WordPress – Tools menu – Import

17 December, 2009 (05:06) | WordPress Blogging | By: max

The Import entry in the WordPress Tools menu lets you import into a WordPress blog of yours posts, comments and other items you might already have in another blog, which can be of a WordPress or different type.

That way, you can also build up a new blog quickly from existing posts located somewhere else.

Currently,the  WordPress import facility can import posts from the following blogging platforms:

  • Blogger – Import posts, comments, and users from a Blogger blog: Blogger is the free blogging platform currently offered by Google
  • Blogroll – Import links in OPML format
  • Blogware – Import posts from Blogware
  • Categories and Tags Converter – Convert existing categories to tags or tags to categories, selectively
  • DotClear – Import categories, users, posts, comments, and links from a DotClear blog
  • GreyMatter – Import users, posts, and comments from a Greymatter blog
  • LiveJournal – Import posts from LiveJournal using their API
  • Movable Type and TypePad – Import posts and comments from a Movable Type or Typepad blog
  • RSS – Import posts from an RSS feed
  • Simple Tagging – Import Simple Tagging tags into WordPress tags
  • Textpattern – Import categories, users, posts, comments, and links from a Textpattern blog
  • Ultimate Tag Warrior – Import Ultimate Tag Warrior tags into WordPress tags
  • WordPress – Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags from a WordPress export file
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