Title: Much text is missing after import Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Much text is missing after import * Resolved [macsolve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macsolve/) * (@macsolve) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/) * A lot of text in many of the posts is lost. Image order within posts is not preserved. It seems posts that have text and images interleaved are problematic, but also simple posts with text and a couple of images at the end can lose all the text. * The xml export file is complete also where the importer has failed. Do you want to have a look at it? * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posterous-importer-advanced/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posterous-importer-advanced/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/page/2/?output_format=md) * [ellbristow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellbristow/) * (@ellbristow) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/#post-3673193) * Hi [@macsolve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macsolve/), * Sorry to hear you’re having issues here. * If you can provide a link to the feed I will ask one of our developers to take a look to see if there is any obvious reason why the import would be problematic in this case. * Thanks * Thread Starter [macsolve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macsolve/) * (@macsolve) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/#post-3673198) * [xml export file](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4922/wordpress_export_1.xml.zip)( zip) * Original blog is at [http://www.libelle.se/](http://www.libelle.se/) * Thread Starter [macsolve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macsolve/) * (@macsolve) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/#post-3673199) * Two examples: The post “Jämförelse mellan Seapilot och iNavX” gets no text at all after import. The post “Krabbseglingen som inte blev” is missing a lot of text, and images are in the wrong order. * [ellbristow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellbristow/) * (@ellbristow) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/#post-3673315) * OK. I’m forwarding this on to our developers now to see if they can spot any obvious reason. * I suspect it may be to do with character encoding. * [gumpelmaier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gumpelmaier/) * (@gumpelmaier) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/#post-3673397) * I have the same issues. Some posts are missing text. Did you solve this problem? * [gumpelmaier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gumpelmaier/) * (@gumpelmaier) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/#post-3673398) * when i hit “import” it shows me the progress bar, then – for a shirt time – there’s an error-note (see screenshot: [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/336249/WP%20importer.png](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/336249/WP%20importer.png)), before it redirects me to the “done”-page. * Thread Starter [macsolve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macsolve/) * (@macsolve) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/#post-3673399) * [@gumpelmaier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gumpelmaier/): No, I reverted to import via wordpress.com. There was still some missing text that way but much less, and I fixed those incomplete or mangled posts manually. * [gumpelmaier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gumpelmaier/) * (@gumpelmaier) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/#post-3673400) * Before Posterous closed? Or did you copy the text from the single XML.files? * Thread Starter [macsolve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macsolve/) * (@macsolve) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/#post-3673401) * The (late) night before they closed… But grabbing the text from the XML file would work too. Missing images were uploaded from the backup though. * [gumpelmaier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gumpelmaier/) * (@gumpelmaier) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/#post-3673402) * Ok, but maybe there’s a simpler way to do that – [@ellbristow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellbristow/)? * [gumpelmaier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gumpelmaier/) * (@gumpelmaier) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/#post-3673403) * Thanks, but maybe there’s a simpler way [@ellbristow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellbristow/)? * [ellbristow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellbristow/) * (@ellbristow) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/#post-3673404) * I’ve just sent another ping to the developer to take a look at this one. I realise we’re on a tight timescale now so hopefully we can push a patch out before the 31st May final closing date, although we can’t promise anything since this plugin has now technically reached the end of it’s usable life. * If we do come up with anything, we;ll be sure to let you know. * [suppien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suppien/) * (@suppien) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/#post-3673409) * Please tell me its not to late? I am trying to import my files, its says; * Importing … * Please hold on while we bring your content from Posterous over to your sparky new blog. * For hours now? =( * [ellbristow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellbristow/) * (@ellbristow) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/#post-3673410) * I’m afraid it is too late. Posterous have closed their doors and said their goodbyes! 🙁 * Shame we didn’t have a bit more warning so that we could have had this plugin running longer… but that’s the way things go! * Sorry! * [suppien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suppien/) * (@suppien) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/#post-3673411) * [@ellbristow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellbristow/) this is sad. Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. I got no message on email or something that I can move my blog to wordpress from Posterous, only that i can backup my blog. * is there no other way to move the blog? : ( Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Much text is missing after import’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/posterous-importer-advanced_beb7a7. svg) * [Posterous Importer Advanced](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posterous-importer-advanced/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posterous-importer-advanced/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posterous-importer-advanced/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posterous-importer-advanced/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posterous-importer-advanced/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posterous-importer-advanced/reviews/) * 16 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [ellbristow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellbristow/) * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-text-is-missing-after-import/page/2/#post-3673415) * Status: resolved