WordPress Importer
slug: wordpress-importer
WordPress plugin by WordPress.org · detected on 618 sites in our index (11.60% of WordPress sites scanned)
Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.
Where WordPress Importer sits in the WordPress plugin ecosystem
WordPress Importer is the #14 most-detected WordPress plugin in our scan index of 5,328 sites — appearing on roughly 11.60% of WordPress sites we've fingerprinted. Most sites running WordPress Importer are hosted on Pantheon (95% of identified hosts). The most common companion plugin is Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI, present on 78% of WordPress Importer sites. The most frequent theme is unified.
Every data point here comes from actual scans of public WordPress sites — not vendor case studies or curated showcases. We don't accept submissions; everything you see is detected automatically when a site is scanned through the tool.
Plugins commonly used with WordPress Importer
From co-occurrence analysis across sites running WordPress Importer in our index.
- Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI78% of WordPress Importer sites · 392 sites
- Redirection63% of WordPress Importer sites · 315 sites
- Classic Editor61% of WordPress Importer sites · 304 sites
- Yoast Duplicate Post52% of WordPress Importer sites · 258 sites
- Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection45% of WordPress Importer sites · 226 sites
- Contact Form 744% of WordPress Importer sites · 220 sites
- WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most Popular SMTP and Email Log Plugin44% of WordPress Importer sites · 218 sites
- Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security43% of WordPress Importer sites · 217 sites
Themes commonly running WordPress Importer
Top themes on sites using this plugin.
- unified4% of WordPress Importer sites · 18 sites
- GeneratePress2% of WordPress Importer sites · 9 sites
- divi1% of WordPress Importer sites · 7 sites
- avada1% of WordPress Importer sites · 6 sites
- RetroTube1% of WordPress Importer sites · 5 sites
- Beaver Builder Child Theme1% of WordPress Importer sites · 4 sites
Hosting providers running WordPress Importer
Limited to sites where we identified the hosting provider.
Sites using WordPress Importer
Most-recently-scanned sites detected with this plugin.
- ccc.educcc · Pantheon · scanned 2026-05-22
- fiveguys.comfive-guys · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- spectrio.comspectrio · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- macalester.eduMacalester 2020 Child Theme · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- consumercal.orgitul.theme.abc · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- redbutton.dejupiter · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- swizzonic.chDada · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- cruxnow.comtheme unknown · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- netsparkmobile.comBusiness Land · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- utic.unsa.baavada · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- photographylife.comPhotography Life Responsive Theme · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- martech.orgtdm-editorial · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
How we detect WordPress Importer
Five-vector detection — /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-importer/ asset paths, /wp-json/ REST API namespaces, HTML signature patterns, sitemap XML comments, and asset-probe HEAD requests against the top-100 popular plugins on wordpress.org. Each detected plugin carries provenance pills showing which sources corroborated it — cross-vector matches indicate high-confidence detections. More on how detection works.
Data comes from real-time scans of public WordPress sites — not vendor case studies or curated showcases. Every claim on this page traces back to a specific detection in our scan corpus, observable via our methodology. Affiliate links are disclosed per the affiliate disclosure.