Hi, sometimes you only have available from backups an old wordpress post table sql xml file, which you might want to convert to a word doc file for say rewriting for another web site.
The following simple snippet of code I have used successfully to extract each posts title and contents (not excerpt) and add to a html file.
Starting point was a post sql xml file called bhrt.me.wp_posts.xml.. dumped from a mysql database (wp_posts table)/
Script could be called anything, but I called it ‘extract_posts.php’
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 | <?php // replace bhrt.me.wp_posts.xml with your post table sql xml filename $fname = "bhrt.me.wp_posts.xml"; $xml=simplexml_load_file($fname); echo("<html>\n <head>\n <meta charset=\"UTF-8\">\n <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\"/>\n </head>\n <body>\n"); foreach ($xml->database->table as $table) { $post_title=""; $post_type=""; $post_content=""; foreach ($table->column as $column) { switch((string) $column['name']) { case 'post_title': $post_title = $column; break; case 'post_content': $post_content = $column; break; case 'post_type': $post_type = $column; break; } } if((($post_type=='post')||($post_type=='page'))&&($post_content!="")) { if(stripos($post_content,'[contact-form')===false) { echo "<div>\n"; echo "<p><h2>".$post_title."</h2></p>\n"; echo("<br>\n"); $post_content = preg_replace("/<img[^>]+\>/i", "", $post_content); echo "<p>".$post_content."</p>\n"; echo "</div>\n"; echo("<br>\n"); } } } echo("</body>\n </html>"); ?> |
Run locally via ‘php extract_posts.php > output-filename.html’ Then load the html file into your word or openoffice package – tested with libreoffice.