WordPress currently supports importing data in the form of posts (articles) and most of the details or features supported by the content publishing platform.
Many of the following Content Import scripts can be found under
Tools →
Import
menu of your WordPress administration interface.
If you run into specific problems, a search on the
WordPress Support Forum
will likely lead to a solution, or try the Codex
FAQ
. Users of a blogging system not listed here who wish to switch to WordPress are invited to ask for help in the
WordPress Support Forum
as well.
If your exported file is very large, the import script may run into your host's configured memory limit for PHP.
A message like "Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted" indicates that the script can't successfully import your XML file under the current PHP memory limit. If you have access to the
php.ini
file, you can manually increase the limit; if you do not (your WordPress installation is hosted on a shared server, for instance), you will have to break your exported XML file into several smaller pieces and run the import script one at a time.
If the import process is run again with the same data file after stopping midway through, it could result in duplicate data, missing data or other errors in the destination database.
For those with shared hosting, the best alternative may be to consult hosting support to determine the safest approach for running the import. A host may be willing to temporarily lift the memory limit and/or run the process directly from their end.
Download file, remove .txt extension, and upload to your
wp-admin
directory
Run the script and input your b2evo database name and password
Import via Movable Type Export Format
The second approach is to re-skin a b2evolution blog so that when its source is viewed it appears to be in the
Movable Type export format
. This approach, which should work for all versions of Wordpress, and all recent versions of b2evolution is described in full on
this page
.
Users of
WordPress 2.2
and above can import from Blogger. Earlier versions
cannot
import from Blogger because "New Blogger" was released by Google, invalidating all the old importers. Only WordPress 2.2 and later has support for "New Blogger".
If you haven't already, you must be using New Blogger and a Google Account on Blogger. If you are still using Old Blogger, the importer will not work, but there is a
helpful online tool
that converts legacy Blogger Atom exports into Wordpress WXR export files.
To start the Blogger importer, go to
Tools →
Import
→ Blogger
.
For WordPress versions 2.0.2 to 2.6.5, go to
Manage → Import → Blogger
.
To start the Greymatter importer, go to
Tools →
Import
→ Greymatter
.
For WordPress versions 2.0.2 to 2.6.5, go to
Manage → Import → Greymatter
.
Jogger.pl
There's
a script
that allows to import entries and comments from
Jogger.pl
- Polish, Jabber-powered weblog system. Comments and manual are in Polish (since Jogger is mostly polish), but if you have any questions, feel free to ask in
comments
on
author's blog
.
To start the LiveJournal importer, go to
Tools →
Import
→ LiveJournal
(Version 2.7 and later. Older version requires exporting entries, so it's better to use the newer importer).
There is another script, which has been updated to work with WordPress 2.0:
Pivot importer for WordPress
. It tries to preserve users and categories.
However, Pivot also has an excellent RSS support and that WordPress can import RSS.
Example
.
Finally, the Pivot developers have provided an
export script
to the generic Movable Type (MT) import format. Then use the exported file as described under
Movable Type
below.
Conversion script to migrate Postnuke 0.75+ to Wordpress 2.5+ Taxonomy
Migrate from PostNuke to Wordpress
. Detailed wizard to migrate topics, sections, posts & users.
Movable Type
To start the Movable Type importer, go to
Tools →
Import
→ Movable Type and TypePad
.
For WordPress versions 2.0.2 to 2.6.5, go to
Manage → Import → Movable Type
.
Ultimate NucleusCMS to any blog migration
: Adding any blogging engine, including wordpress, to a nucleus directory, keeping all old URLs intact and without issues with images etc.
You can fairly easily import data from Roller using the MovableType import script. First, you need to export your blog from Roller database, then use it to create entries in your new blog. Pictures you need to copy to appropriate content directory yourself. Modify the $user, $oldresources, $newresources, and $connection variables in a beginning of script, store it on somewhere on you web host where php execution is allowed, and you will get the dump of your Roller blog in MovableType Import format in return. You can just use wget to store it into file. Then follow the instructions for MovableType import...
Importing From Roller
is complete and comprehensive. This should work for Roller pre-2.0 release. After Version 2.0, the comment table is changed to roller_comment. Just change the select statement to roller_comment.
