Title: [Plugin WordPress Importer]
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin WordPress Importer]

 *  [immanence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/immanence/)
 * (@immanence)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-importer/)
 * I have an existing site with 600 users. I need to update a localhost mirror I’m
   working on ahead of writing over the production site. I’m only missing about 
   7 days of posts, but this runs at around 90 posts with comments. Using export
   Filters, I exported only a month’s posts and pages. When it comes to importing,
   however, I have three options: 1. create new users (which I don’t want to do,
   as the users already exist); map all the new posts to me (which I don’t want 
   to do, as I didn’t write them), or manually map each author (600+ entries). Surely
   there is a better way than inputing 600+ names?
 * I read up and saw that there are filters in the file, and that “add new user”
   can be turned off. I did that, but it didn’t make a difference when it came to
   the import; I still had blank fields and 600 names in a pull down tab.
 * I saw this, but it is from a long time ago:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-matching-users-in-wordpress-posts-import](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-matching-users-in-wordpress-posts-import)
 * Has anyone modded the present version of Importer to allow for near automatic
   mapping to EXISTING users?
 * Please help, thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [immanence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/immanence/)
 * (@immanence)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-importer/#post-2221101)
 * Anyone, please?
 *  Thread Starter [immanence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/immanence/)
 * (@immanence)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-importer/#post-2221170)
 * Am I missing something, or this a really important functionality that just isn’t
   working?
 * I have 600 users. When I import, WordPress Importer is not mapping new posts 
   to existing authors. It should do, surely.

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