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Last updated by universitat-salzburgI 1 year, 11 months ago.

Assisted by: Marcel.

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June 13, 2023 at 9:50 am #13815583

universitat-salzburgI

Hi there,

I have to export the posts (multilingual) including categories and tags from WordPress website A to WordPress website B. I used WordPress's default export (xml) feature and got a xml file. Then I installed WordPress importer (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-importer/) Plugin to import the content into website B but I didn't find any multilingual option while importing (in the import wizard) and therefore I had to import all posts in only one language.

Can you please guide me through how can export/import multilingual content as it is on other wordpress website?

Thanks

June 14, 2023 at 7:18 am #13821969

Marcel
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Hi,

the regular WP XML export doesn't support any multilingual content. The branch standard would be to use WP All Import, which we have a multilingual extension for. You can prepare the content via CSV and import your default language and second languages to link them together as described here:

- https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/wpml-all-import-plugin-website-import-with-wpml/.
- https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/wpml-all-import-plugin-website-import-with-wpml/importing-multiple-languages-with-wp-all-import-and-wpml/
- https://wpml.org/documentation/plugins-compatibility/export-multilingual-websites-using-wp-all-export-wpml/

Other solutions are mentioned here:
https://wpml.org/plugin-functionality/import-export/
https://wpml.org/compatibility/2022/05/top-wordpress-import-and-export-plugins-for-moving-your-data/

Best Regards
Marcel