Exactly ... Because the WordPress Importer plugin is so slow to import xml and why it is not updated at times being a relatively important function of it for content generation?
And ... is there a feature and / or plugin that plays the same role as the standard Importer with faster and better performance in the community and / or plugin repository?
Most problems related to importing xml, whether in wordpress or in any other application (php or not), is more related to server performance. People often encounter errors related to timeout to load the file. You may also encounter problems loading a very large database in xml, and it locks itself. One way out of this is split xml into multiple files - it can be per period, for example, by doing an xml for each year of site content. Most of the time it works. I, in particular, prefer to import the data through the database. The advantage of xml is that it can import the media files directly from the old site if the urls still work.
About the plugin, if you're talking about the WP Importer ( link ), it was updated in October of 2014 for the last time.
An option to this first plugin is the Advanced Importer ( link ) - I have never tested it, but it has great recommendations . it may be useful to you. Your last update was this month.
