How Do I Export a Single WordPress Post or Page?

by Nina | Mar 2, 2014 | 31 comments

Follow this FAQ to export WordPress pages either one-by-one, or several at a time

This tutorial shows you how to export a select number of pages or posts so that you can import them into a different WordPress website.

Open the WordPress admin section and go to Users>Add New.
Create a new user with username ‘Exporter’, set the role to ‘Author’ and save.
Now change the author of the post or posts that you need to export by selecting them and clicking edit. Change the author to ‘Exporter’ as shown below:
Now go to Tools>Export and choose what type of content you want to export e.g. ‘Posts’. Then select the author ‘Exporter’ and click ‘Download Export File’. The resulting file contains all the information you need in XML format.
Now go to the WordPress website where you want to import this information and go to Tools>Import>WordPress. Note: if you’ve never imported anything before you’ll first be prompted to install a plugin which allows you to do this. Choose the XML file from the previous step. You’ll be asked which author you want to assign to the imported items during the import process.

How can I Import WordPress Posts without the Categories or Tags?

For this you’ll need to edit the XML file you created in the first step above. Open it in Notepad++ or other code editor. Each item contains information so you’ll need to do this for each and every item in your file: delete the category and/or tag rows and then save your file ready for import.

The category/tag lines look like this:

<wp:category>this contains category information</wp:category>

<wp:tag>this contains tag information</wp:tag>

Make sure that you delete the entire line including the green start/end tags in each case, otherwise you’ll end up with errors.

Did you find this FAQ useful or do you have questions? Please ask in the comments below.

31 Comments

Maria on 09/12/2014 at 12:16

Thank you! 🙂
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Seth on 18/01/2015 at 19:26

Thank you! This worked perfectly.
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- Nina Young on 05/02/2015 at 08:02
  
  You’re welcome! Glad to help.
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Mili on 15/03/2015 at 23:29

This article helped me alot! Thanks.
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Duncan on 02/04/2015 at 14:04

this really helped me, great technique. Thank you! 🙂
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Zedman on 08/09/2015 at 12:24

This solution is perfect. I needed to export the comments, and some other data, from one single post, and the steps were very easy to follow. I’d found several other solutions but all required accessing the data directly from the database using myPHPAdmin – way too scary and difficult. This solution took less than one minute. Thanks.
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Davide de Maestri on 29/01/2016 at 11:04

Genius 🙂 Thank you
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- Nina on 29/01/2016 at 11:06
  
  Welcome! Glad it helped 🙂
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Mark on 04/04/2016 at 13:42

Very tricky, very fine!
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Emre on 04/05/2016 at 21:16

Didn’t think about that. Clever solution 🙂
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karan on 18/05/2016 at 06:49

THanks a lot…….
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ALVARO on 08/06/2016 at 20:48

Hello,

Can anyone PLEASE explain me How can individual pages be exported from my WordPress editor to my MAC.

I am developing several landing pages that I need to send to my leads but the CRM system I am using only allows me to use files saved in my computer, Therefore I need to save the landing pages that I develop with the WordPress editor into my computer to be able to continue using the CRM services I now have.

I have searched extensively this issue but I have not been able to find an answer.

Thanks,
Alvaro
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- Nina on 08/06/2016 at 21:14
  
  When you mention ‘CRM services’ do you mean something other than WordPress?
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ALVARO on 08/06/2016 at 21:35

Hello nina,

Thank your very much for responding so quick.

Correct. i use ZOHO Campaigns for my email campaigns and this system only allows me to upload files from my computer and not from WordPress. since i am developing landing pages with WordPress Editor, I can not use these landing pages with ZOHO CAMPAIGNS due to their limitation. This is why i need to find a way to copy the landing pages from WordPress and paste them into my computer.

Can you please help me solve this issue?

Thanks,
Alvaro
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yogesh on 09/06/2016 at 06:07

very helpful thanks 🙂
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kobir liton on 24/05/2019 at 17:46

Thank you so much
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Mohammad on 14/04/2020 at 00:34

Thank you such Smart Idea it was so helpful for me
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Sam on 19/05/2020 at 09:52

This is really straightforward tip. Thanks for sharing!
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Mike P on 06/08/2020 at 18:05

Great solution thanks
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John McMahon on 04/11/2020 at 01:54

Thank you also for the reference to notepad++ – great product for these purposes!
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Samantha S on 12/01/2021 at 22:03

Oh that’s so simple and clever, thanks!
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Sylvia on 22/01/2021 at 22:00

You rock, thank you so much for these pretty simple and clear instructions
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Rodrigo on 24/02/2021 at 17:04

Thanks a lot, this was very useful!
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Pavel Bělík on 02/03/2021 at 14:19

Thank you! It was great.
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amir on 11/08/2021 at 08:41

this technique helped me, thanks
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Eric on 22/04/2022 at 14:34

great solution, fast and effective
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karthi on 23/07/2022 at 10:08

Thank you so musch, you saved my time
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Nasser mohammad on 15/12/2022 at 21:24

this really helped me, great technique. Thank you!
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- Nina on 16/12/2022 at 13:21
  
  I’m glad it helped! You’re welcome
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Roger on 26/01/2023 at 17:40

I am so grateful!
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- Nina on 26/01/2023 at 18:35
  
  I’m glad it helped 🙂
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