The document provides tips and tricks for importing content into WordPress from other systems such as Blogger, Joomla, and Drupal as well as exporting content from WordPress. It discusses preparation steps, plugins that can assist with imports, and uncommon imports from sources like Twitter, Delicious, and HTML files. The document also covers things to check after importing like search and replace and adding linked images to galleries.

1. Tips and Tricks
Stephanie Leary sillybean.net @sleary

2. Who am I?
• sillybean.net
• uwc.tamu.edu
• @sleary
• slideshare.net/
stephanieleary

3. Importing

4. I’ve imported from...
• Blogger • Joomla
• Movable Type • Drupal
• Textpattern • Twitter
• LiveJournal • Gallery2
• WordPress.com • Delicious
• CSV files • HTML files

5. Uncommon Imports
http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content

6. HTML Import

10. Secrets of
Happy Importing

11. Preparation
• Back up
• Prepare to undo
• Import on development server
• Or turn on maintenance mode
• Turn off crossposting plugins
• Use absolute URLs for linked files

12. Plugins
• DB Backup
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/
• Mass Page Remover
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mass-page-remover/
• WordPress Reset
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-reset/
• Maintenance Mode
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode/

13. WordPress export
• Posts, pages, comments, authors
• Uploads optional
• No settings
• No menus in 3.0 (fixed in 3.1)
• Category slug issues (fixed in 3.1)
• Skips users with no posts

14. Uncommon imports
• Twitter
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-importer/
• Delicious
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/delicious-xml-importer/
• Gallery2
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gallery2-importer/
• HTML
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/import-html-pages/

15. Uncommon imports
• Joomla/Mambo
• 1.0 to WP 2.7x: http://tinyurl.com/joom2wp
• 1.5 to WP 3.0x: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
joomla-15-importer/
• Drupal
• 6.x to WP 2.7x: http://tinyurl.com/dru6wp2
• 5.x to WP 2.7x: http://tinyurl.com/dru5wp2
• CSV
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/csv-importer/

16. After importing
• Search & Replace
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/
• Redirection
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/
• Add Linked Images to Gallery
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-linked-images-
to-gallery-v01/

17. ?

18. Screen Options

22. Bulk Edit

24. Private Status

27. Short Links
the_shortlink();

29. Good Permalinks
• Include any numeric code
• DON’T use:
/%category%/%postname%/
• Why?
http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1431

30. Dashboard Feeds

32. Options.php

34. http://blog.tanist.co.uk/files/unserialize/

35. Hidden Feeds

36. Feed Default URL Clean URL
/?feed=rss2 /feed
Basic /?feed=atom /feed/atom
/?feed=comments-rss2 /comments/feed
Comments /?feed=comments-atom /comments/feed/atom
Category /?feed=rss2&cat=1 /category/news/feed
(ID: 1, slug: news) /?feed=atom&cat=1 /category/news/feed/atom
Tag /?feed=rss2&tag=book /tag/book/feed
(slug: book) /?feed=atom&tag=book /tag/book/feed/atom
Tags /?feed=rss2&tag=book+dvd /tag/book+dvd/feed
(slugs: book, dvd) /?feed=atom&tag=book+dvd /tag/book+dvd/feed/atom

37. Feed Default URL Clean URL
Author /?feed=rss2&author=2 /author/joe/feed
(ID: 2,
nickname: Joe)
/?feed=atom&author=2 /author/joe/feed/atom
Post Type /?feed=rss2&post_type=page /feed/?post_type=page
(page; course) /?feed=atom&post_type=course /feed/atom/?post_type=course
Taxonomy /?feed=rss2&genre=mystery /genre/mystery/feed
(genre:
mystery)
/?feed=atom&genre=mystery /genre/mystery/feed/atom
Search /?feed=rss2&s=wordpress /feed/?s=wordpress
Term /?feed=atom&s=wordpress /feed/atom/?s=wordpress
(wordpress)

38. Filters

39. Shortcodes in Widgets
add_filter( 'widget_text',
'shortcode_unautop');
add_filter( 'widget_text',
'do_shortcode');
http://sillybean.net/?p=2719

40. List Child Pages
function append_child_pages( $content ) {
$children = '';
if ( is_page() && (empty( $content )) ) {
global $post;
$children = '<ul class="childpages">'
.wp_list_pages('echo=0&title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID)
.'</ul>';
}
return $content.$children;
}
add_filter( 'the_content' , 'append_child_pages' );
http://sillybean.net/?p=5246

41. User Contact Info
function change_contactmethod( $contactmethods ) {
// Add some fields
$contactmethods['twitter'] = 'Twitter Name (no @)';
$contactmethods['phone'] = 'Phone Number';
$contactmethods['title'] = 'Title';
// Remove AIM, Yahoo IM, Google Talk/Jabber
unset($contactmethods['aim']);
unset($contactmethods['yim']);
unset($contactmethods['jabber']);
// make it go!
return $contactmethods;
}
add_filter('user_contactmethods','change_contactmethod',10,1);
http://sillybean.net/?p=2714

43. http://sillybean.net/?p=2715

44. Evaluating
Themes & Plugins

45. Evilness
• base64()
• eval()
• links you can’t remove
• etc.
• get things from wordpress.org!

46. Exploit Scanner
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exploit-scanner/

47. ?

48. New in 3.1
• admin bar
• internal links
• network admin
• sortable columns
• better theme search

49. New in 3.1
• post formats
• custom post type archives
• hidden meta boxes
• advanced taxonomy queries
http://otto42.com/81

50. For Developers
• user_can
• get_users
• has_term
• single_term_title

51. For Developers
• get_ancestors
• set_post_thumbnail
• esc_textarea
• submit_button

52. Thank you.
Stephanie Leary
sillybean.net
@sleary