Title: [Plugin: WordPress Importer] Importing from local disk
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress Importer] Importing from local disk

 *  [TCBarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tcbarrett/)
 * (@tcbarrett)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-importer-importing-from-local-disk/)
 * Is there a way I can hook into the import/parser to import an XML file stored
   locally (to the WordPress install), rather than having to manually upload a remote
   file.
 * I would like to use this for:
    1. Creating default sets of data via the admin
   screen. 2. Creating default sets of data on network site creation.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-importer/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-importer/)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-importer-importing-from-local-disk/)
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