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Exporting/Importing WordPress Data

Lesson 44 from: WordPress for Photographers

Justin Seeley

Exporting/Importing WordPress Data

Lesson 44 from: WordPress for Photographers

Justin Seeley

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Lesson Info

44. Exporting/Importing WordPress Data

Lessons

Class Trailer

Day 1

1

What Can WordPress Do?

07:49
2

WordPress.com vs WordPress.org

10:41
3

Domains and Hosting

08:14
4

Domains Q&A

10:00
5

Demo: 1-Click Install on HostGator

08:53
6

Audience Q&A

38:03
7

WordPress Dashboard Oveview

32:31
8

WordPress Dashboard: Settings

33:22
9

Audience Q&A

03:42
10

Working with Posts

33:44
11

Working with Pages

30:46
12

Audience Q&A

34:57
13

Using WordPress Plug-ins

44:26
14

WordPress Themes

27:13
15

Final Q&A

04:05

Day 2

16

Managing Your Media

35:20
17

Managing Your Media Q&A

05:48
18

Working with Video

09:39
19

Top 5 Photo Plug-ins

19:57
20

Top 5 Themes for Video

13:56
21

Top 5 Video Plug-ins

10:37
22

Creating a Discussion

09:53
23

Moderating Comments

12:26
24

Creating Ratings and Polls

11:27
25

Purchasing a Theme

17:58
26

Customizing a Theme

08:23
27

Editing Code for Non-Geeks

24:54
28

Customizing Themes Q&A

07:43
29

CSS Crash Course

24:15
30

Using the WordPress Codex

13:13
31

Creating and Using Menus

08:28
32

Lightbox Plugins

13:13
33

WordPress Codex, Menus and Plugins Q&A

08:43
34

General WordPress Q&A

10:17
35

Optimizing Images for the Web in Photoshop

32:30
36

Optimizing Images Q&A

10:56
37

Displaying High Resolution Images on the Web

11:35

Day 3

38

Protecting Images Online

22:06
39

Adding Watermarks

17:56
40

Copywriting Images

08:40
41

SEO 101

24:00
42

Engaging Your Audience

05:26
43

URL Shortening

09:54
44

Exporting/Importing WordPress Data

10:33
45

Backing Up WordPress

13:26
46

Security 101

24:20
47

Spotting Trustworthy Themes/Plugins

24:32
48

Trustworthy Themes/Plugins Q&A

21:13
49

Battling Spam

18:38
50

Dealing with a Hacked Site

15:41
51

Protecting Your Site

10:46
52

Using Web Fonts

24:08
53

Web Fonts Q&A

11:36
54

Thanks + Credits

04:04
55

Monetizing Your Content

24:55
56

Final Q&A

28:31

Lesson Info

Exporting/Importing WordPress Data

we're gonna go into protecting your site. Right? So the very first part of this, I'm gonna show you how to get data out of WordPress. I'm sure to get data in toward press. OK, so inside of your WordPress installation, you have the ability to import data or export data. And when you export out data, I'm not talking about the site itself. WordPress, by itself does not back itself up. Okay, Does not back itself up. But you can export out the data that's in there like the post data, the page data, the comments and files. When you export that out, you can then import that into another WordPress installation. It does not come with the theme does not come with the plug ins. It does not come with any of the other customization is that you have. It's only the content of the post, the content of the pages and the files, the images or whatever that you might have attachments so forth. So, in order to export something out of wordpress, what you're going to do is go to the tools menu and you're gon...

