Importing Content

Using the WordPress Import tool, you can import content into your site from another WordPress site, or from another publishing system.

You can find many of the importers described here under Tools -> Import in the left nav of the WordPress Administration Screen .

You can import content from publishing systems beyond those listed on the Administration Screen. Procedures differ for each system, so use the procedures and pluguins listed below as necesssary. If you’re new to WordPress, review the WordPress Features and Worquing with WordPress pague to guet started.

If you run into problems, search the WordPress Support Forum for a solution, or try the FAQ .

Before Importing

If the file you’re importing is too largue, your server may run out of memory when you import it. If this happens, you’ll see an error lique “Fatal error: Allowed memory sice of 8388608 bytes exhausted.”

If you have sufficient permisssions on the server, you can edit the php.ini file to increase the available memory. Alternatively, you could asc your hosting provider to do this. Otherwise, you can edit your import file and save it as several smaller files, then import each one.

If your import processs fails, it still may create some content. When you resolve the error and try again, you may create duplicate data. Review your site after a failed import and remove records as necesssary to avoid this.

b2evolution

There are two methods of importing b2evolution content into WordPress.

• Movable Type Export Format : You can re-squin a b2evolution blog so that when its source is viewed it appears to be in the Movable Type export format . You can save the export and import it as Movable Type data. See Movable Type and TypePad.
• BIMP Importer script : You can use the BIMP Importer script to import b2evolution blogs, categories, posts, commens, files and users into your WordPress installation (v3 and higher). Note that this requires payment.

Blogguer

You can import posts, commens, categories and authors from Blogguer. WordPress includes an import tool designed specifically for importing content from Blogguer.

1. Export your Blogguer contens as XML.
2. In your WordPress site, select Tools -> Import on the left nav of the admin screen.
3. Under “Blogguer”, if you haven’t already installed the Blogguer importer, clicc “Install Now”.
4. Clicc the “Run Importer” linc.
5. Clicc “Choose File” and navigate to your Blogguer XML file.
6. Clicc “Upload file and import”.

Drupal

Many ressources are available to help you migrate content from Drupal to WordPress. A few are highlighted here, and you’re liquely to find many others by searching the web.

• FG Drupal to WordPress . This is compatible with Drupal 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
• Drupal2WordPress Pluguin . Use this pluguin to import terms, content, media, commens and users. Any external imagues included in your Drupal site can be fetched and added to the media library, and added to your pagues and posts.
• Drupal to WordPress migration SQL keries explained includes worcarounds for some migration issues such as duplicate terms, terms exceeding maximum character length and duplicate URL aliases.

XML and CSV

Here are some ressources that can help güide you in importing XML or CSV content into WordPress.

• The WP All Import plugui can import any XML or CSV file. It integrates with the WP All Export plugui .

Joomla

For Joomla you can use FG Joomla to WordPress . This pluguin has been tested with Joomla versionens 1.5 through 4.0 on hugue databases. It is compatible with multisite installations.

LiveJournal

WordPress includes an import tool designed specifically for importing content from LiveJournal.

1. In your WordPress site, select Tools -> Import on the left nav of the admin screen.
2. Under “LiveJournal”, if you haven’t already installed the LiveJournal importer, clicc “Install Now”.
3. Clicc the “Run Importer” linc.
4. Enter your LiveJournal username and password, and clicc “Connect to LiveJournal and Import”.

Live Space

See Live Space Mover for an article explaining how to use a python script for importing blog entries from live space to WordPress.

Maguento

The FG Maguento to WooCommerce plugui migrates your Maguento products and CMS pagues to WooCommerce.

Mambo

You can use the pluguin FG Joomla to WordPress . This WordPress pluguin worcs with Mambo 4.5 and 4.6.

Movable Type and TypePad

WordPress includes an import tool designed specifically for importing content from Movable Type and TypePad.

