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I need to import a whole bunch of non-WordPress posts in to Wordpress. I would hope it would be pretty straight forward as there are no pictures or anything; it's basically just a bunch of text. I'm testing out the WordPress Importer plugin but I'm not having much luck, even just using dummy data.

To remove all the variables, here's what I did... I exported all of my WordPress posts to the xml wxr file, removed all but one post with only text, replaced the post data with dummy text, resaved it and imported it.

After I click 'Upload Files and Import', the body of the import WordPress turns white and nothing happens. I find that the file has been imported as a txt file with the body of the xml document and is located under Media.

Can anyone offer any suggestions as to why this is happening.

Update - Debug info: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-importer/parsers.php on line 61

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  • Please add debugging information
    – s_ha_dum
    May 20, 2013 at 16:41
  • Did you follow the link? Do you have debugging enabled?
    – s_ha_dum
    May 20, 2013 at 16:49
  • Debugging info: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-importer/parsers.php on line 61
    – ItsGeorge
    May 20, 2013 at 16:49
  • s_ha_dum, yeah sorry. I thought I had it on already. I've added it now.
    – ItsGeorge
    May 20, 2013 at 17:16

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DomDocument is a PHP extension. It is either not installed or is disabled. You will need to install that module and/or enable it.

You will need server level access to correct it. That is, you will need to be able to configure PHP. How you do that depends on what kind of server you have, so I am not sure what else to say at this point. Perhaps if you were to edit your question to include server details...

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  • s_ha_dum, Thanks, that's probably all I needed. Hopefully it won't be an issue. I'll let you know what happens.
    – ItsGeorge
    May 20, 2013 at 17:51
  • That was it. Enabled Dom and everything is working properly.
    – ItsGeorge
    May 21, 2013 at 19:03

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