na choose export. Now, the question that's probably on a lot of he was mine. Why would I ever want to export something out of WordPress? Well, if you're going from one WordPress install to another and you just need they're like, OK, for instance, I used to run a site, a business site, and on that business side, I had a blawg. And, uh, I did a lot of, you know, quote unquote business tips through that block. Well, when I was going to shut that down because I had taken a full time job, I was no longer doing the freelance stuff. I wanted to take those block posts and implement them on my personal site. So I exported out all of the post content from that particular site and then imported into my personal site. That way they go. They come back in at the same date of published, the same comments, the same images, the same writing. Everything comes in and it just flows naturally into the look and feel of my other side. So you have the choice when you go to export tax poured out all of the content, and this tells you it contains all of your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, terms, navigation, menus and custom posts. You can Onley choose to do post, and you can also choose to only do pages if you wish. When you click on these, you'll notice you get options so that you can choose between all of the categories or only certain categories or what have you. So, for instance, let's say that you have a guest blogger on your on your blog's or, you know your company has somebody coming into a block post. That blogger comes to you ah, year later and said, You know what? I really like a copy of the block post that I wrote for you so that I could put it on my site. Theoretically, you could just tell them to, you know, go take a hike because they don't know how to copy and paste. But, um e mean, really. But let's say theoretically, you could just say OK, so you know, Justin was the guest author. Let's just pick every post by Justin and let's export that file. Then I can send them that export file, and they have the free range to import that into any WordPress installation that they choose to, or if you're just trying to back yourself up, for instance, on my site, and I'm gonna show you how I do scheduled backups here in just a moment. But on my site, I have it so that almost daily my posts and my stuff are backed up. I have it set up so that a lot of stuff is backed up on a weekly basis on a monthly basis, etcetera. So, you know, doing this is step one in securing your content, cause it ensures that that content doesn't go away. If you've got a zip file that has all this information and it, nobody can take that away from you. Unless, of course, you lose it. And that's why we come to my rule of three. If it doesn't exist in three places, it doesn't exist. So and one of those places is not your blawg. Okay, because if your blood goes down, I mean, you're just out of luck. So where do you store these things? Where do you put them? Well, I number one I store things in an off site location like Amazon is three or somewhere like that. Dropbox, for instance. I also store on an external hard drive, and I also store on a CD or DVD. Now that's going the way of the dodo CD and DVD back up. I'm gonna have to find another solution for that. I'm of the opinion that eventually none of our computers will have an optical disk drive whatsoever. Um, seriously, I mean, look at what Apple's doing with the Mac book air. You know, you have to pay 20 bucks just to get a DVD reader on the thing. Eventually, we won't have it. They took the floppy disk away. First, they'll be the first to take away the seedy romp drive to you are going to get, um, so and I'm not switching to PC. Uh, so, um, you know, when that happens, I'm gonna need to find another place for that. Whether that's like carbonite backup or Apple's ICloud or racks base, whatever that might be, I'm gonna have to find another area to put that in right now. I also use thumb drives, surely to goodness they're not gonna take us be away from me anytime soon. But you know, thumb drives are another great way to do that. External hard drives that run on a USB, but the point of having it in three different places is so that you have three different ways to, you know, back yourself up. Because if my website gets hacked, that's okay. I've still got my hard drive. My, you know, my cloud storage and my thumb drive. If I lose my thumb drive, that's cool. I've still got the other ones. If I if my hard drive, you know, if I set my apartment on fire again, I I only lose the hard drives. I don't lose the cloud stuff. Right? Um, hopefully the cloud services don't just decide to flip a switch and turn that off one of these days. I mean, who knows? You know, all these people offer the stuff for pennies on the dollar and cheap, cheap, cheap. I keep going back to the fact that that makes me a little nervous. But, uh, so if it doesn't exist in three places, it doesn't exist. Let's download this file. Okay, so I'm gonna download all the content, is gonna go through, and it's going to get that for me, and you can see it's not very big. And when it comes out Look what it comes out as it comes out as an XML file. And a lot of people are gonna look at that you like, huh? Why, XML, my images aren't stored in there, and you're absolutely right there. Not. So here's the problem with the WordPress export tool as it exists right now, when you export out WordPress data, all it does is export out links to your images. It does not download the images for you. So when you import this into another wordpress installation, it will say, Do you want to download and incorporate all of the images and links accordingly into this site as well? You will say, yes, you do, and then it will have to manually go and download each individual image and put it into your install. If your site is hosed and you can't get a hold of those images, or if you're a dummy like me and you accidentally deleted the image directory like I did a couple of years ago, you're out of luck. It's not gonna work, so you know that that's that's a way to get the data out. But it's not the complete solution to get the data out. We're gonna talk about the complete solution in a minute. All right, let's say that I wanted to import this data somewhere. Okay, let's go into Ah, it's going to one of my other sites here. Opinion. All right, so let's go into this site. This light doesn't really have any continent. As of right now, make sure I'm on the right poster. Okay? So you can see it only got one post one page, right? I'm gonna go here into the tools I'm gonna go to import here. It gives me the option import from several different places. Blogger, blogger role categories, intact. Murder, Live journal, movable type RSS tumbler. That's new tumblers in WordPress 2.3 tumbler imports. If you're going from tumbler to Wordpress, which a lot of people are making that jump nowadays. You can use that. And then WordPress I want to import WordPress data. So used to be the importer was a part of wordpress. It was a part of it that was just there by default. Now you have to actually install it, which is bogus, because it's a WordPress product. But whatever. Um there, trying to make it a little bit more streamlined than Lewis, you know, bloated. I guess. Now, according to this, it doesn't. It hasn't been tested with this version. But you know what? They're importer. Better work with their own beta, right? Watch me. I said that, and it's gonna break. But anyway, I'm gonna activate it, and it's in there. Now I go back and I'll have to go into, uh, I'm running a multi site here. That's why it looks so weird. But I'll go into the tools and I'll choose Import and WordPress. There we go. OK, so when I get to the WordPress import screen, it's gonna ask me to find the file, and that's okay. I just choose the file and I'll find it. It's probably in my my downloads. I would imagine air. We kill notice. It has the title of my site right here. WordPress for photographers dot wordpress that 2011 the date on all the information, so that lets me know exactly when and where it came from. So if you have multiple ones, it's a great way to, you know, tell the difference uploaded import file. So I do that. It's going to say to make things easier for you to edit. We want you to map your author. So do you want to import the author? Justin Seeley? You want to create a new user in your database? Would you like to assign this post to somebody? I'll assign it to myself. It's me going from one place delay or so do you want to import all attachments? If I choose to do that, it should theoretically go get my media library. Let's see what? Let's see if it works. I have had this failed before, So if it fails today, I'm not gonna be shocked. It goes through. It's gonna take a minute because those are some pretty big photos we've been working with inside of that other WordPress installation. But theoretically, once it's finished, it should come through and show me all of this stuff had brought in. And then it should say I'm done. Are happy blogging or something generic like that? And so we'll give this just a minute, Bueller. Yeah, I guess. Okay. It's gonna tell me All done have fun. And so now if I go into my post, check this out. There's all my posts. Remember I only had one when I started. There's all my posts. If I go into my media, there's all my pictures. This is a completely different site. I did this in under five minutes, so there's all my stuff, okay? And so that's the quick and easy way of exporting and importing.

