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Importing Content and Migrating Sites

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If you’re switching to WordPress from some other platform, you probably need to import some content. There is a plethora of WordPress plugins to import content from other blogging and content management systems. In addition, the WordPress API makes it relatively easy to import content from any MySQL-based content management system.

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    http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content

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    http://yoast.com/importing-from-another-mysql-into-wordpress

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    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post

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    http://interconnectit.com/124/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases

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© 2013 Stephanie Leary

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Leary, S. (2013). Importing Content and Migrating Sites. In: WordPress for Web Developers. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5867-4_10

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