Morning @kelvinthegerbil,
- WordPress includes an import tool designed specifically for importing content.
- In your WordPress site, select Tools -> Import on the left nav of the admin screen.
- Under “WordPress”, if you haven’t already installed the importer, click “Install Now”.
- Click the “Run Importer” link.
- Click “Choose File” and navigate to the file exported from your source.
- Click “Upload file and import”.
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. WordPress will then import each of the posts, comments and categories contained in the uploaded file into your blog. In addition, you can import attachments by checking the “Download and import file attachments” option.
Let me know if you have any further questions!
Kind regards,
Sully.
Apologies, the answer is in the export file.
For those who scratch their heads wondering how to import the export… and wonder why it’s not under Details or Installation… these instructions are in a comment tag at the top of the export.
To import this information into a WordPress site follow these steps:
- Log in to that site as an administrator.
- Go to Tools: Import in the WordPress admin panel.
- Install the “WordPress” importer from the list.
- Activate & Run Importer.
- Upload this file using the form provided on that page.
- You will first be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the site. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the site or to create a new user.
- WordPress will then import each of the posts, pages, comments, categories, etc. contained in this file into your site.