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1. teagster
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   I'm working with someone to move his Posts (about 60) from one WordPress site to another. He had a developer make his site, but hasn't been allowed access to full admin privileges- which is why we're moving away from it. I can access all of the Posts from the Dashboard, but not the FTP, MySQL db, Plugins section, or Tools...

   So is there a decent way to transfer the Posts, keeping the content, categories, and tags intact?

   (I'm not concerned with comments, and the content is all text- no images)

   Thanks in advance! :)

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   See Tools-> Export/Import.

3. teagster
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Thanks for the response. I would do that except, as I mentioned, we don't have access to the Tools section...

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Without that access (and with no FTP or db access), you simply can't export anything. Why not edit the database and give yourself full admin status?

   Using Phpmyadmin (or another MySQL management tool), first backup your database. Then navigate to your wp_usermeta table and locate the meta_key called "wp_capabilities" for your user_id. Change the meta-value for this record to:

   a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}

5. teagster
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   But I don't have any access to the database on the existing site.

   I get what you mean though- I'm not expecting for it to be super simple. The closest idea I had was to get the RSS feed for the existing site and then import it- but I couldn't find a way to get the full feed for all of the posts... is that even possible?

6. dragonsjaw
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Is the site still live? Are you creating a new WP install somewhere that you do have access to?
   60 posts without photos isn't really all that much.
   You could simply access the posts online, make note of the url, and then copy them by hand (I know I know) ... then add them back by hand into your new WP install. Without access ftp, cpanel or wp admin, I don't think there is another way.

7. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   I couldn't find a way to get the full feed for all of the posts... is that even possible?

   Not if it's been set to show summaries only. Who owns the hosting account for this site (ie who paid for it)? And why is the previous developer not allowing full access?

8. teagster
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   @dragonsjaw - Yeah, that's my fallback plan, but there's also the categories, tags, and post dates that would need to be manually input- so it's worth it for me to spend a bit of time exploring other options.

   @esmi - The developer set it all up on his account- basically never agreed to give full access, etc- won't budge on it. Definitely frustrating.

   I've seen a couple of services that can grab the full posts from the RSS, such as this one: http://fulltextrssfeed.com/
   but I just can't get more than the last 5 posts... any ideas?

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