#Using sitesucker to download wordpress install#

Otherwise, youвЂ™ll flood your social network with your imported posts! Cleaning Things Up If youвЂ™ve installed a plugin that crossposts your content to another site (like Facebook or LiveJournal) or automatically notifies another site of your new posts (like Twitter), be sure to deactivate those plugins before you import. If youвЂ™re importing content into a WordPress site that already contains content, back up your database and put the site into maintenance mode before you begin importing.

#Using sitesucker to download wordpress install#

YouвЂ™ll probably need to do a little bit of cleanup work afterward, so youвЂ™ll need to install the Search and Replace plugin as well. I like DB Backup for its simplicity, and I recommend it if you donвЂ™t already have a backup plugin. Therefore, itвЂ™s important to install the a backup plugin in case you need to start over. Importing can be tricky, and it doesnвЂ™t always go well the first time. If the directory contained a default index file (in this case, index.htm), the contents of that file will be used for the parent page. If you choose to import the files as pages (or any hierarchical post type), the new page hierarchy will match your original directory hierarchy. (IвЂ™ve done this a few times for clients whoвЂ™d forgotten their passwords.) If you do not have (S)FTP access to the old site, you can use wget or an application like SiteSucker to download the files.

The files you are importing must be on the same server as your WordPress installation.

The importer will try to import improperly nested HTML, but it might not work as you expect! Your files donвЂ™t necessarily have to validate according to the W3C specification, but they should at least contain tags that are properly nested. It therefore works best with well-formed HTML.

The plugin works by reading HTML as XML and copying the specified tagsвЂ™ contents into various WordPress fields. Current version: 2.5 How the HTML Import 2 Plugin Works