Class Materials

bonus material with enrollment

WordpressSlides.pdf
wp_seo_101.pdf

Ratings and Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

I watched all three days of the course. I am a photographer. The course was titled WordPress for Photographers. Only about 5% of the course was tailored to photographers. Most of the content and discussion was for pro website consultants and bloggers. That aside, Mr. Seeley is so well versed in what he knows well. Imagine sitting in front of the camera for 3 straight days remaining articulate and very professional! The class was really presented for bloggers, not photographers. An example of this is on day 3 where the presenter, after talking about photographers' concerns for an hour or two, said he wanted to transition out of photography into blogging. The class seemed short on the type of content that photographers need. It would have served photographers better if the students present in the studio were all photographers. Discussions on watermarking, photo file size and image theft/copyright infringement showed that Mr. Seeley's background in the needs of photographers is lacking, while his expertise in graphics and web design are VERY impressive. Too much of the class time was devoted to answering narrowly focused tech support questions from people other than photographers. It was a wonderful class for the audience that hijacked it, but it should have been titled and described differently if it was intended for web-blog designers. I really liked the energy, humor, and expertise of Mr. Seeley but the class was too-often off-mission. On day 1, it would have been very productive to show a photographer's WP website that was esthetically beautiful and had all the bells and whistles photographers are looking for. Then explain how you get from nothing to the final website using WordPress. That would have met the needs of pro photographers!

Shannon
 

Justin is an excellent presenter. He's easy to listen to and it's obvious he knows his stuff. As a presenter/trainer, I really appreciated his ability to stick with his outline while he fielded questions, both off and on topic. It takes some balancing to do that. He was good at noting questions that were too far afield and I think he actually answered all of them by the end of the three days. I would definitely attend more classes presented by him. Thanks, Justin and CreativeLIVE.

a Creativelive Student
 

Amazing class! Superb presentation! Justin kept the technical geek-speak to a minimal and made the entire class easy to understand and fun! I think this class should be called Wordpress for the Non-Geek! (As others have said there was not a lot of information specific to photographers, but when it was referenced there was great examples and information provided!)

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