Comments on: WordPress Copy Post Plugin

By: Enrico

Enrico — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:03:03 +0000

Hi,

I keep getting ERROR: Author (name) does not exist on target system!

I have verfied both usernames are identical and have the same standard table prefixes between the 2 blogs “wp_”.
Can you help me, please?
I work with WP 2.91. Thanks
Best,

By: tech

tech — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:29:38 +0000

Hello
Yeah i just checked target blog and its standard prefixes too And i fixed by changing target host as localhost and not domain name…not sure if that what the problem was but it worked.

Thanks

By: Jeff W.

Jeff W. — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:14:19 +0000

Hi Paul,

I’m glad you were able to figure out what was going on and solve your problem.

We didn’t have many attachments, so we opted to manually transfer the few we did have instead of adding the feature to the plugin. I hope the plugin still provides you some value even in its basic form.

By: Jeff W.

Jeff W. — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:08:45 +0000

Hi,

The table prefixes of the source blog should be handled by WordPress’ own database functions. However, the target blog table prefixes are expected to be the standard wp_. For now, you’ll have to edit the copy_post.php file to change the target blog table prefixes.

By: tech

tech — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:55:24 +0000

I keep getting ERROR: Author (name) does not exist on target system!

I have verfied both usernames are identical but yes the source blog has non standard table prefixes how can i edit the code to reflect this?

Basically instead of wp_posts it has wpi9_posts etc etc..

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:36:12 +0000

Hi Jeff

Thanks for responding! It turns out that the problem was I have non standard table prefixes, so instead of ‘wp_posts’ I have ’something_posts’. I updated the code in the plugin to use the non standard prefixes and it worked.

Is there a way to copy the post attachments over as well?

Thanks!
Paul

By: Chi-Ming

Chi-Ming — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:57:07 +0000

On your source blog, when you’re in the admin backend, find the post you want to copy and “Edit” it. The URL in your browser’s address bar will then display the Post ID:

Example/ If your URL says:

/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=1234

the post ID is 1234

By: ibrahim

ibrahim — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:21:50 +0000

Hi there,
May i know that how do i find the post id from my source blog to destination blog? like what is the post id and which type of value it is?

By: Jeff W.

Jeff W. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:57:06 +0000

Hi Paul,

The plugin looks for a user with the same username, but the user ID’s don’t have to be the same.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:02:14 +0000

Hello,

Great idea for a plugin. I’m currently trying to get it to work and I’m running in to a problem. Whenever I try to copy a post I get an error saying the user doesn’t exist on the other blog but I know that they do.

Do you have any ideas why I might be getting that?

Thanks,
Paul