Title: Import & export issues
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Import & export issues

 *  Resolved [Angela](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelazou/)
 * (@angelazou)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-issues/)
 * I have two WP installations, both at their 3.2 version. I want to migrate posts
   from one to the other. I use the ‘Import’ and ‘Export’ tool under ‘Tools’ menu.
   And the process went fairly well, EXCEPT, nothing other than the post contents
   are imported. The tags got imported, but not associated with any post.
    Any ideas
   on how I can get the tags and categories synced up?
 * Regards,
    Angela

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 *  Thread Starter [Angela](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelazou/)
 * (@angelazou)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-issues/#post-2179952)
 * Oh, just FYI, I use a multi-language plugin, but I only have posts in English.
   Somehow, during the import process, not only did the importer strip out all the
   categories, tags, and comments, the importer thinks it’s smart enough to make
   the page bilingual without any bilingual content!
 * Regards,
    Angela
 *  Thread Starter [Angela](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelazou/)
 * (@angelazou)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-issues/#post-2180179)
 * Anyone?
 *  Thread Starter [Angela](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelazou/)
 * (@angelazou)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-issues/#post-2180249)
 * I also tried with some other importer tools, NONE of them works. This is native
   WP to WP transfer, how can it go so wrong. Both of the WP installations are in
   the same version, so why doesn’t the “built-in” plugins work?
 *  And even if it did work, for the only time I have succeeded, everything was 
   separated. I mean, I got the posts, pages, tags, categories, and comments, but
   they are all un-attached and not associated with each other. Can anyone explain
   what’s going on here?
 *  The strangest thing I find in WP is that there are export plugins and import
   plugins, but they don’t work in pairs. I’m just wondering, how am I suppose to
   import something if the importer and exporter plugins use different formats?
 * Regards,
    Angela

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## Tags

 * [export](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/export/)
 * [Import](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/import/)
 * [tags](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tags/)
 * [tool](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tool/)

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 * Last reply from: [Angela](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelazou/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-issues/#post-2180249)
 * Status: resolved

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