502.png 768w, https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/install-importor-1536x1004.png 1536w, https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/install-importor.png 1837w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Then upload the file you generated from the first website, and click &#8220;<strong>Upload File and Import<\/strong>&#8221; The maximum file-size limit may vary depending on your PHP settings, you can change this by following <a href=\"https:\/\/wpsimplefix.com\/blog\/how-to-change-php-settings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this guide<\/a>. Make sure it is more than the file&#8217;s size.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/upload-import-file-1024x271.png\" alt=\"upload-import-file\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/upload-import-file-1024x271.png 1024w, https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/upload-import-file-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/upload-import-file-768x203.png 768w, https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/upload-import-file-1536x407.png 1536w, https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/upload-import-file.png 1979w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Once the upload is complete, you&#8217;re finished. You now have your blog posts images and any other media on your new website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why would I need to move blog entries? The domain of your website may have changed, you may have created a new website, or you may just be switching from another service to WordPress. Download the Export media with selected content plugin (I\u2019ve personally tried this, and it works wonders) and install it on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[17,18,19,20,7],"class_list":["post-112593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-attachments","tag-blog","tag-posts","tag-transfer","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136765,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112593\/revisions\/136765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}