HTML Import 2

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1. ★★★★★ pookywiss77

   4.5y ago

   I have about 2,600 pages to get up on a WordPress site and this is saving me so much time. It works perfectly. Especially helpful that I can use the file name as the slug, so I can do an easy quick htaccess rewrite for each folder.

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2. ★★★★★ boatsurfer2011

   4.6y ago

   Not working yet

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3. ★★★★★ deirdrebeth

   6.0y ago

   This worked great. I’ve still got clean-up to do, but all the pages are there. <3

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4. ★★★★★ mlipenk

   6.2y ago

   I had a static site with over 1000 pages. This plugin saved me a ton of time in migrating it to a WordPress site. THANK YOU.

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5. ★★★★★ revixi5

   6.8y ago

   Ok, it does not do all the job for you but how can I complain? It did save me a lot of hours of work! Thanks a milion time for this little gem. Hope you’ll keep it updated because it’s very usefull and well done.

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6. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   8.4y ago

   Tnx, you saved us a lot of time! Works even on the newest WordPress.

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7. ★★★★★ Lectrichead

   8.5y ago

   We have a wiki from Wikispaces consisting of 880+ pages and needed to find a new format to host it in without cutting and pasting all of those pages somewhere. A quick HTML output from that site, some mass search and replaces of URL in the HTML files, and an import using this and we had a functioning site again! I hope Stephanie Leary can consider continuing work on this plugin as it has a very specific purpose that can help some of us under certain conditions. It was a great plugin to find and immensely helpful.

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8. ★★★★★ Profitatem

   8.5y ago

   This is awesome, just what I needed. I just got one issue, surely caused by some wrong setting. Each time I import a HTML page int WP, I get all my existing pages copied too (so that I have multiple pages duplicated) Please help wth this. Thanks in advance

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.6 Removed ancient magic runtime quotes call, wow. Checking for empty string instead of empty() to allow for directories named ‘0’ or similar Bail out earlier if XML can’t be loaded, to avoid fatal errors More efficient lin 2.6
2. — Version 2.5.1 Fixed warnings and notices related to the custom category walker. Fixed bug where the page parent option displayed incorrectly in sites with no published pages. 2.5.1
3. — Version 2.5 Custom fields can now allow the same HTML tags as content Fixed a problem with some image paths Made image and link searches case-insensitive (props Clean Forest Solutions ) Fixed some incorrectly escaped options that wo 2.5
4. — Version 2.4 You can now specify more than one index filename (e.g. ‘index.php, default.htm’) New option to remove the imported title from within the content area Fallbacks: if your chosen tag/area is empty or does not exist, the imp 2.4
5. — Version 2.3 New option to import an entire file’s contents instead of selecting a portion of it. (Props Shawn Zilbert.) New option to generate the title from the filename. (Props Shawn Zilbert.) New option to preserve the original f 2.3
6. — Version 2.2 Now imports media files other than images. Uses rawurldecode() to remove junk like %20 from file names, and thus should now handle situations where your link is something like my%20file.doc and your file is actually call 2.2

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Translated into 64 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Plus 40 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-04-23 6K+ → 5K+ down after 401 days in tier
2. 2025-03-18 7K+ → 6K+ down after 35 days in tier
3. 2025-02-11 6K+ → 7K+ up after 1 days in tier
4. 2025-02-10 7K+ → 6K+ down after 264 days in tier
5. 2024-05-22 8K+ → 7K+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2024-05-21 7K+ → 8K+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2024-05-20 8K+ → 7K+ down after 164 days in tier
8. 2023-12-08 9K+ → 8K+ down after 300 days in tier

Competes with

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• TagPages 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
• S Simple Taxonomy Refreshed 400+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
• Custom Post Type UI 1M+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
• One Click Demo Import 1M+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A
• WP-PageNavi 500K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A

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HTML Import 2: 5K+ active installs, 4.3★ (32 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/import-html-pages