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WordPress Importer · Version history

WordPress Importer changelog and version history

Latest version
0.9.7
Oct 20, 2026 (19 days ago)
Releases
24
since 2010
In the last year
2
about one every 54 days
Tested up to
WordPress 6.8.12
PHP 7.2 or later

Releases each year

  • 20101 release
  • 20113 releases
  • 20122 releases
  • 20151 release
  • 20162 releases
  • 20191 release
  • 20201 release
  • 20221 release
  • 20231 release
  • 20242 releases
  • 20257 releases
  • 20262 releases

20262 releases

  1. WordPress Importer 0.9.7Latest

    • Skip the _wp_attachment_edit_root_id meta key on import. It stores an attachment ID from the source site, and attachment IDs change on import, so the imported value could point at an unrelated attachment on the destination site.

  2. WordPress Importer 0.9.6

    • Skip the _wp_font_face_file meta key on import. Font attachments regenerate this meta locally, and the imported value pointed at a file path from the source site.
    • Prefix bundled vendor namespaces (Rowbot\URL, Brick\Math, Psr\Log, and others) with VendorPrefix\ to avoid class redefinition errors when another plugin bundles the same libraries.
    • Add a Live Preview blueprint so the plugin can be tried in WordPress Playground from the plugin directory page.
    • Code refactoring: extract single-post processing into a separate process_post() method, continuing the streaming preparation work.

20257 releases

  1. WordPress Importer 0.9.5

    • Rewrite CSS URLs in block markup (e.g., cover blocks with background images).
    • Code refactoring: Extract import processing logic into separate methods to prepare for future streaming support.
    • Update Playwright and @playwright/test dependencies from 1.55.0 to 1.56.1.
    • Clean up vendor-patched dependencies by removing dotfiles and GitHub workflow files.

  2. WordPress Importer 0.9.4

    • Fix a bug that caused self-closing blocks to be incorrectly serialized during URL rewriting.

  3. WordPress Importer 0.9.3

    • Rewrite attachment URLs to the new URL structure

  4. WordPress Importer 0.9.2

    • Rewrite site URLs in block attributes.

  5. WordPress Importer 0.9.1

    • Add support for rewriting site URLs in post content and excerpts.

  6. WordPress Importer 0.9.0

    • Introduce a new XML parser class WXR_Parser_XML_Processor that replaces the deprecated WXR_Parser_Regex class.

  7. WordPress Importer 0.8.4

    • Fix a bug on deserialization of untrusted input.
    • Update compatibility tested-up-to to WordPress 6.7.2.

20242 releases

  1. WordPress Importer 0.8.3

    • Update compatibility tested-up-to to WordPress 6.7.
    • Update call to post_exists to include post_type in the query
    • PHP 8.4 compatibility fixes.

  2. WordPress Importer 0.8.2

    • Update compatibility tested-up-to to WordPress 6.4.2.
    • Update doc URL references.
    • Adjust workflow triggers.

20231 release

  1. WordPress Importer 0.8.1

    • Update compatibility tested-up-to to WordPress 6.2.
    • Update paths to build status badges.

20221 release

  1. WordPress Importer 0.8

    • Update minimum WordPress requirement to 5.2.
    • Update minimum PHP requirement to 5.6.
    • Update compatibility tested-up-to to WordPress 6.1.
    • PHP 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 compatibility fixes.
    • Fix a bug causing blank lines in content to be ignored when using the Regex Parser.
    • Fix a bug resulting in a PHP fatal error when IMPORT_DEBUG is enabled and a category creation error occurs.
    • Improved Unit testing & automated testing.

20201 release

  1. WordPress Importer 0.7

    • Update minimum WordPress requirement to 3.7 and ensure compatibility with PHP 7.4.
    • Fix bug that caused not importing term meta.
    • Fix bug that caused slashes to be stripped from imported meta data.
    • Fix bug that prevented import of serialized meta data.
    • Fix file size check after download of remote files with HTTP compression enabled.
    • Improve accessibility of form fields by adding missing labels.
    • Improve imports for remote file URLs without name and/or extension.
    • Add support for wp:base_blog_url field to allow importing multiple files with WP-CLI.
    • Add support for term meta parsing when using the regular expressions or XML parser.
    • Developers: All PHP classes have been moved into their own files.
    • Developers: Allow to change IMPORT_DEBUG via wp-config.php and change default value to the value of WP_DEBUG.

20191 release

  1. WordPress Importer 0.6.4

    • Improve PHP7 compatibility.
    • Fix bug that caused slashes to be stripped from imported comments.
    • Fix for various deprecation notices including wp_get_http() and screen_icon().
    • Fix for importing export files with multiline term meta data.

20162 releases

  1. WordPress Importer 0.6.3

    • Add support for import term metadata.
    • Fix bug that caused slashes to be stripped from imported content.
    • Fix bug that caused characters to be stripped inside of CDATA in some cases.
    • Fix PHP notices.

  2. WordPress Importer 0.6.2

    • Add wp_import_existing_post filter, see Trac ticket #33721.

20151 release

  1. WordPress Importer 0.6.1

20122 releases

  1. WordPress Importer 0.6

    • Support for WXR 1.2 and multiple CDATA sections
    • Post aren’t duplicates if their post_type’s are different

  2. WordPress Importer 0.5.2

    • Double check that the uploaded export file exists before processing it. This prevents incorrect error messages when an export file is uploaded to a server with bad permissions and WordPress 3.3 or 3.3.1 is being used.

20113 releases

  1. WordPress Importer 0.5

    • Import comment meta (requires export from WordPress 3.2)
    • Minor bugfixes and enhancements

  2. WordPress Importer 0.4

    • Map comment user_id where possible
    • Import attachments from wp:attachment_url
    • Upload attachments to correct directory
    • Remap resized image URLs correctly

  3. WordPress Importer 0.3

    • Use an XML Parser if possible
    • Proper import support for nav menus
    • … and much more, see Trac ticket #15197

20101 release

  1. WordPress Importer 0.2

Questions about WordPress Importer’s releases

What is the latest version of WordPress Importer?

0.9.7, released on Oct 20, 2026 (2 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 6.8.12 and needs PHP 7.2 or later.

How often is WordPress Importer updated?

2 releases in the last year, about one every 54 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from October 2010.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in WordPress Importer’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.