by Soflyy 4.2 (28 reviews)

CSV Importer

Name: CSV Importer
Rating: 4.2 (28 reviews)
Author: Soflyy

Import posts from CSV files into WordPress.

CSV Importer ranks #3,786 among WordPress.org plugins with 3,000+ active installations, is #434 of 4,938 in the Utilities & Tools category, a 4.2/5 rating from 28 reviews, and was last updated Jul 31, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7.0.4 (Current: 7.1)

v0.4.2 Current Version v0.4.2

Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 31 Jul, 2026

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Source: WPVulnerability

1 known vulnerability on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 2 days ago

Dec 5, 2023

CSV Importer [csv-importer] < 0.3.9

CVE-2023-49775 · Fixed in v0.3.9

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Plugin Details

Version: 0.4.2
Last Updated: Jul 31, 2026
Requires WP: 3.1+
Tested Up To: 7.0.4
PHP Version: 7.0 or higher
Author: Soflyy

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Reviews: 28
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 100%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who need to bulk-add posts from a spreadsheet or exported document. It solves the problem of manually creating posts by importing them directly from CSV files, mapping columns to post fields, categories, tags, custom fields, and comments.

Imports post title, body, excerpt
Imports tags, date, categories
Supports custom fields
Supports custom taxonomies
Supports comments import
Handles Word-style quotes/characters
Any column order supported
Multi-language support

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about CSV Importer

It doesn't really matter what kind of separator you use if your file is properly escaped. To see what I mean by proper escaping, take a look at examples/sample.csv file which has cells with quotation marks and commas. If the software you use for exporting to CSV is unable to escape quotation marks and commas, you might want to give OpenOffice Calc a try.

Make sure to save your CSV file with utf-8 encoding. Prior to version 6.0.4, MySQL did not support some rare Han characters. As a workaround, you can insert characters such as 𠊎 (U+2028E) by converting them to HTML entities - 𠊎 I cannot import anything - the plugin displays "Imported 0 posts in 0.01 seconds." Update to version 0.3.1 or greater. Previous versions required write access to the /tmp directory and the plugin failed if access was denied by PHP's safe mode or other settings.

WordPress can be many things, but one thing it's not is blazing fast. The reason why not all rows are imported and there's no confirmation message is that the plugin times out during execution - PHP decides that it has been running too long and terminates it. There are a number of solutions you can try. First, make sure that you're not using any plugins that may slow down post insertion. For example, a Twitter plugin might attempt to tweet every post you import - not a very good idea if you have 200 posts. Second, you can break up a file into smaller chunks that take less time to import and therefore will not cause the plugin to time out. Third, you can try adjusting PHP's max_execution_time option that sets how long scripts are allowed to run. Description of how to do it is beyond the scope of this FAQ - you should search the web and/or use your web host's help to find out how. However, putting the following line in .htaccess file inside public_html directory works for some people: Sets max execution time to 2 minutes. Adjust as necessary. php_value max_execution_time 120 The problem can be approached from another angle, namely instead of giving scripts more time to run making them run faster. There's not much I can do to speed up the plugin (you can contact me at dvkobozev at gmail.com if you like to prove me wrong), so you can try to speed up WordPress. It is a pretty broad topic, ranging from database optimizations to PHP accelerators such as APC, eAccelerator or XCache, so I'm afraid you're on your own here.

Short answer: update to version 0.2.0 or later. Longer answer: the number of fields (values) in rows in your file does not match the number of columns. Version 0.2.0 pads such rows with empty values (if there are more columns than cells in a row) or discards extra fields (if there are less columns than cells in a row). I'm getting the following error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in .../public_html/wp-content/plugins/csv-importer/File_CSV_DataSource/DataSource.php on line 61. What gives? This plugin requires PHP5, while you probably have PHP4 or older. Update your PHP installation or ask your hosting provider to do it for you.