Imports content from a given WXR file.

Provides a command line interface to the WordPress Importer plugin, for performing data migrations.

Use define( 'IMPORT_DEBUG', true ); for more verbosity during importing.

Synopsis

wp import <file>... --authors=<authors> [--skip=<data-type>]

Options

<file>…
: Path to one or more valid WXR files for importing. Directories are also accepted.

–authors=<authors>
: How the author mapping should be handled. Options are:

• create — create any non-existent users from the WXR file
• mapping.csv — read author mapping associations from a CSV, or create a CSV for editing if the file path doesn’t exist. The CSV requires two columns, and a header row like "old_user_login,new_user_login".
• skip — skip any author mapping

[–skip=<data-type>]
: Skip importing specific data. Supported options are: ‘attachment’ and ‘image_resize’ (skip time-consuming thumbnail generation).

Examples

# Import content from a WXR file
$ wp import example.wordpress.2016-06-21.xml --authors=create
Starting the import process...
Processing post #1 ("Hello world!") (post_type: post)
-- 1 of 1
-- Tue, 21 Jun 2016 05:31:12 +0000
-- Imported post as post_id #1
Success: Finished importing from 'example.wordpress.2016-06-21.xml' file.