WordPress Importer

WordPress Importer

Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.
Rating:
3.1
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Active Installations:
3000000+
Last Updated:
Mar 25, 2025
WordPress Version:
5.2 or higher
Tested up to:
6.7.2

Easy Content Migration

Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and more from a WordPress export file.

Customizable Import Filters

Control user creation, attachment importing, and file size limits with flexible import filters.

Seamless Integration

Hook into import start and end actions to customize the import process and integrate with other plugins or themes.

Hassle-Free Migration

Transfer your WordPress content effortlessly with the WordPress Importer plugin.

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

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

gar nicht so schlecht

By Maxim (mxfx) on March 27, 2025

gar nicht so schlecht wie die andere hier den Plugin bewerten.
+ Beiträge wurden vollständig importiert
+ die Seiten sehen schief aus, aber wenn man aus einem Theme in ein anderen importiert, rechnet man auch damit, dass die Seiten nicht perfekt aussehen.

..und dass alles übrigens war kostenlos ..

funktioniert

By Klaus Kullmann (amafino) on November 18, 2024

War beim Erstellen hilfreich. Produkte,Bilder und Kunden importiert; viel Handarbeit und Wissen nötig. Bestellungen lassen sich leider nicht importieren.

So much bugs

By liamanderson1993 on July 18, 2024

We tried this multiple times but not working. It has some conflict with hosting and our hosting company suggests not to use this plugin. It wasted so many hours in the process and now I need to find another alternative.

Getting better and better

By mrkenobi on November 4, 2023

I remember the time when this plugin was partially useless, but today I managed to export all of my posts and images easily and import them to my new installation. So, there was no need for a 3rd party plugin.
This is useful for cluttered databases: when you transfer all your posts and images to new installation, then your database will have nothing but posts and images. Light and fast.
Bye

Excellent

By ianpeterharding on October 24, 2023

Works very well indeed!

Works well for moving posts between blogs.

By kelson (Kelson) on October 6, 2023

Good for the main use cases: restore from backup, and moving posts between blogs. Unfortunately the image import doesn't seem to work (WordPress 6.3 with plugin 0.8.1), which makes it a pain to clean up image-heavy posts.

One thing I'd like to do with this that I can't is to import another copy of a cross-post and merge the comment threads. As it is, the best I can do is import the duplicate copy and then use another plugin (or dig into the database) to move the comments around.

Very helpful

By Bulat2 on August 10, 2023

Needed to copy the content of the old website to the one which is developed from scratch - and it worked!

PERFECT BACKUP for Categories Users Comments

By JEFF BAYGENTS (jeffbaygents) on July 21, 2023

I've used this just a few times in the past 18 months. And one time it was an incredible, urgent need as there were no server backups available from a web host (not with them anymore). Another time I made a mistake and deleted some comments.

Anyway, this is only the 2nd review for this plugin within the past year or so. And I see a lot of negative scored posts. After reading them, I noticed a number of the 1-star reviews seemed to be user error. I've been in IT Management, development, and consulting for 4 decades. I use very little custom coding on my sites because, in my past experience, there are far less issues during updates and upgrades. So, with that said, I have also noticed there are a lot of optional settings to decide when using this tool. And many are preselected that I unselect. I recommend taking your time when using this tool and defining your own settings every time you use it.

I use about 20 plugins and there's no interference with any of them. But, I am careful about which plugins I retain. Also, I use this plugin just create backups or to perform restores from them. Then, I uninstall it until I need it again. For example, I'm here today because I'm getting ready to use it again as I'm about to make some major category changes. It will be very handy to use this tool to perform backups (and any needed restores) instead of using a site restore that will reset recent work on posts or pages.

I use this as an additional backup and as an archive for all my sites. It's always saved me when I needed it and I've found it to be reliable and solid. It's been absolutely perfect for me when performing work on tags and categories so I don't have to use a site restore.

Works as expected

By Ron the Web Guy (ronthewebguy) on February 13, 2023

I love this plugin. Super easy to use and works as expected for a "free" plugin.

Not sure why there are so many bad reviews as this plugin is super helpful.

My guess/assumption on the bad reviews is that people are having issues with their webhost and that is reflected in their experience/reviews with this plugin???

Must-have PlugIn with some lacks

By Christian (dreikubik) on October 6, 2022

This is a very useful plugin and a must-have within every WordPress instance. There is one thing I hoped the latest update to version 0.8 would have fixed. Unfortunately not. If you have to refresh your WordPress Website, you can export all content with these PlugIn and also import it in your fresh install. Works great! BUT, why is the nesting of categories flattened after import? I'd be so damn happy if this PlugIn would keep the structure of nested categories in the next update, that I'd rate it with 5 stars :-) I'm using a PlugIn that depends on nested categories. As this PlugIn created thousands of categories that would require days of work to nest that categories as it is supposed to be. So I can't do a WordPress refresh for that website, even though it's more than overdue. Please make importing content from WordPress to WordPress keep the nesting of categories for all post types' categories...
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