Hi, sometimes you only have available from backups an old wordpress post table sql xml file, which you might want to convert to a word doc file for say rewriting for another web site.

The following simple snippet of code I have used successfully to extract each posts title and contents (not excerpt) and add to a html file.

Starting point was a post sql xml file called bhrt.me.wp_posts.xml.. dumped from a mysql database (wp_posts table)/

Script could be called anything, but I called it ‘extract_posts.php’

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<?php
 
// replace bhrt.me.wp_posts.xml with your post table sql xml filename
 
$fname = "bhrt.me.wp_posts.xml";
 
$xml=simplexml_load_file($fname);
 
echo("<html>\n
<head>\n
<meta charset=\"UTF-8\">\n
<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\"/>\n
</head>\n
<body>\n");
 
foreach ($xml->database->table as $table) {
$post_title="";
$post_type="";
$post_content="";
 
foreach ($table->column as $column) {
 
    switch((string) $column['name']) {
    case 'post_title':
        $post_title = $column;
        break;
    case 'post_content':
        $post_content = $column;
        break;
    case 'post_type':
        $post_type = $column;
        break;
    }
 
}
 
if((($post_type=='post')||($post_type=='page'))&&($post_content!="")) {
 
if(stripos($post_content,'[contact-form')===false) {
 
echo "<div>\n";
 
echo "<p><h2>".$post_title."</h2></p>\n";
 
echo("<br>\n");
 
$post_content = preg_replace("/<img[^>]+\>/i", "", $post_content); 
 
echo "<p>".$post_content."</p>\n";
 
echo "</div>\n";
 
echo("<br>\n");
 
}
 
}
 
}
 
echo("</body>\n
</html>");
 
?>

Run locally via ‘php extract_posts.php > output-filename.html’ Then load the html file into your word or openoffice package – tested with libreoffice.