Title: [Plugin: CSV Importer] Usage report
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: CSV Importer] Usage report

 *  Resolved [knarrff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knarrff/)
 * (@knarrff)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-usage-report/)
 * I think it is fair to write a short usage report after I took advantage of this
   nice importer, so here it is.
 * I wanted to move a blog from a web-based blog service (myblog.de) to wordpress.
   myblog doesn’t support any exporting, so I had to grab every single page and 
   parse the html to get the info. That’s not nice, but it also wasn’t particularly
   difficult.
 * This now left me with a lot of ‘raw’ data which I wanted to import into wordpress,
   so I was looking for an importer which uses a simple enough data format which
   I could create with my raw data. CSV is certainly simple, so I gave it a try.
 * I first played a bit with some test csv files before generating a lot of csv 
   files for the real data (I couldn’t import all in one go because of server limitations).
   Almost everything went smoothly and I could figure the rest out. Very nice. This
   way I got all posts imported into wordpress.
 * Now came a part which was a bit more delicate. The csv importer didn’t support
   comments. But I did have quite a few of them and wanted to transfer them as well.
   I dug into the wordpress documentation and the source of the importer and to 
   my surprise adding some support for importing comments was not particularly difficult.
   Granted – it could be made nicer and more complete, but it did the job I needed
   it to do beautifully. I have sent the patch to the author of the importer, maybe
   it makes it into a release in some form.
 * Let me as conclusion just mention some numbers: over 800 posts with over 200 
   comments successfully imported. Thanks a lot!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/csv-importer/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/csv-importer/)

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 * Last reply from: [knarrff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knarrff/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-usage-report/)
 * Status: resolved