Title: Importing Categories from SQL
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Importing Categories from SQL

 *  [rupansansei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rupansansei/)
 * (@rupansansei)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-categories-from-sql/)
 * I’m currently moving my blogsome blog over to WordPress. I’ve got the posts imported
   fine, and I don’t think I’ll have problems with most of the other tables, but
   the Blogsome SQL dump included a “categories” table, which apparently doesn’t
   exist in WordPress now. Is there any way to convert them to tags?
 * Also, there are a couple of tables I’m not sure whether to import or not: “post2cat”
   and “linkcategories”.
 * “Options” is one that I think is best NOT to import? Or should I go ahead and
   just do it?

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 *  Thread Starter [rupansansei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rupansansei/)
 * (@rupansansei)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-categories-from-sql/#post-1048450)
 * One other question. I’ve been editing the tables in my SQL and occasionally there
   are rows that are “No” for the Null option but have a Default of “NULL”. For 
   some reason it won’t let me set the Default to “NULL”.
 * Also, could anyone tell me what the “Key” column and “Extra” columns are? In 
   the “Extra” column, I’ve seen a couple with FK->wp_posts.ID…I’m not sure if I’ve
   got that part set properly. I’m looking at this site: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description](http://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description)
 *  Thread Starter [rupansansei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rupansansei/)
 * (@rupansansei)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-categories-from-sql/#post-1048455)
 * More updates: got everything imported…basically. The comments are registering,
   but for whatever reason, the comment count doesn’t show up on the main page.

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 * [categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/categories/)
 * [Import](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/import/)
 * [sql](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sql/)
 * [tags](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tags/)

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-categories-from-sql/#post-1048455)
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