Importing demo content fails

[joe423176]

Hello,
the import does not work, I get the following errors:

Failed to import post tag 
Failed to import post tag 
Failed to import post tag 
Failed to import post tag 
Failed to import post tag 
Failed to import post tag 
Failed to import post tag 
Failed to import post tag 
Failed to import post tag 
Failed to import post tag 
Failed to import post tag 
Failed to import 
Failed to import 
Failed to import 
Failed to import 
Failed to import 
Failed to import 
Failed to import 
Failed to import 
Failed to import 
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: one-page
Menu item skipped due to invalid menu slug: home-2

I had to set max_execution_time and max_input_time to 900 to even get the process to finish eventually.

Right now the result is complete chaos, some of the content doesn’t even have a user set.

Can you help me fix this?

Wordpress is version 4.8, but I’ve tried 4.7 to no avail.

Best regards

[Veena]

This looks like an importer issue since the menu items are not being imported even with the default Twenty Sixteen theme activated. You should go ahead and create the menu manually. Should not take more than few minutes of them.

– https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide

If you still have trouble then pls share a temp login to your site as a private msg, we ll help you create sample menu items.

[joe423176]

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[joe423176]

So did you get a chance to look at it?

[joe423176]

*cough* Are you still here?

The pages show up fine so far but I’d still like to get rid of all errors, especially since the errors are not exactly clear on what doesn’t work.

[Raghavendra]

Sorry have been busy with a product release and could not reply. I did try import on your server again and on our dev machines irrespective of the theme used. These exact errors occur with Twenty Sixteen theme activated. I wouldn’t worry too much about them and just focus on theme functions as long as you have enough demo data in place to get started on the site.

I did look at the source code of the wordpress importer plugin and also tried to find answers to the exact same issues on wordpress.org. We have so many complaining about these but no one answering why these errors exist. The best understanding I have from the source code is that this is something to do with compatibility of some minor elements like post tag, custom post type terms and menu items demo data with the latest version of the importer plugin. The demo site was created about 2 years ago and over a period of time the wordpress importer plugin has changed too but without ensuring that backwards compatibility is maintained and data is upgraded. In a way it is good for your site that these data are not being imported if they are old format. We can delete the DB and recreate the entire site to get rid of these errors but that is too much of work for now since the errors are not really big.

Do let us know if you still have any concerns.

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