Imports content from a given WXR file.

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

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

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

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', 'mapping.csv', or 'skip'. The first will create any non-existent users from the WXR file. The second will 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". The last option will skip any author mapping.

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

[--rewrite_urls]
	Change all imported URLs that currently link to the previous site so that they now link to this site
	Requires WordPress Importer version 0.9.1 or newer.

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.

This package is included with WP-CLI itself, no additional installation necessary.

To install the latest version of this package over what’s included in WP-CLI, run:

wp package install git@github.com:wp-cli/import-command.git

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