> Content index: https://quillly.com/docs/llms.txt > Canonical page: https://quillly.com/docs/import --- title: Import Posts From WordPress, Ghost, Blogger or Medium description: Import existing posts into Quillly from WordPress, Ghost, Blogger, Medium or a CSV file: how to export each one, and what carries over as a draft. keywords: import, WordPress, CSV published: 2026-09-24 updated: 2026-09-24 url: https://quillly.com/docs/import word_count: 1097 --- # Import existing posts > Import existing posts into Quillly from WordPress, Ghost, Blogger, Medium or a CSV file: how to export each one, and what carries over as a draft. Canonical: https://quillly.com/docs/import Published: 2026-09-24 Import the posts you already have into your Quillly **Blog**, from a WordPress, Ghost, Blogger or Medium export or from a CSV file. Every imported post arrives as a draft, so you can check it before it goes live. **Before you start**, you need: - **A website in Quillly.** Import fills its **Blog** section. See [Content types and URLs](https://quillly.com/docs/content-types). - **An export file** from the platform you're leaving. The next section says how to get one. ## Export from your old platform The import dialog shows these steps too, under **How to export from** your platform. | Platform | How to export | File | | --- | --- | --- | | **WordPress** | In your WordPress dashboard, go to **Tools → Export**, choose **Posts** (or **All content**), and click **Download Export File**. | One `.xml` file, up to 50 MB | | **Ghost** | In Ghost Admin, go to **Settings → Labs** and click **Export** under **Export your content**. | One `.json` file, up to 50 MB | | **Blogger** | In Blogger, go to **Settings**, then **Back up content** under **Manage blog**, and click **Download**. | One `.xml` file, up to 50 MB | | **Medium** | Go to **Settings → Security and apps → Download your information**. Medium emails you a `.zip` file. Unzip it and open the `posts` folder. | Several `.html` files, up to 10 MB each | | **CSV** | Make a spreadsheet with one row per post, as the CSV section below describes. | One `.csv` file, up to 10 MB | For more detail, see [WordPress's Export screen](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/tools-export-screen/), [Ghost's guide to exporting content](https://ghost.org/help/exports/) and [Blogger's backup help](https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/41387). ![The Import Blogs dialog in Quillly, listing the five sources you can import from: WordPress, Ghost, Blogger, Medium and CSV](https://quillly.com/serve/v1/019c64a2-a62f-7793-aa68-2c78316d3309/images/7b29d290ecd09b0685ed55c3e3e8610f95f809ac.webp) ## Import your posts ### 1. Open Import in your blog Under **Content**, open **Blog**. Click **Import** in the toolbar, next to the button for a new post. [Open your blog](https://quillly.com/dashboard/blog) ### 2. Pick your platform In **Import Blogs**, click **WordPress**, **Ghost**, **Blogger**, **Medium** or **CSV**. ### 3. Upload the export file Click the upload area and choose the file. For Medium, select every `.html` file you want at once. Your browser reads the file, and nothing is saved yet. ### 4. Choose the posts and import them The list shows each post Quillly found, with its status on the old platform, its tags and its length. Clear the box next to any post you don't want, then click **Import**, which shows how many posts you picked, such as **Import 2 Blogs**. When it's done, the dialog reads **2 blogs imported successfully** and lists any post that failed. ![The review step of Import Blogs, with two of three posts ticked, the note that every post is saved as a draft, and the Import 2 Blogs button](https://quillly.com/serve/v1/019c64a2-a62f-7793-aa68-2c78316d3309/images/8352ba01c6e738a50248518088c58cb6c1bfce39.webp) > [!WARNING] > One import takes at most 200 posts. If you tick more, the whole import fails with **Invalid import data**. For a bigger blog, clear all but 200 and import them, then open **Import** again with the same file and tick the next batch. ## What carries over Every source brings the title and the body. Bodies in HTML are converted to Markdown, and headings, lists, links, images, quotes, tables and code blocks survive the conversion. The rest depends on the source: | Source | Slug | Excerpt | Featured image | Tags | SEO title and meta description | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **WordPress** | Yes | Yes | No | Tags and categories | No | | **Ghost** | Yes | Custom excerpt | Yes | Tags | Yes | | **Blogger** | From the post's URL | No | No | Labels | No | | **Medium** | From the file name | Subtitle | No | No | No | | **CSV** | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | A few things change on the way in: - **Every post is a draft.