(Update March 31, 2007)
The WordPress
textpattern.php
import script seems to be buggy. Therefore, another script (hack of the included one included in WordPress) and step-by-step importing instructions are to be
found over here
.
Tumblr
Tumblr has no export feature. You can import its RSS feed, or try one of the migration tools below.
Tumblr2wp
Creates a WXR (WordPress eXtended RSS) file from your tumblr site which can be imported into WordPress.
Tumblr2wordpress.com
Creates an XML with all the content, comments, tags and files that can be imported into WordPress.
Not suitable for WordPress 3.0 or above.
To import from a WordPress export file into a WordPress blog follow these steps.
Log into that blog as an administrator.
Go to Manage: Import (or Tools:Import in 2.7+)in the blog's admin panels.
Choose "WordPress" from the list.
Upload this file using the form provided on that page.
You will first be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user
WordPress will then import each of the posts, comments, and categories contained in this file into your blog
Xanga
xanga.r
is a program that parses xanga pages to get the post and comments. Then it can output them in the WordPress rss 2.0 xml format for WordPress to import.
Xanga Archives
If you had paid for Xanga Premium and saved your archive files before switiching to WordPress, an importer can be
found here
.
These are the instructions to import your posts from Zoomblog:
Go to your Zoomblog account and export your blog data (it generates an XML file).
Download the Zoomblog importer
from here
. Unzip it, and upload the file zoomblog.php to your wp-admin/import directory.
Login into WordPress and go to Manage:Import:Zoomblog.
Choose the Zoomblog XML export file and it should be done.
It imports all posts and comments, and creates new categories, though, unfortunately, there's no way to figure out the proper category name, so you'll have to edit them afterwards. It does not deal with multiple authors.
Importing from an RSS feed
2.0.x
2.0 introduced this as an option in the Admin menu under "Import".
First, save the RSS feed you wish to import someplace on your local machine. This would be the source and would come from the site that has the content you wish to import into your WP blog. A simple way to get the feed into a text file is to find the RSS link for that site, click it and view it in your browser, then copy/paste that to a text file. Or, of course, use your preferred tools.
Click the "Browse" button and navigate to the file containing the feed you wish to import and click "Import" to let it run.
Note:
Depending on the feed and format, you may not get the entire thing loaded on the first attempt. One option is to determine how much got imported (Manage -> Posts) and remove those sections from your saved RSS file and then re-import. Lather, rinse, repeat as necessary.
Note that newlines will be converted to <br />.
Therefore be sure there is no newlines between any <p>..</p>s.
Pre 2.x
WordPress also has a generic RSS importer, which you can find in your WordPress source at
wp-admin/import-rss.php
. If your current blogging system can export in a valid RSS format, you can import that into WordPress.
Importing the RSS data is done by running the
import-rss.php
script from the server. For security reasons you have to edit the script to point to the file where the RSS data is stored.
If you have your blog at
http://example.com
, you can place your file, for example
oldblog.xml
, in the
wp-admin
directory on your site.
Edit
import-rss.php
by changing the value of
RSSFILE
in the beginning of the script.
After you have changed this, run the script by accessing the script with your browser, in this case you’ll go to
http://example.com/wp-admin/import-rss.php
.
If the script finds your file, a link marked
Begin RSS Import
occur, and by pressing this link the import will start.
The RSS data are now imported, and you can remove the RSS file and restore the script.
Importing from [X]HTML
Using trial and error one can make an e.g., perl script to concatenate [X]HTML files
as RSS <item>s, saving into a single
file.xml, then import that as RSS. Note however to first remove any newlines between <p>..</p>s,
as mentioned above.
The format allowed is quite simple in fact. Just make each HTML file
into an <item> as below and concatenate them together:
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<category>Kites</category>
<category>Taiwan</category>
<title>Fun times</title>
<content:encoded><p>What great times we had...</p><p>And then Bob...</p></content:encoded>
</item>
<item>...
Just be sure the <content:encoded> line is a single long line with no
newlines embedded.
This tool can convert Blogger export into WordPress format. It also supports conversion from Movable Type & LiveJournal to Blogger format. You can take the Blogger format then convert it again into WordPress format.
