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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 Screens.
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.
To help you understand the differences between WordPress and other existing software, we recommend you review the WordPress Features and more on Working with WordPress.
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.
To import from Atlassian Confluence, export the content to HTML pages. Then, use the HTML Import 2 plugin.
Instructions:
After Importing
The script for importing b2 posts to WordPress was included in the versions up to 1.5.2 (wordpress/wp-admin/import-b2.php).
There are two methods of importing a b2evolution install into WordPress described in this section.
Import via Movable Type Export Format
One 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.
For WordPress v3 and higher
Another approach is to us a script that imports b2evolution blogs, categories, posts, comments, files and users into existing WordPress installation. This is an easy way to migrate a complete b2evolution install into WordPress. Note that this requires payment. BIMP Importer script.
You can import posts, comments, and categories from a Blogger blog and migrate authors to WordPress users.
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.
Also see the Google Blog Converters section.
In case the above methods don't work, you can try Google Blog Converters.
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.
You can connect directly to LiveJournal and import all entries and comments into WordPress.
Also see the Google Blog Converters section.
See the Joomla section.
You can import posts and comments from a Movable Type.
Also see the Google Blog Converters section.
An article on how to migrate Plone content into Wordpress via Movable Type format.
Use WordPress.com's Posterous importer, then export/import as a WXR (WordPress eXtended RSS).
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...
Sunlog is old and has not been maintained for quite a while. Fortunately, you can import to WordPress, though it will take a little hacking.
The script for importing Textpattern CMS posts into your WordPress blog may be found on the WordPress Forum on this forum thread.
2/26/2015: See the Textpattern to WordPress exporter (create a WordPress-format export file from a Textpattern blog) at GitHub: https://github.com/drewm/textpattern-to-wordpress
You can import posts from a Tumblr blog. Install Tumblr Importer and follow the instructions.
For more detail refer Tumblr Importer page.
There are several plugins to import your tweets into WordPress, such as Ozh' Tweet Archiver
The Importing from Movable Type to WordPress works for TypePad blogs, too. The only difference is in the process of exporting entries from the TypePad blog. Once you have the exported entries, follow the instructions in Importing from Movable Type to WordPress to complete the import into WordPress.
Use WordPress.com's Vox importer, then export/import as a WXR (WordPress eXtended RSS).
To import from a WordPress export file (WXR) into a WordPress blog follow these steps.
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.
Use WordPress.com's Yahoo! 360 importer, then export/import as a WXR (WordPress eXtended RSS).
zenphoto-to-wordpress.py is a python script to export galleries and comments to a standard WXR (WordPress eXtended RSS) file. See this article for details.
These are the instructions to import your posts from Zoomblog:
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.
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.
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:
<item> <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.
If your HTML is well-formed, you can try using the HTML Import 2 plugin.
A discussion in February 2011 on the wp-hackers email list involved importing 6,000 static pages into WordPress. A number of responses recommended using the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser to facilitate the porting of the pages.