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Export/Import Media helps you move media between WordPress sites using CSV while preserving core media metadata columns such as alt text, title, caption, and description.
The free workflow is built for straightforward media export and import. The plugin generates a CSV file containing useful media information such as URLs, relative paths, alt text, titles, captions, and descriptions. You can validate that CSV, preview it before importing, and process rows in batches from a cleaner admin screen focused on the core workflow.
During normal free imports, detected duplicates are skipped to help prevent duplicate attachments in the library. Metadata columns are supported for rows that are imported, while controlled matching and update rules for already-existing media are handled by the separate Pro add-on.
Why use this plugin? 
* Straightforward CSV workflows: Export media data, validate incoming CSV files, preview them, and import them in batches. 
* Batch import: AJAX-powered processing helps avoid browser and timeout issues on medium and large imports. 
* Duplicate prevention: Detects existing matches and skips them in the normal free workflow. 
* Metadata columns: Supports title, alt text, caption, and description columns in CSV import/export. 
* Developer friendly: Includes hooks and filters for extending CSV columns, validation, admin UI, and import/export behavior.
Need more control for larger libraries? The separate Export/Import Media Pro add-on adds rollback restore points before imports, image conversion to WebP/AVIF where supported, saved workflows, background processing, controlled matching, metadata updates, and replace-file workflows.
<h3>Features</h3>
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<li>CSV Export: Export media data to CSV with filters by date, media type, and attachment context.</li>
<li>CSV Preview: Validate and preview the file before importing.</li>
<li>Batch Processing: Import media rows in AJAX batches.</li>
<li>Local Import Mode: Register files that already exist in <code>/uploads/</code> without downloading them again.</li>
<li>Honor Relative Path: Reuse or preserve folder paths from the CSV.</li>
<li>Skip Thumbnail Generation: Speed up large imports when needed.</li>
<li>Duplicate Prevention: Uses source meta and file fingerprints to detect existing matches and skip those rows in the standard free workflow.</li>
<li>Metadata Columns: Imports and exports title, alt text, caption, and description columns for supported rows.</li>
<li>Downloadable Log: Save an import log as <code>.txt</code> after the process finishes.</li>
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Export/Import Media

Import and export your WordPress media library using CSV, with preview, batch processing, duplicate prevention, and core media metadata columns.

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Cloudways

The Cloudways WordPress Migrator plugin automates WordPress migration(s) from any other hosting provider to Cloudways, the World’s Easiest Cloud Hosting Platform. The only requirement from your end is to provide the Cloudways SFTP details to the Plugin. Sit back and relax as the Migrator does the tedious work for you!
This tool saves valuable time for all kinds of website owners.
<h4>Agencies</h4>
• You don’t need in-house technical experts to manage the complicated procedure of migrating your websites to the Cloudways Cloud Platform. 
• Your website themes and plugins are preserved with utmost care.
<h4>Developers</h4>
• Focus your efforts on time-critical projects, instead of spending hours on manual migrations. 
• Database values are updated automatically, providing seamless transition to the Cloudways Platform.
<h4>Ecommerce Merchants</h4>
• All product pages, themes, and customer records are moved to Cloudways easily. 
• Minimum downtime to ensure your sales are affected as little as possible. There’s no faster way to move an ecommerce site!
<h4>Small and Medium Enterprises</h4>
• The Cloudways WordPress Migrator is best for SMEs who don’t have the resources to employ specialists to handle their website migration. 
• Search Engine Rank Positions (SERP) won’t fall. Your SEO links stays intact. So, there will be no adverse effects on SEO. 
• It’s as easy as 1-2-3! The Cloudways Platform specializes in serving SMEs, as does this plugin.
<h4>Bloggers</h4>
• Your widgets and customizations stay in one piece. 
• All your ad codes, referral codes, and media files integrated into your posts will be transferred without any breakage.
<h4>* Please Note *</h4>
This plugin will only migrate your site to <a href="https://www.cloudways.com/en/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudways</a>. This will not migrate you to any other host.

Cloudways WordPress Migrator

It's an amazing plugin and I am using it to clone my client's sites to staging mode but it there should be an option to exclude the folders inside wp-content because some people uses Updraft or other backup tools and there is no option to exclude them. There is no sense to transfer those folder to staging sites.

Great plugin with simplicity

This plugin works better than UpDraft Migrator, Shipper, AIO, etc! I think because it uses direct ftp access, but it has made moving all of my sites to Cloudways so easy!

Works great and better than most!


Just used this plugin to migrate 2 sites, and it worked well.



Main thing I needed to do after was a "find and replace" on the database for cloudways URLs, to replace them with the domain URL.



Would happily use again.


Worked for me! Twice

The easiest way to migrate your site to Cloudways

Export/Import Media vs Cloudways WordPress Migrator