xm Importer

This Plugin allows you to transfer posts / custom post types and even Divi layouts from one web site to another.

This is how it works:
1. Install the plugin Action Scheduler by Automattic on your web site (required for subscriptions).
2. If you wish to import Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), you should install the plugin Sekura REST Bridge for ACF by cwdekker on the source web site.
3. Get an administrator app password on your source web site.
4. Take note of the app password and the user name.
5. Install the plugin xm Importer
6. In the main menu, go to xm Importer -> Sources
7. Click “Add Sources”
8. Enter the Name of your source web site into the label Field
9. In the field URL, enter the URL of the remote web site
10. Enter user Name and WordPress App Password
11. Click “Save Sources”
12. Go to Settings
13. In the field Import Post Typ Mapping, register the post-types, that you wish to import. Use the schema target_slug|sorce_post_type|menu-label Example: post|posts|Posts
page|pages|Pages
article|article|Article
(While pages and posts have a differing source_post_type, custom post types like article usually have a target_slug=source_post_type.)
14. Posts per page (pagination) – Here you can choose the amount of Posts displayed on each page.
15. Image Register – This option is recommended, as it allows you to maintain an image register and stops wordpress from downloading duplicate images.
16. Click on Save Settings.
17. Posts overview: In the main menu under xm Importer you should now see menu entries for the post types that you registered. (posts, pages, articles or whatever it is you entered.)
18. If you open one of these tabs, you should see an overview of downloadable posts from the source web site.
19. You can now mark posts to download and click “Import selected posts” to download them.
20. In the menu entry “Subscriptions” you can register post types and categories for frequent downloading (subscriptions).
21. To register a category, click “Add entry” and configure the subscription. You can use the method “Sync & overwrite”, so that posts stay up-to date. This overwrites existing posts if there is an update.
22. If you make changes to a downloaded post on the target web site, the functionality of synchronising and overwriting “Sync & overwrite” is paused. You then have to do a manual update in the posts-overview (Button: “Update available”)
23. Before a post is overwritten, because you activated the option “Sync & overwrite”, a backup of the old post is placed in your trash.

Interesting Facts

• If you have enabled “Sync & overwrite” for a subscription item, It may not apply, after you touched the local post. Local posts are not overwritten automatically, once you have edited them.
• Sometimes it may be surprising that older Posts are not downloaded, once you have activated the Option “Max posts per source (cap)”. This option is mainly good for installations with multiple sources, when you do not want excess posts to flood your posts overview.