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
