Title: WP Advanced Importer
Author: Smackcoders Inc.,
Published: <strong>December 31, 2013</strong>
Last modified: June 30, 2021

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# wp-advanced-importer

 By [Smackcoders Inc.,](https://profiles.wordpress.org/smackcoders/)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-advanced-importer/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-advanced-importer/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-advanced-importer/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-advanced-importer/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of June 8, 2021 and is not available for download.
Reason: Security Issue.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Terrible… Just terrible](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/terrible-just-terrible/)󠁿

 [SalahZombie](https://profiles.wordpress.org/salahzombie/) January 13, 2017

Couldnt give -5

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### 󠀁[Oh Dear 🙁](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/oh-dear/)󠁿

 [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nostradamuszen/) September 3, 2016

2.4 out of 5 – and every review negative except one?! I’m not even going to try 
it until there’s a new release fixing the PHP / CGI problem. Thanks, other reviewers,
for saving me the grief!

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### 󠀁[Errors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dreadful-very-bad-amateur-coding/)󠁿

 [ralphprice](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ralphprice/) September 3, 2016 2 replies

Errors

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### 󠀁[Fatal error when using PHP as CGI](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-using-php-as-cgi/)󠁿

 [vasko_t](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vasko_t/) September 3, 2016

The plugin doesn’t take into consideration that PHP can sometimes installed as CGI.
It tries to execute the function apache_get_modules() which is not available in 
this case, so it crashes with a fatal error. Even if I removed that function and
added an empty array on its place, when I went ahead and tried to upload an xml 
file to import, it gives a 500 internal server error. So this plugin needs some 
serious work. Please don’t submit plugins that are not tested thoroughly.

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### 󠀁[An Awesome Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/an-awesome-plugin-9/)󠁿

 [Earid A.](https://profiles.wordpress.org/earid/) September 3, 2016

Use full Plugin

 [ Read all 18 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-advanced-importer/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“WP Advanced Importer” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Smackcoders Inc., ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/smackcoders/)

[Translate “WP Advanced Importer” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-advanced-importer)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-advanced-importer/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-advanced-importer/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-advanced-importer/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-advanced-importer/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **2.4.1**
 *  Last updated **5 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.7.17**
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-advanced-importer/advanced/)