WP All Export turns your WordPress data into a custom CSV file. Then, WP All Import saves that data to your new site. First, select what you want to export. You can export posts, pages, WooCommerce products, orders, and custom post types from any theme or plugin.
Next, you download the 'Bundle' that's provided on the export complete screen. Upload that bundle on Step 1 of a new import to automatically configure it. After the import runs your data will be saved on the destination site.
Most often you will want to import categories and tags and other taxonomies as part of an import that is creating posts. There are times, however, when you will want to import just the taxonomies on their own. This is especially helpful when you have meta like images, custom fields, and content that need to be imported into the taxonomies themselves. This is only possible by creating an import for taxonomies.
Just like posts, you can import new taxonomies, or you can add meta and content to existing taxonomies.
To get started, select 『Taxonomies』 in Step 1:
Then select the taxonomy to import into from the 2nd drop down box that appears on the page:
Then in Step 3 of the import process you can drag and drop your import data just like any other import. Supported fields include the name, description, images term meta (custom fields), and the parent term.
The parent term settings are in the 「Other Category Options」 section:
And you can also choose whether to manually set the slug for the category, or let a slug be automatically generated.
Note: When importing non-hierarchical taxonomies (e.g. Tags), only the option to set the slug will appear in this section.
WP All Import provides two options to import hierarchical or nested taxonomies, also known as 「parent」 and 「child」 taxonomies.
Example A
If you have a file where the taxonomy structure is specified in a single column or element, use 「An element in my file contains the entire hierarchy」.
Example – you have a column in your file with the value 「Ski Resorts > Colorado > Aspen > Aspen Highlands」
Ski Resorts is the parent, Colorado is a child of Ski Resorts, Aspen is a child of Colorado, and Aspen Highlands is a child of Aspen.
Click the Preview button to see what your taxonomy structure will look like after it is imported.
Example B
If you have a file with many different columns or elements containing your taxonomies, choose the 「Manually design the hierarchy with drag & drop」 option.
Drag the four-pointed arrows to the left or right to make a category a parent or child, or drag up and down to re-order.
