Answers Import and Export Add-On for WordPress by CreativeMinds

You can edit the Exported CSV file or even create a CSV file for import completely from scratch.

There are instructions within the Plugin Settings describing column headings, how to write the information and in what order it needs to go for the Import side to be able to make sense of it.

To learn more about this feature see this Help article.

You have to options in this case. When there are no matching users found during import you can either skip these users or you can assign to a chosen user on the inbound site based on either the user ID or their login name.

To learn more about this feature see this Help article.

Yes. You can modify Meta information for Questions, Answers and for Comments in the CSV using a Spreadsheet editor.

To learn more about modifying meta see this Help article.

No. Our CM Answers Export & Import add-on will create duplicate questions and answers if you try to use it this way.

It’s great for creating backup restoration points or for doing an initial migration of your Questions and Answers from one site to another. But it’s not designed for keeping two websites synchronized in terms of their questions.

No. The CSV needs to be in a specific format, with certain column headers and in a certain order. You could modify the questions and answers into the right format.

Next you’d want to download the CSV example file and finally you would need to paste your Questions and Answers into the modified example file. Then upload this.

If you’re a wizz with Excel formulas this would be a much faster approach than copy pasting them manually.

To learn more about importing questions and answers via CSV see this Help article.

There is a lot of information included for each question. Among other things some of the most key information exported is:

• The Question
• Answers for the Question
• The site ID of the Author
• The date it was Posted
• The date it was last Modified
• The current status of the Question (published, unpublished)
• The post name or anchor tag
• The Display name for the poster
• The email address of the original poster
• The login name of the user
• Categories that the question has been assigned to
• Tags that have been associated with the Question