Copy Post

Copy Post removes the tedium of having to copy content, comments, and tags manually from one instance to another. It also preserves the original post author and date.

Copy Post was originally written when we were preparing to launch a public blog and wanted to pre-populate it with content from our in-office blog that we had been using for the past two years. If our marketing team thinks that something originally posted to our in-office blog would be helpful or meaningful to others outside of our company, they can easily copy it to the public blog.
Copy Post could also be used in a situation where multiple WordPress instances are used in a development/staging/production setup.

First, a few assumptions and caveats.

• You must have access to the MySQL database of the destination blog.
• The a…