Title: Moving only content
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Moving only content

 *  [sicdigital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mac974/)
 * (@mac974)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-only-content/)
 * Hey everyone, forgive me if this has been addressed, I’ve been looking but I 
   can’t find what I’m looking for. I want to move all of the content of a WP install
   to a new WP install. I can usually do this by using the export feature from within
   WP, but this XML file that is exported for this site specifically is over the
   2mb limit. I tried to backup just the wp_posts portion of the database of the
   old site but it links it over to that other site. I just want the pages to come
   over. (both of these sites will have the same content but should not be connected
   in any way).

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-only-content/#post-952096)
 * [How do I Import a WordPress WXR file when it says it is too large to import?](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Working_with_WordPress#How_do_I_Import_a_WordPress_WXR_file_when_it_says_it_is_too_large_to_import.3F)
 * Might use the info in that FAQ to edit the WXR (XML) file down to be just the
   pages.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-only-content/#post-952097)
 * Guess you could also export, using [phpMyAdmin](http://codex.wordpress.org/phpMyAdmin),
   the wp_posts table, edit the file search/replace the old URL with the new URL,
   import that then use an SQL statement do delete everything in wp_posts but records
   with ‘post_type’ = page.
 * Or some variation of that…

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 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-only-content/#post-952097)
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