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Our site 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.

Before Importing

If your exported file is very large, the import script may run into your host’s configured memory limit for PHP.

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.

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.

Excel/CSV Spreadsheet

• Importing posts form CSV file into WordPress instructions.
• CSV Importer plugin (by Denis Kobozev)

LiveJournal

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).

Also see the Google Blog Converters section below.

If you can’t use the current API-based importer for some reason, you need to:

1. Grab an older importer file (download it from the link at the bottom of this page).
2. Save the file as livejournal.php and replace the one in /wp-admin/import/.
3. Go to Manage → Import → LiveJournal.
4. Export LiveJournal contents in XML format. Use their export tool, following the LiveJournal instructions here.

• LiveJournal XML Export Script – tool to export all LJ entries to one XML file for a range of years.

Tumblr

Tumbler has no export feature. You can import its RSS feed, or try one of the migration tools below.

• Export your Tumblr blog to WordPress
• Tumblr2WordPress: Export Your Tumblr to WordPress

Twitter

Twitter has no export feature. You can import its RSS feed, or try Twitter Importer for WordPress or TweetDumpr.

• Get Your Twitter Timeline into WordPress

WordPress

To import from a WordPress export file into a WordPress blog follow these steps.

1. Log into that blog as an administrator.
2. Go to Manage: Import (or Tools:Import in 2.7+)in the blog’s admin panels.
3. Choose “WordPress” from the list.
4. Upload this file using the form provided on that page.
5. 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
6. WordPress will then import each of the posts, comments, and categories contained in this file into your blog

Google Blog Converters

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.