WordPress Importer Plugin - Import Posts, Pages, Comments, and More

About WordPress Importer

The WordPress Importer allows you to easily import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and more from a WordPress export file. It also provides filters and actions to customize the import process according to your needs. For more information and instructions, please refer to the documentation on Importing Content.

Frequently asked questions

What content can the WordPress Importer import?

The WordPress Importer can import posts, pages, custom post types, comments, comment meta, custom fields, post meta, categories, tags, terms from custom taxonomies, term meta, and authors from a WordPress export file.

Are there any filters available for the WordPress Importer?

Yes, there are filters such as 'import_allow_create_users' to control user creation, 'import_allow_fetch_attachments' to manage attachment importing, and 'import_attachment_size_limit' to set a maximum file size for attachments.

What actions can developers hook into with the WordPress Importer?

Developers can hook into 'import_start', which occurs after the export file upload and author settings are chosen, and 'import_end', which is called after the last output from the importer.

Changelog

0.8.4

Fix a bug on deserialization of untrusted input.
Update compatibility tested-up-to to WordPress 6.7.2.

0.8.3

Update compatibility tested-up-to to WordPress 6.7.
Update call to post_exists to include post_type in the query
PHP 8.4 compatibility fixes.

0.8.2

Update compatibility tested-up-to to WordPress 6.4.2.
Update doc URL references.
Adjust workflow triggers.

0.8.1

Update compatibility tested-up-to to WordPress 6.2.
Update paths to build status badges.

0.8

Update minimum WordPress requirement to 5.2.
Update minimum PHP requirement to 5.6.
Update compatibility tested-up-to to WordPress 6.1.
PHP 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 compatibility fixes.
Fix a bug causing blank lines in content to be ignored when using the Regex Parser.
Fix a bug resulting in a PHP fatal error when IMPORT_DEBUG is enabled and a category creation error occurs.
Improved Unit testing & automated testing.

0.7

Update minimum WordPress requirement to 3.7 and ensure compatibility with PHP 7.4.
Fix bug that caused not importing term meta.
Fix bug that caused slashes to be stripped from imported meta data.
Fix bug that prevented import of serialized meta data.
Fix file size check after download of remote files with HTTP compression enabled.
Improve accessibility of form fields by adding missing labels.
Improve imports for remote file URLs without name and/or extension.
Add support for wp:base_blog_url field to allow importing multiple files with WP-CLI.
Add support for term meta parsing when using the regular expressions or XML parser.
Developers: All PHP classes have been moved into their own files.
Developers: Allow to change IMPORT_DEBUG via wp-config.php and change default value to the value of WP_DEBUG.

0.6.4

Improve PHP7 compatibility.
Fix bug that caused slashes to be stripped from imported comments.
Fix for various deprecation notices including wp_get_http() and screen_icon().
Fix for importing export files with multiline term meta data.

0.6.3

Add support for import term metadata.
Fix bug that caused slashes to be stripped from imported content.
Fix bug that caused characters to be stripped inside of CDATA in some cases.
Fix PHP notices.

0.6.2

Add wp_import_existing_post filter, see Trac ticket #33721.

0.6

Support for WXR 1.2 and multiple CDATA sections
Post aren’t duplicates if their post_type’s are different

0.5.2

Double check that the uploaded export file exists before processing it. This prevents incorrect error messages when
an export file is uploaded to a server with bad permissions and WordPress 3.3 or 3.3.1 is being used.

0.5

Import comment meta (requires export from WordPress 3.2)
Minor bugfixes and enhancements

0.4

Map comment user_id where possible
Import attachments from wp:attachment_url
Upload attachments to correct directory
Remap resized image URLs correctly

0.3

Use an XML Parser if possible
Proper import support for nav menus
… and much more, see Trac ticket #15197

0.1

Initial release

WordPress Importer