Description

Advanced Export is one of the best and powerful data exporter plugin. It has number of features which make more manageable and convenient to WordPress user to exact their WordPress site data and again re-use in another website.

Exported Zip can be imported by using plugin Advanced Import

It is designed specially for theme developer who want to provide demo data to their customer but it can be also use for migration purpose too.

Some listed features of Advanced Export are given below :

Export widget
Export option
Export media,
Export pages,
Export post
Export custom post type
Export actual media files

Dashboard Location

Dashboard -> Tool -> Advanced Export

Screenshots

Installation

There are two ways to install any Advanced Export Plugin:

1.Upload zip file from Dashboard->Plugin->Add New “upload plugin”. 2.Extract Advanced Export and placed it to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory. – Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.

FAQ

Is Advanced Export is free plugin ?

Yes, it is free plugin.

I have exported zip using Advanced Export plugin, now how to import on other sites ?

After exported zip, you can import it using Advanced Import plugin

All of the options are not exported by the plugin, how can I include them?

By default all options on options table does not exported by this plugin, since it contain a lot of information and all information does not needed.
But you can use following hook to include all options:

add_action('advanced_export_all_options','prefix_add_all_options');
function prefix_add_all_options(){
    return true;
}

It is not recommended to use this hook unless you are migrating your site.

Some option table are not exported, what is happening?

You can include needed options by using advanced_export_include_options filter hook

add_action('advanced_export_include_options','prefix_include_my_options');
 function prefix_include_my_options( $included_options ){
     $my_options = array(
         'blogname',
         'blogdescription',
         'posts_per_page',
         'date_format',
         'time_format',
         'show_on_front',
         'thumbnail_size_w',
         'thumbnail_size_h',
         'thumbnail_crop',
         'medium_size_w',
         'medium_size_h',
         'medium_large_size_w',
         'medium_large_size_h',
         'avatar_default',
         'large_size_w',
         'large_size_h',
         'page_for_posts',
         'page_on_front',
         'woocommerce_shop_page_id',
         'woocommerce_cart_page_id',
         'woocommerce_checkout_page_id',
         'woocommerce_myaccount_page_id',
         'page_on_front',
         'show_on_front',
         'page_for_posts',
     );
     return array_unique (array_merge( $included_options, $my_options));
 }

Can you list all the hooks on the plugin?

Here are some important list of filter hooks:

advanced_export_page_slug
advanced_export_capability
advanced_export_ignore_post_types
advanced_export_include_options
advanced_export_all_options

Here are some important list of action hooks:

advanced_export_before_create_data_files
advanced_export_form

Reviews

rozhan November 18, 2022 1 reply

very very gooooooooooooooood

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Contributors & Developers

“Advanced Export” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

“Advanced Export” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Advanced Export” into your language.

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Changelog

2.0.0

Security: Added nonce verification to AJAX form load handler.
Security: Added capability check to AJAX form load handler.
Security: Added wp_unslash() to all $_POST and $_GET superglobal accesses.
Security: Added proper isset() / ! empty() guards to all form field reads.
Security: Replaced native copy() with $wp_filesystem->copy() for file operations.
Security: Fixed zip file path traversal risk — sanitize_file_name() now used instead of esc_attr().
Security: Zip file now written to plugin temp directory instead of server CWD.
Bug Fix: Fixed ZipArchive flags — logical && replaced with bitwise | so OVERWRITE works.
Bug Fix: Removed $wp_filesystem->rmdir() call on a file — zip now lives inside temp dir and is cleaned up by recursive directory removal.
Bug Fix: Fixed $form_args['post_author'] misspelling — changed to $form_args['author'] so post author filtering works.
Bug Fix: Fixed readfile() with no error handling — added file_exists() check.
Bug Fix: Fixed _e( 'Categories:' ) missing text domain — now esc_html_e( 'Categories:', 'advanced-export' ).
Enhancement: Added Requires PHP: 7.4 header to main plugin file.
Enhancement: Updated Tested up to: 7.0 and Requires PHP: 7.4 in readme.txt.
Enhancement: Added function_exists() guard to advanced_export_form().
Enhancement: Moved file-scope global $wpdb, $wp_locale declarations inside functions.
Enhancement: Converted inline $wpdb->get_col() calls to use $wpdb->prepare() for consistency.
Enhancement: uninstall.php now cleans up temp directories and plugin options.
Enhancement: JavaScript AJAX call now uses nonce from localized wp_localize_script data.

1.1.0 – 2024-11-12

Updated : WordPress version
Updated : Language folder

1.0.9 – 2024-08-21

Updated : WordPress version
Added : Plugin action link

1.0.8 – 2024-04-07

Updated : WordPress version

1.0.7 – 2022-05-26

Updated : WordPress version

1.0.6 – 2022-02-04

Updated : WordPress version

1.0.5 – 2022-01-05

Updated : WordPress version

1.0.4 – 2021-04-22

Updated : PHPCS

1.0.3 – 2020-06-22

Updated : Export post types order

1.0.2 – 2020-03-04

Updated : Permission of ZIP
Updated : Readme

1.0.1 – 2019-09-29

Updated : Some information

1.0.0

Initial release.

Description

Dashboard Location

Screenshots

Installation

FAQ

Is Advanced Export is free plugin ?

I have exported zip using Advanced Export plugin, now how to import on other sites ?

All of the options are not exported by the plugin, how can I include them?

Some option table are not exported, what is happening?

Can you list all the hooks on the plugin?