Title: RSS-import does nothing…
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# RSS-import does nothing…

 *  [rander](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rander/)
 * (@rander)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-import-does-nothing/)
 * I’m trying to help a friend migrate from smartlog.dk to WP. So, she’s got all
   of her posts and comments exported in to one big RSS-file (smartlog can only 
   export as RSS). Then we go to WP and try to import it. It very quickly says “
   All done” and gives no errors – and it has done absolutely nothing – NOTHING 
   has been imported…
 * Any idea how to fix this?

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 *  [nethgr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nethgr/)
 * (@nethgr)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-import-does-nothing/#post-341271)
 * I got the same problems…
    I even dont know how to make all the post into one 
   single txt file.
 *  [fuzzmartin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fuzzmartin/)
 * (@fuzzmartin)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-import-does-nothing/#post-341277)
 * Are you downloading the xml file to your local computer and then browsing to 
   it? If you try to just enter the url to the file on the web, nothing will happen.
   Download the file to your local computer – browse to it, and then click “import.”
 *  Thread Starter [rander](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rander/)
 * (@rander)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-import-does-nothing/#post-341291)
 * That’s exactly what I did, Martin – but nothing happens…
 *  [jwdenzel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwdenzel/)
 * (@jwdenzel)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-import-does-nothing/#post-341310)
 * Is your RSS file a 2.0 version? Or older?
 * A simple RSS file should look like this when you open it in a text editor.
 *  <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”windows-1252″ ?>
    <rss version=”2.0″ > <channel
   > <title>Your website</title> <link>[http://www.YourSite.com</link&gt](http://www.YourSite.com</link&gt);
   <language>en-us</language> <description>My site is about Foo</description> <item
   > <title>This is the title of my post</title> <description>This is the main body
   of your post</description> <pubDate>Wednesday, September 1st, 2004</pubDate> 
   Your Name <category>Talk Soup</category> </item> </channel> </rss>

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 * [Import](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/import/)
 * [RSS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss/)

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-import-does-nothing/#post-341310)
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