xml export breaks sliders and layouts

[paddyp]

Exporting slider and builder content results in the sliders and layouts becoming empty. Name is still there.
I had a look in the database and the meta data seems to be gone
The same thing happened on my test server previously with different os, server, config, database, plugins.

Slide post_meta before starts something like this:
a:6:{s:27:”slide_6539886750bea667bb6d9″;a:3:{s:10:”slide_type”;s:5:”image”;s:5:”image”;a:13:{s:2:”id”;s:4:”1516″;s:3:”url”;s:72:”http://www.joebloggs.com/wp-content/uploads/winner-2012-922px.jpg”;s:9:”tb_medium”;s:80:”http://www.joebloggs.com/wp-content/uploads/winner-2012-922px-620×219.jpg”;s:8:”tb_small”;s:79:”http://www.joebloggs.com/wp-content/uploads/winner-2012-922px-195×68.jpg”;s:12:”slider-large”;s:72:”http://www.joebloggs.com/wp-content/uploads/winner-2012-922px.jpg”;s:13:”slider-staged”;s:80:”http://www.joebloggs.com/wp-content/uploads/winner-2012-922px-553×195.jpg”;s:12:”square_small”;s:80:”http://www.joebloggs.com/wp-content/uploads/winner-2012-922px-130×130.jpg”;s:14:”square_smaller”;s:78:”http://www.joebloggs.com/wp-content/uploads/winner-2012-922px-70×70.jpg”;s:15:”square_smallest”;s:78:”http://www.joebloggs.com/wp-content/uploads/winner-2012-922px-45×45.jpg”;s:12:”grid_fifth_1″;s:80:”http://www.joebloggs.com/wp-content/uploads/winner-2012-922px-200×125.jpg”;s:6:”grid_4″;s:80:”http://www.joebloggs.com/wp-content/uploads/winner-2012-922px-320×113.jpg”;s:6:”grid_3″;s:80:”http://www.joebloggs.com/wp-content/uploads/winner-2012-922px-240×150.jpg”;s:6:”grid_6″;s:80:”http://www.joebloggs.com/wp-content/uploads/winner-2012-922px-472×295.jpg”;}s:8:”position”;s:4:”full”;}

in the exported xml
a:5:{s:27:”slide_6539886750bea667bb6d9″;s:5:”Array”;s:28:”slide_23277260250bea6d931d03″;s:5:”Array”;s:28:”slide_72201746550bea714bd53c”;s:5:”Array”;s:28:”slide_34576118750bea74ab4050″;s:5:”Array”;s:29:”slide_187135525850b809401b105″;s:5:”Array”;}

This is very frustrating as I usually backup sql and xml and now when the backup runs the main page content vanishes.

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[Jason Bobich]

Hello,

Can you please tell me what version of the Barely Corporate theme you’ve been using to setup your website?

[paddyp]

Thats with 3.1.5 which is the latest on themeforest where I bought it.

[Jason Bobich]

Hmm, not sure on that one. On my end whether do I direct database backup/restore directly in phpMyAdmin or use WordPress’s built-in Import/Export tool, I’m not having any issues transferring sliders or custom layouts.

All of this data is just stored as meta data to a custom post type. The theme isn’t doing anything custom to save anything. It’s all just internal WordPress functions that handle how all of this data is saved.

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