Exporting
Menus
Classic menus with their items and theme locations, and block navigations, on their own row; what's suggested, what the import does with menus the other site already has, and the limits.
Navigation menus are exported on their own row, Menus, next to the content types. Its side panel lists both kinds:
| Kind | What it is | Goes with it |
|---|---|---|
| Classic menu | Appearance → Menus, in classic themes | Its items (with their order and submenus) and the theme locations it sits in |
| Navigation | The menu of a Navigation block, in block themes (Appearance → Editor → Navigation) | Its links |
Suggested
Without choosing anything, the row suggests:
- the classic menus that sit in a theme location (Primary, Footer…);
- the navigations the items chosen use in their content, and the ones the active theme’s templates and template parts use (a header’s Navigation block). A Navigation block that points to no menu shows the most recently published one: that one is suggested.
Choosing a classic menu suggests what its items link to — pages, posts, products — in their rows. Export them too: the importer leaves out a menu item whose page isn’t on the other site. Custom links always go.
On the other site
- Classic menus are created with their items, which point to the imported pages, posts and terms; submenus keep their parents. Each menu goes back to its theme locations, when the other site’s active theme has them (a block theme has none). The locations need Eizport on the other site: with the WordPress Importer alone, the menus come without them.
- Navigations are created, and the Navigation blocks that pointed to them — in the imported pages and in the other site’s templates — point to the new ones.
- A menu the other site already has (same slug) keeps its items, unless the import updates the items that already exist: then its items are replaced by the file’s, and it ends up as on this site. A navigation with the same slug is updated the same way.
From WP-CLI and the ability
wp eizport export --types=page --menus=classic:18,navigation:4
wp eizport export --menus=allThe eizport/export ability takes menus (classic, navigation or all); eizport/get-export-options lists them.
Limits
- All content (no type chosen) already carries every menu, as WordPress’s own export does; choosing menus there adds their theme locations.
- With no type checked and menus chosen, only the menus are exported.
- The classic screen (Tools → Export → Classic) has no Menus row.