Title: Plugin does not work at all!
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Plugin does not work at all!

 *  [Fred Chapman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fwchapman/)
 * (@fwchapman)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-work-at-all/)
 * I have tried importing an entire site, and I have tried importing the pages, 
   posts, and comments separately. Either way, I get nothing but **Failed to import**
   and **Invalid post type** error messages.
 * This plugin is a total bust, and there is _no support_ for it, either! Importing
   content is _crucial functionality_. Allowing it to be totally broken and doing
   nothing to respond to bug reports from users is going to drive consultants away
   from using WordPress for client projects. It will drive us either towards more
   flexible hosted solutions, like Squarespace and Weebly, or towards other open
   source content management systems, like Joomla and Drupal.
 * WordPress really dropped the ball on this one. Is anybody listening?
 * Fred Chapman

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 *  Thread Starter [Fred Chapman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fwchapman/)
 * (@fwchapman)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-work-at-all/#post-7746970)
 * P.S. I found another way to migrate a WordPress.com site to a self-hosted WordPress.
   org site, and it worked perfectly the first time:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpresscom-importer/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpresscom-importer/)
 *  Thread Starter [Fred Chapman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fwchapman/)
 * (@fwchapman)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-work-at-all/#post-7746973)
 * P.P.S. The WordPress.com Importer plugin I cited above does not import images
   into the media library, but the Media Tools plugin does:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/media-tools/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/media-tools/)
 * After importing pages, posts, and comments with WordPress.com Importer, you can
   use Media Tools to import images. The combination works very well.
 *  [nooshing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nooshing/)
 * (@nooshing)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-work-at-all/#post-7746991)
 * Thank you so much for posting the links for two plugins. Wish I saw this two 
   days ago. Would have saved me quite a few hours of messing with WordPress Importer.
   Thanks again 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Fred Chapman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fwchapman/)
 * (@fwchapman)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-work-at-all/#post-7746992)
 * Nooshing, you are very welcome! I’m glad the other plugins helped. 🙂
 * Fred

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