Title: Importing posts questions
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Importing posts questions

 *  [kpnet-prophetnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kpnet-prophetnet/)
 * (@kpnet-prophetnet)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-posts-questions/)
 * I have a blog at
    net-prophet.net/blog
 * I recently imported 135 posts
    from my disused blogger site.
 * It took me most of a week to
    inport those posts, and then link to them on Archives,
   one at a time, with many back and forths to get all the fields transferred. [
   I have a really slow modem line!]
 * Is there some way to do a GLOBAL
    action on the “uncategorized” category. Everything
   I import goes right there, and if I could do a global action on everything “uncategorized”
   it would be simple.
 * This relates to my desire to host
    on my WP blog my 5,000 plus posts to several
   news groups over the last ten years. I can’t import them one post at a time; 
   that would take years!
 * I need to import one group of posts
    at a time, but automatically, and then recategorize
   them GLOBALLY from “uncategorized” to whatever they are!
 * I have them in archives on my hard drive.
    They are in Forte Free Agent, Forte
   Agent, Eudora, and several other file formats.
 * These programs were originally running
    under windows, and now I have a linux
   system, so I can’t run the programs. Most of the import options seem to want 
   the programs set up, not just the files.
 * How do I point WP to a database file and
    get it automatically imported as individual
   posts to my blog? This would solve a huge problem I have had for years now. I
   don’t even have access to my own posting history! And I therefore can’t share
   it with others.
 * Thanks for any info!
 *  O
    — ) \

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-posts-questions/#post-1017502)
 * One idea–when you delete a category, WordPress allows all the posts in that category
   to be assigned to another category.
 * 2nd idea– [http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/batch-categories](http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/batch-categories)
 * Always, always, ALWAYS, backup your database before doing anything like this 
   😉

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