Comments on: Wordpress won’t import your categories? Here’s how to fix it.

By: Adam Hommey

Adam Hommey — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:39:23 +0000

I’VE BEEN TRYING TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE FOR TWO YEARS NOW. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT WAS THIS ELEMENTARY! THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS!

- ARH

By: Jeff McNeill

Jeff McNeill — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:36:26 +0000

Thank you, this was great. I had already deleted the first post, but creating a new post and assigning it to all categories fixed the problem. I used a nice “toggle checkboxes” bookmarklet http://lifehacker.com/5218436/toggle-em-all-makes-check-boxes-hassle-free to make it faster.

Any news about how to fix this with tags? I can hack the database if need be. Thanks!

By: Hongservane

Hongservane — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:55:17 +0000

Thank you very much! Your tip is perfect. I was afraid I should start the new installation from the beginning, because I had deleted the “Hello world” article before reading your post. But it works also by generating a temporary post at any time of the installation.

Not found the solution for the tags… I will share it if I do!

hgsvn

By: Mer

Mer — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:41:10 +0000

That’s great, Melinda, glad I could help! And also, yay for the gremlins of the internet making this findable for people who need help making their sites go.

By: Melinda Bilecki

Melinda Bilecki — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:42:43 +0000

This was SOOO helpful! Thank you. My import kept stopping short. I couldn’t figure out what was going on, and the refresh took so long I didn’t think it was doing anything at first. After finding your post, I tried it again, and it worked! Yay!

By: Dan Cortazio

Dan Cortazio — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:49:11 +0000

Hmm, ok, I opened a topic on Wordpress.org Forum: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/251873. Let's see if anyone else know how to fix it. Thanks!

By: Mer

Mer — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:33:41 +0000

I’m afraid not. If I had that problem, I’d start hunting for a meta-info extractor, either a utility or a plugin and see if I couldn’t get all my tags in one place, and then I’d have something to plug into a temporary post.

Beyond that, I have no idea. Good luck.

By: Dan Cortazio

Dan Cortazio — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:38:55 +0000

Hello man! So, see, i’ve done that, and yeap! It works for categories, but not for tags! The logic would be assign the post to every tag, but i’ve got more then 9.000 tags!

Do you have a solution? Thanks a lot!