Options

The Options row exports site settings in an options.json inside the bundle, set on the other site when the import ends.

Three ways to choose

• One by one — every option the site has (search, pages), each with its size and an IDs mapped on import badge when it holds a post ID.
• By group — filter the panel by a group and export it: Basics (suggested), Reading, General, Permalinks, Discussion, Media, Privacy, Theme customizations, WooCommerce pages. A group is resolved when the file is made, so it follows the active theme.
• All — every option that may be exported.

On the new screen, checking an option in the panel adds it at once (the Selection filter shows the ones chosen); groups and all come from saved defaults or the classic screen. With nothing chosen yet, the panel opens on Basics: title, tagline, language, time zone, date formats, homepage and posts page, posts per page, permalinks, theme customizations and site icon.

Linked settings

Some options point to a post: page_on_front, page_for_posts, wp_page_for_privacy_policy, site_icon, WooCommerce’s page IDs. When the post is exported, those options can come along — with the ones they need, like show_on_front.

On the new screen they are suggested: choose the homepage and the unchecked Options row shows 2 suggested (page_on_front and show_on_front, counted, not named). Check the row and they go with the export; the row still says 2 suggested (plus groups or N items you chose). Uncheck one of them in its panel and the rest become plain items — 1 item. Leave the row unchecked and they don’t go.

The setting decides when they are suggested or added:

Mode (Settings → Export)	When
When items are checked, and on export (default)	Suggested in the Options row when you check an item with a role; on the classic screen and in the ability, also added when the file is made — for items exported by filters or with all content
When items are checked	Suggested from the side panel’s selection
On export	Only when the file is made (classic screen, ability)
Never	You choose every option yourself

Never exported

Site URLs (siteurl, home), the admin email, keys and salts, active_plugins, roles (<prefix>user_roles), who may register and as what (users_can_register, default_role), cron, rewrite_rules, database versions, mail server credentials, the plugin’s own settings, and every transient. Plugins add theirs with eizport_denied_options; WordPress’s own can’t be removed.

An import never sets WordPress’s own either, whatever the bundle holds: a bundle is a file anyone could have written.

IDs on import

options.json lists, under post_ids, the options that hold a post ID. On import each one gets the ID the importer gave that post; if the post wasn’t imported, the option is left out rather than pointing to the wrong thing. theme_mods_<theme> values are mapped too (logo, menus).