Title: Importing Nested Categories
Last modified: January 5, 2022

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# Importing Nested Categories

 *  Resolved [aaron4osu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaron4osu/)
 * (@aaron4osu)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-nested-categories/)
 * I have a spreadsheet of businesses. Each business row has a top level “business_category”
   column with a single top level category (Ex: Food & Bar). Then, I have a “SubCategories”
   column that has multiple sub categories that when imported should be nested under
   the parent or top level category (“Ex Chicken restaurant, Cajun restaurant, Fast
   food restaurant, Restaurant, Seafood restaurant”). I can’t figure put how to 
   import the sub categories so that they are added as child categories under the
   top level business_category.
 * I tried just manually creating a business in WP as I need it and then exporting
   to use that file as a template. But it’s combining them into one column (which
   makes sense) Ex Food & Bar>Chicken restaurant, Food & Bar>Seafood restaurant.
 * Since I have over 4k records this would not be feasible.
 * I found another plugin that will do this, but I’ve already purchase this plugin
   and don’t want to spend $300 if I don’t have to.
 * Here is a link to the support doc for the other plugin that shows what I’m trying
   to do.
    [https://www.wpallimport.com/documentation/taxonomies/nested/](https://www.wpallimport.com/documentation/taxonomies/nested/)
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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 *  [smacksupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smacksupport/)
 * (@smacksupport)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-nested-categories/#post-15223475)
 * Hi,
 * This is a free plugin support forum. We do not acknowledge pro plugin queries
   here.
 * Kindly contact our pro plugin support team using the email ID support[at]smackcoders[
   at]com. Our technical team will help you ASAP.
 * Thanks.

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