WordPress/wordpress-importer

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The WordPress Importer

Stars: 89
Forks: 96
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 42
Avg merge: 1h 13m
Merged PRs (30d): 2

Dominant language: PHP
License: GPL-2.0
Last GitHub push: Aug 27, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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42 open issues indexed

Testing with latest WordPress versions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#266 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
PHP 8.5 compatible Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 68/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#260 · 2 comments · Opened May 14, 2026
Webp is not working Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#257 · Opened Mar 24, 2026
DoS in WordPress Importer 0.9.5 - 2 Million Sites Affected - Disk Exhaustion Denial of Service (DoS) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#256 · Opened Mar 18, 2026
Request: Easier method to assign all posts to a single user Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#250 · Opened Dec 9, 2025
Pause and resume import Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#229 · Opened Oct 13, 2025
URL replace does not work on Post Meta Open

[Type] Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#225 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 1, 2025
Please remove textdomain data-liberation in class-xmlprocessor Open

[Type] Bug

WordPress/wordpress-importer#216 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 21, 2025
Remove "wordpress" tag Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 68/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#212 · Opened Sep 17, 2025
Remapping once media import does not works as expected for media hosted externally without file extension Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#186 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2025
Post are not added because files in wp-content folder already exist Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#183 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 7, 2025
Importing serialized meta data containing CRLF line endings fails when the importer uses WXR_Parser_SimpleXML Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#178 · Opened Jan 20, 2025
post GUID field is not updated when importing. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#161 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 20, 2024
Add support for author description Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#159 · Opened Feb 19, 2024
https://php.watch/versions/8.2/${var}-string-interpolation-deprecated Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#154 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 10, 2023
Hierarchy Structure is lost in imported terms when names are repeated Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#153 · Opened Sep 1, 2023
bug in WXR_Parser_Regex when parsing authors Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#144 · Opened Mar 22, 2023
Remove lint errors Open

[Type] Enhancement

WordPress/wordpress-importer#142 · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 12, 2022
WP_CLI - Question Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#141 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 30, 2022
Undefined index: 'extension' Open

[Type] Bug

WordPress/wordpress-importer#139 · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 16, 2022
Newly imported images have the incorrect id in the class attribute Open

[Type] Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#129 · Opened Jul 6, 2022
Warning: Undefined array key 1 in /var/mywebsite/public/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-importer/parsers/class-wxr-parser-regex.php on line 64 Open

[Type] Bug help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#118 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 27, 2021
Duplicate posts created when a post exists with the same post_title but different post_type Open

[Type] Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#115 · Opened Nov 20, 2021
Media import failure due to URL mismatch Open

needs testing

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#107 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 6, 2021
Filter to skip the fetch_remote_file call Open

[Type] Enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#103 · Opened Aug 11, 2021
Multisite: Assign imported content to an existing user or create new user option is broken Open

[Status] Reporter Feedback Needed needs testing

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#102 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2021
remapped image urls in block attributes will not correctly replaced Open

[Type] Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#101 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2021
Request code change to import custom menu fields added by plugins Open

[Type] Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#84 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 20, 2020
Update plugin to call `wp_slash` on wp5.5+ and `wp_slash_strings_only` on older versions Open

[Type] Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#83 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 18, 2020
Post content didn't import properly due to parsing issue in get_tag Open

[Type] Bug needs testing

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#82 · Opened Oct 16, 2020
Import meta for nav_menu_item posts Open

[Type] Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#77 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 26, 2020
Cannot create a user with an empty login name Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#66 · 9 comments · Opened Feb 19, 2020
Improvement - import in batches using AJAX or background job? Open

[Type] Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#64 · Opened Nov 27, 2019
Links and images in blocks aren't updated on import Open

[Type] Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#63 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 20, 2019
Cannot import posts with identical post title Open

[Type] Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#61 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 27, 2019
Shared block references aren't updated on import Open

[Type] Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#44 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 6, 2018
future of WordPress Importer Open

[Type] Question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#42 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2018
gzopen(): cannot represent a stream of type user-space as a File Descriptor Open

[Type] Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#41 · Opened Aug 20, 2018
Re-importing trashed post returns success but nothing happens Open

[Type] Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#36 · Opened May 3, 2018
Photo id references for galleries not rewritten Open

[Type] Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#35 · Opened Apr 20, 2018
Limit users dropdown to appropriate roles? Open

[Type] Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#34 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 15, 2018
General refactoring suggestions Open

[Type] Task

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

WordPress/wordpress-importer#33 · Opened Mar 3, 2018

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