Export and import for templates/stories

[marbd3]

Feature Description

An export and import of the template feature is missing will it be added anytime soon?

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Acceptance Criteria

Implementation Brief

[ernee]

@marbd3 great suggestion! We've been discussing some export possibilities in this issue as well.

How would you use an export/ import feature?

Would it be similar to the request linked to export the assets used in the story or would it be more for importing/ exporting a story (template) from one WordPress site to another?

Feel free to elaborate and we'll share this with the team!

[theMikebal]

I think the challenge is that people are already building stories for other social channels from a mobile device or on another platform. Getting the assets from the cloud and then into WP is another step and then rebuilding the whole thing for web feels too duplicative. It would be great to see this functionality exist or work in a way where social media sharing tools or automation platforms like Zapier could allow users to take out some of the duplicity.

[dreamofabear]

This could also be generalized for stories to support one or multiple stories to be exported into a file and imported into a different WP instance.

• WP's standard export/import tool skips the posts_content_filtered field that contains story JSON data. The 3P plugins WP Import Export Lite and WP All Export also appear to skip this field. Are there other WP export/import plugins or tools that could accomplish this?
• Exact usage requirements (e.g. user mapping, missing table references) are TBD.

[dreamofabear]

Relevant support thread: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copy-story-to-another-instance/

[mxbclang]

Noting that we've received a few requests for this in support recently:

• https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-and-import-20/
• https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-import-of-web-stories-between-2-wp-website/

[mdotk]

I think the challenge is that people are already building stories for other social channels from a mobile device or on another platform. Getting the assets from the cloud and then into WP is another step and then rebuilding the whole thing for web feels too duplicative. It would be great to see this functionality exist or work in a way where social media sharing tools or automation platforms like Zapier could allow users to take out some of the duplicity.

Following this issue along. The above sums it up nicely for me!

[mariyanh]

Has someone managed to export/import stories so far with some plugin?
Just to mention that I don't want to export/import the whole database...

Once I used some plugin for exporting custom post types and did the job but I don't remember it now.

Thanks...

[mikezielonka]

Nope!

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[skimboardbr]

Hello
Any news?

I am very interested in exporting Stories from other tools/plugins and importing them into Google Web Stories

[swissspidy]

Importing from other story creation tools is not possible as all these tools use different data formats.

[swissspidy]

If you‘re interested in seeing this feature, please add an emoji reaction to the original issue description at the top instead of leaving comments. It‘s less noisy.

[bmattb]

Added the NC label as this is something that team is also now requesting

[wmosquini2]

I was able to export WebStories with a little help from Adam.

I had already managed to import the content, but the Stories were not displayed in the editor, even though the content was there. That's where Adam gave the light at the end of the tunnel commenting that the Wordpress export tool doesn't export the "post_content_filtered" bank column. To solve it, I created a query to export the column data from the old bank and imported it into the new one. Of course, it wasn't 100%, but it worked on 98% of the Stories created.

It would be very helpful to include this native export/import tool in the plugin. This is extremely important in cases where it is necessary to create a new installation of Wordpress. Despite being a simple solution, it required good hours of work to reach the final result.

[eo48Oakes]

I was able to export WebStories with a little help from Adam.

I had already managed to import the content, but the Stories were not displayed in the editor, even though the content was there. That's where Adam gave the light at the end of the tunnel commenting that the Wordpress export tool doesn't export the "post_content_filtered" bank column. To solve it, I created a query to export the column data from the old bank and imported it into the new one. Of course, it wasn't 100%, but it worked on 98% of the Stories created.

It would be very helpful to include this native export/import tool in the plugin. This is extremely important in cases where it is necessary to create a new installation of Wordpress. Despite being a simple solution, it required good hours of work to reach the final result.

Hello @swissspidy, please help me to get that query or any alternative method to export/import web stories so that the webstories could be editable.

Thanks

[kaushik0x7d2]

Hey @swissspidy, is there any update on this feature?

[swissspidy]

Not at this time. Any updates would be posted here.

What is your use case for exporting & importing stories?

[kaushik0x7d2]

Import custom templates, able to edit it and export the code to add to the website.