Wordpress: Advanced Custom Fields: Exporting and Importing fields to a new wordpress install

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Reuben picture Reuben · May 6, 2014 · Viewed 38.1k times · Source

I've created two custom field groups in a temporary wordpress install and would now like to use the export of them to import them into a new wordpress install, however it doesn't seem like there's a way.

How have others done this?

Answer

doublesharp picture doublesharp · May 6, 2014

Advanced Custom Fields stores the field groups as Custom Post Types, so the XML export is compatible with the standard WordPress XML format, and can be imported using the WordPress Importer plugin.

You can also get to the install directly by visiting /wp-admin/import.php on your site (under Admin > Tools > Import) and clicking the WordPress link at the bottom. Once installed you just need to import the XML export file you created for the ACF field groups.

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