Title: Posts Database
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Posts Database

 *  Resolved [dhanesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhanesh/)
 * (@dhanesh)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-database/)
 * Ok .. very twisted and weird question .. but which table in the DB of wordpress
   carries all the posts. The reason m asking this is .. i want to make a new installation
   of WP .. but dont want to import other user settings of the old blog .. i wana
   start new .. but with the blog posts already in it .. which one should i import
   and how ..
 * Regards.

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 *  [yosemite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yosemite/)
 * (@yosemite)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-database/#post-430006)
 * The ‘table’ is called posts. With a default install it would be wp_posts.
 *  Thread Starter [dhanesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhanesh/)
 * (@dhanesh)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-database/#post-430016)
 * ok .. whats fim_cat ??
 *  [Rok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rok/)
 * (@rok)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-database/#post-430072)
 * dhanesh, if you have a backup of your WordPress DB, just open it using Word(&
   not MS Word). You will see all the DB Tables and beneath each table is the description
   and the Data.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-database/#post-430074)
 * It’s not enough to import only the table with the posts. Every post MUST be assigned
   to a category and that’s in another table.
    Why are you over-complicating it,
   dhanesh? Import the DB and after that you can change delete whatever setting 
   you don’t like.
 *  Thread Starter [dhanesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhanesh/)
 * (@dhanesh)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-database/#post-430121)
 * thankx moshu .. i did that finally .. i also put every post in its catgory ..
   it was simple .. u just had to impot the wp_catagory in too .. 🙂 … and i deleted
   the rest of the tables b4 i imported the file.
 * To answer your question .. i made it complicated because .. i am kinda paranoid
   and when it comes to order and arranging .. i am a freek .. i just needed to 
   do all the user and blog settings my self .. but impost just the poast to their
   resp catagories ..
 * I went tru the sql backup file .. and then figured out what each table ment ..
   so now its fine i guess 🙂
 * Thankc for all the help .. appriciate it 🙂
 * Regards.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-database/#post-430144)
 * _…u just had to impot the wp\_catagory in too …_
 * And, I guess, the post2cat table, too – otherwise I doubt it will work correctly.
   I hope you figured out a lot of tables are inter-related, so you cannot take 
   them out arbitrarily…
    Good luck!

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-database/#post-430144)
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