** The status from your old platform shows in the list, but Quillly doesn't apply it. - **Publish dates aren't kept.** A post gets its date when you publish it in Quillly. - **Tags become target keywords**, the keywords Quillly scores the post against. From WordPress, categories count as tags too. - **Images stay where they were.** The post links to each image at its old address, so keep those images online, or replace them before you shut the old site down. - **Embeds become links.** A YouTube video or other embedded frame becomes a link named **Embedded content**. - **Only posts come across.** WordPress pages and attachments, Ghost pages, and Blogger comments are skipped, and the list says how many. - **Without its own SEO title**, a post uses its title, and **without a meta description**, it uses the excerpt. Ghost posts that have no HTML or plain text in the export, only Ghost's editor format, are skipped with a warning. ## CSV columns A CSV file needs a header row with at least a **title** and a **content** column. Content can be Markdown or plain text. Quillly matches columns by name, and each column accepts a few names: | Column | Also accepted as | | --- | --- | | `title` | `post_title`, `name`, `heading`, `blog_title` | | `content` | `body`, `post_content`, `text`, `html`, `markdown`, `blog_content` | | `slug` | `url_slug`, `post_name`, `permalink`, `url` | | `excerpt` | `summary`, `description`, `post_excerpt`, `short_description` | | `tags` | `categories`, `labels`, `keywords`, `topics`. Separate tags with commas or semicolons. | | `featured_image` | `image`, `thumbnail`, `cover_image`, `featured_image_url`. It must be a full URL. | | `meta_title` | `seo_title`, `og_title` | | `meta_description` | `seo_description`, `og_description` | | `status` | `post_status`, `state`. It shows in the list only. | ```text title,slug,content,tags,meta_description "Choosing trail running shoes",choosing-trail-shoes,"## Fit comes first Try shoes on in the afternoon.","Gear, Trail running","How to pick trail shoes that fit." ``` Quote any cell that holds a comma or a line break, as above. ## After the import The posts wait in **Blog** as drafts. Open each one, check the SEO score and fix what it flags, then publish. If the old posts lived on another domain or path, set up redirects from the old URLs on the old host, so links and search rankings follow the posts. [Redirects and moving to a new domain](https://quillly.com/docs/redirects) explains how. ## Common questions ### Can I import docs or changelog entries? No. **Import** fills the **Blog** section only. To bring docs in, ask your AI assistant to create them with `bulk_create_content` and `content_type` set to `docs`, up to 10 pages per call. The [MCP tool reference](https://quillly.com/docs/mcp-tools) lists the tool. ### What happens if I import the same file twice? Nothing is overwritten. A post whose slug already exists on the website fails to import and is listed as an error. A post with no slug in the file gets a new one, so it can come in twice. ### Why did my import fail with Invalid import data? Either more than 200 posts were ticked, or one post broke a limit, such as a title over 500 characters, an excerpt over 1,000 or a featured image that isn't a full URL. Clear that post, or fix it in the file, and import again. ## Related - [Content types and URLs](https://quillly.com/docs/content-types): where your Blog lives and the other content types. - [Publish into WordPress, Ghost, Webflow or Shopify](https://quillly.com/docs/publish-to-cms): keep your old platform and publish into it instead. - [MCP tool reference](https://quillly.com/docs/mcp-tools): `bulk_create_content` and the other tools your AI assistant can use. - [Redirects and moving to a new domain](https://quillly.com/docs/redirects): keep old links working after the move.