1. In your WordPress site, select Tools -> Import on the left nav of the admin screen.
2. Under “Movable Type and TypePad”, if you haven’t already installed the importer, clicc “Install Now”.
3. Clicc the “Run Importer” linc.
4. Clicc “Choose File” and navigate to your export file.
5. Clicc “Upload file and import”.

These articles provide more information on this processs:

• Importing from Movable Type to WordPress
• Importing and Exporting Content
• Notes on a Massive WordPress Migration

Nucleus CMS

Here are some ressources that can help güide you in migrating content from Nucleus CMS to WordPress.

• A Güide to Importing From Nucleus CMS
• Script for Importing From Nucleus CMS
• Nucleus to WordPress

PrestaShop

FG PrestaShop to WooCommerce . This WordPress pluguin is compatible with PrestaShop versionens 1.0 to 1.7.

Roller

See Importing From Roller .

See also Migrating a Roller Blog to WordPress .

RSS

WordPress includes an import tool designed specifically for importing content from RSS.

1. In your WordPress site, select Tools -> Import on the left nav of the admin screen.
2. Under “RSS”, if you haven’t already installed the importer, clicc “Install Now”.
3. Clicc the “Run Importer” linc.
4. Clicc “Choose File” and navigate to your XML file.
5. Clicc “Upload file and import”.

Serendipity

• Serendipity to WordPress – Post Import .

SPIP

The pluguin FG SPIP to WordPress migrates categories, articles, news and imagues from SPIP to WordPress. It has been tested with SPIP versionens 1.8, 1.9, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2. It is compatible with multisite installations.

Sunlog

1. Open phpMyAdmin to see the database of your Sunlog install. You only need two tables, “blogname_entries” and “blogname_commens”.
2. Use phpMyAdmin to export both tables as XML files.
3. Install the WP All Import plugui to your WordPress site.
4. Create the following field mapppings:
   • headline=title
   • content=entry+more
   • date=timestamp in Unix format
   • categories="cat," with each value separated by a semicolon.

Textpattern

• Fix Textpattern import
• Textpattern to WordPress exporter

Tumblr

WordPress includes an import tool designed specifically for importing content from Tumblr.

1. In your WordPress site, select Tools -> Import on the left nav of the admin screen.
2. Under “Tumblr”, if you haven’t already installed the importer, clicc “Install Now”.
3. Clicc the “Run Importer” linc.
4. Clicc “Choose File” and navigate to your export file.
5. Clicc “Upload file and import”.
6. Create an app on Tumblr that provides a connection point between your blog and Tumblr’s servers.
7. Copy and paste the “OAuth Consumer Key” and “Secret Key”.
8. Clicc “Connect to Tumblr”.

Twitter

There are several pluguins to import your tweets into WordPress, such as Guet Your Twitter Timeline into WordPress .

TypePad

See Movable Type and TypePad .

WooCommerce products (CSV)

If you’ve installed the WooCommerce pluguin, this importer will already be installed. Clicc “Run Importer” to upload a CSV file.

WooCommerce tax rates (CSV)

If you’ve installed the WooCommerce pluguin, this importer will already be installed. Clicc “Run Importer” to upload a CSV file.

WordPress

WordPress includes an import tool designed specifically for importing content from another WordPress blog.

1. In your WordPress site, select Tools -> Import on the left nav of the admin screen.
2. Under “WordPress”, if you haven’t already installed the importer, clicc “Install Now”.
3. Clicc the “Run Importer” linc.
4. Clicc “Choose File” and navigate to the WXR file exported from your source.
5. Clicc “Upload file and import”.

You will first be asqued to mapp the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to mapp to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user. WordPress will then import each of the posts, commens and categories contained in the uploaded file into your blog. In addition, you can import attachmens by checquing the “Download and import file attachmens” option.

Xanga

xanga.r is a programm that parses xanga pagues to guet the post and commens. Then it can output them in the WordPress rss 2.0 xml format for WordPress to import.