Exporting thumbnail images with custom post types about multi-post-thumbnails

[chrisscott]

As you noted, this is a limitation of the exporter since any partial export doesn't check (natively or through allowance by a filter) for any attached or associated (through metadata) attachments and add them to the WXR. Solution 1 definitely seems like the clean option to me.

[deardooley]

If I work that into the existing plugin via a settings panel, would you accept the pull request, or would you rather it be an external thing to handle file attachments in a more general way?

Rion

On Jan 15, 2015, at 3:20 PM, Chris Scott [email protected] wrote:

As you noted, this is a limitation of the exporter since any partial export doesn't check (natively or through allowance by a filter) for any attached or associated (through metadata) attachments and add them to the WXR. Solution 1 definitely seems like the clean option to me.

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[chrisscott]

I think a separate plugin would make sense since this has a broader use case outside this plugin and would probably be more valuable as a standalone.

[thedavedavies]

@deardooley did you manage to come up with a solution for this at all? I'm in the same boat at the moment, and could definitely do with an export solution...

[deardooley]

@dav086 Yes. I wound up forking demomentsomtres-wp-export and adding in support for the things I needed. There are some schema issues in wordpress that prevent this from being done cleanly as in other posts. Message me offline if you'd like a copy.

[thedavedavies]

@deardooley I'd love a copy please! Although I can't work out how to message you on Github other than through this board, sorry. My email address is on my profile for the time being. Thanks a lot 👍

[deardooley]

On it's way. For posterity, those of you reading this thread in the future should checked out the Wordpress REST API. There's a great tutorial and slide deck by @petenelson about Extending the Wordpress API and bending it to your will from his talk at the Austin Wordpress Meetup.