Exporting Posts From WordPress

This task will export posts from WordPress in an XML format. The results can be filtered if required. See below for a sample output file.

Settings

Connection

Required The WordPress connection to use when running the Export Posts task.

Output File

Required The file to save results from the Export Posts task. The results are returned as an array of the Post object as detailed in the example below.

WooCommerce Export Settings

See Common WordPress Settings

Zynk Settings

See Common Task Settings

Examples

A sample output file is shown below.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <ArrayOfPost xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
      <Post>
        <id>31</id>
        <external_id>12345</external_id>
        <link>https://localhost/wordpress/a-post/</link>
        <date>2016-08-02T16:31:53</date>
        <date_gmt>2016-08-02T15:31:53</date_gmt>
        <modified>2016-08-31T15:59:40</modified>
        <modified_gmt>2016-08-31T14:59:40</modified_gmt>
        <slug>a-post</slug>
        <type>post</type>
        <title>
          <rendered>a post</rendered>
        </title>
        <author_id>1</author_id>
        <author>
          <id>1</id>
          <name>admin</name>
          <url />
          <description />
          <link>https://localhost/wordpress/author/admin/</link>
          <slug>admin</slug>
          <registered_date xsi:nil="true" />
          <avatar_urls>
            <item>
              <key>24</key>
              <value>https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/02f0389f39fb5b37a548110c961725a1?s=24&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g</value>
            </item>
            <item>
              <key>48</key>
              <value>https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/02f0389f39fb5b37a548110c961725a1?s=48&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g</value>
            </item>
            <item>
              <key>96</key>
              <value>https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/02f0389f39fb5b37a548110c961725a1?s=96&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g</value>
            </item>
          </avatar_urls>
        </author>
        <featured_media>0</featured_media>
        <comment_status>open</comment_status>
        <ping_status>open</ping_status>
        <format>standard</format>
        <sticky>false</sticky>
        <categories>
          <Category>
            <id>9</id>
            <count>1</count>
            <description />
            <link>https://localhost/wordpress/category/parent-category/child-category/</link>
            <name>Child Category</name>
            <slug>child-category</slug>
            <taxonomy>category</taxonomy>
            <parent>8</parent>
          </Category>
          <Category>
            <id>8</id>
            <count>1</count>
            <description />
            <link>https://localhost/wordpress/category/parent-category/</link>
            <name>Parent Category</name>
            <slug>parent-category</slug>
            <taxonomy>category</taxonomy>
            <parent>0</parent>
          </Category>
          <Category>
            <id>1</id>
            <count>2</count>
            <description />
            <link>https://localhost/wordpress/category/uncategorised/</link>
            <name>Uncategorised</name>
            <slug>uncategorised</slug>
            <taxonomy>category</taxonomy>
            <parent>0</parent>
          </Category>
        </categories>
        <tags>
          <Tag>
            <id>10</id>
            <count>1</count>
            <description />
            <link>https://localhost/wordpress/tag/news/</link>
            <name>news</name>
            <slug>news</slug>
            <taxonomy>post_tag</taxonomy>
          </Tag>
        </tags>
      </Post>
    </ArrayOfPost>