Title: Plugin for media library
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin for media library

 *  Resolved [justinae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinae/)
 * (@justinae)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-for-media-library/)
 * Hi all. First post here and appreciate the help in advance.
 * I am developing a site for a client who is already running WP. I was able to 
   successfully export/import the posts and pages to the new clean installation 
   on a different server.
 * I know the “media library” question has been asked many time and I’ve read many
   a post/article about it but still the answer eludes me.
 * I have a database that I think is clean and I’ve successfully exported that into
   the new database. However, when I login it takes me back to the clients old site.
   I understand there is a way to change the URL in the database, however they have
   many instances of the URL in their posts and I don’t want to replace those.
 * I have also migrated the “uploads” folder successfully to the new host server.
   Naturally none of it shows up in the media library and all the posts are broken
   because the database doesn’t know they’re there. Is there a way to export ONLY
   the media library portion of the database?
 * At this point I’m looking at re-uploading all the images and PDF’s and just manually
   reconnecting. There are almost 400 of them so it is a medium sized job and I’m
   willing to do it to keep everything clean (the older WP setup had gotten terribly
   patched and broken).
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [wpismypuppet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpressismypuppet/)
 * (@wordpressismypuppet)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-for-media-library/#post-4249114)
 * How good/comfortable are you with SQL? You could do this easily with a simple
   SQL statement. But it’s dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing.
 *  Thread Starter [justinae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinae/)
 * (@justinae)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-for-media-library/#post-4249141)
 * I’m moderately comfortable and did just as you suggested. In case anyone else
   is having this issue, don’t do a search for [http://www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com),
   you’ll get all the instances of that reference in your posts/pages. Use [http://www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com).
   When I did it that way it only came up with the two places in the database that
   needed to be changed and all was good.
 * thanks.

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 * Last reply from: [justinae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinae/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-for-media-library/#post-4249141)
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