Replicate production websites from WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) export files
Quickly create replicas of large production websites from WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) export files.
This command relies on writing directly to the WP database via WP DB API so both post and term tables should be empty.
Install it as a WP CLI package:
wp package install wpsh/wp-cli-replicator
Export content from the source site:
Use the WordPress Importer plugin or the wp export
command to export the site content.
Use the WP Options Importer plugin to export the site options. The output should be a single options.json
file.
Parse the exported WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR into JSON files for site users, terms and posts:
wp replicator parse-wxr path/to/wxr/directory
where path/to/wxr/directory
is the path to the directory with all the XML files.
All XML files path/to/wxr/files/*.xml
are parsed and stored in the path/to/wxr/directory/json
directory -- users.json
, terms.json
and posts-*.json
.
Please note that you may need to specify --url
for all commands if you're running WordPress multisite.
Empty the site content where you want to import the content:
wp site empty --yes
Import options:
wp replicator import-options "path/to/options.json"
where path/to/options.json
is the path to the exported options.
Import users:
wp replicator import-users "path/to/users.json"
where path/to/users.json
is the path the user list generated from the XML export.
All existing users with the same login name will be deleted and new users created with a random password because WordPress export doesn't include the passwords. All users will need to reset their passwords. Use wp user update USERNAME --user_pass="YOURNEWPASSWORD"
to update a password for a specific user.
Import taxonomies and terms:
wp replicator import-terms "path/to/terms.json"
where path/to/terms.json
is the path the term list generated from the XML export.
Import posts:
wp replicator import-posts "path/to/json"
where path/to/json
is the path to the directory with all post-*.json
files.
Created by Kaspars Dambis.