Substack Importer — WordPress Import Plugin
by WordPress.org · WordPress.org page · Website
Substack Importer has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 15,010 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on April 22, 2026, tested up to WordPress 6.9.7.
Substack Importer at a glance
Is Substack Importer well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Posts and images
- Comments (only for publicly accessible posts)
- Author information
Substack Importer reviews and ratings
4 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
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Worked fine for me
This plugin worked for me, thank you for simplifying my life ♥️
Kenneth -
Missing some important options
It worked. BUT... it should have an option to (a) make imported posts DRAFTS (even if they were not Drafts in Substack); .(b) use the first image as the Featured Image for imported posts; and (c) option to use import date as publish date so that they're easier to find (or, alternatively, to set a Category or Tag for all imported posts). Yes, it times out. Not a fatal flaw, but maybe the ability to set a time-out value (or post import speed) would be useful? I used it on the smaller of my two newsletters. I don't know that I'll use it on the larger one unless the suggestions of (a), (b), and (c) above are implemented soon.
HollyJahangiri -
Imports no content or images / No support
This plugin does not work with WordPress 6.3:1. The page content is not imported, only a portion of the page header is. 2. The importer reports an error on the first image and makes no effort with other images. The developer has not responded to other support requests in two years.
mikeairhart -
Fatally Flawed -- Dependent on Copyright Infringement
This is a decent plugin in that it essentially does what it claims to. Although the documentation was sketchy (almost nonexistent), it was easy enough to do the import. I downloaded a .zip file of my substack posts, then uploaded the same .zip file to my WP site from Tools > Import > Substack. The import was pretty quick -- maybe 5 minutes at the most. I only started my substack 6 months ago so there wasn't a lot of data. Then bam! I had a whole bunch of new, published WP blog posts, with the original substack date. (For the most part, that is -- there were some date/time issues when the original post was near midnight. I'm assuming that's due to different server times.) They came in with my site's styling, which was impressive. Footnotes were more or less there, but not exactly as footnotes; had I wanted to keep them, I would have had to do some cleanup. My substack and blog are heavily dependent on images (I'm a photographer) and, although I could see the correct images in the imported posts, I couldn't find them in the Media Library. I use each post's Featured Image in several different ways and couldn't figure out how to even find the images that I could see in my posts. So I tracked them down. Turns out they are copies of my images and they live on an AWS server. I never gave the plugin permission to make copies of my images or to host them elsewhere. So that's fatal flaw #1: I've completely lost control of my own images. They are on a server for which I have only Read permissions. I've already alluded to fatal flaw #2: The images aren't on my own server and therefore can't be used as Featured Images in my posts. Fatal flaw #3 would be that when AWS goes down (as it did a few days ago), all of those images would be broken on my site. I unpublished all the newly created posts and began replacing the images. So -- aside from the fatal flaws mentioned above, it likely would have taken just as much time to create the posts manually.
lisatann
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Details
The Substack Importer allows you to import content from a Substack newsletter into your WordPress site.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
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Tags
- importer
- substack
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- Version
- 1.2.0
- Last updated
- Apr 22, 2026
- First published
- Dec 11, 2020
- Requires WordPress
- 5.2
- Tested up to
- 6.9.7
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Substack Importer FAQ
What does Substack Importer do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Substack Importer offers Posts and images, Comments (only for publicly accessible posts) and Author information.
How many active installs does Substack Importer have?
WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs for Substack Importer as of September 7, 2026.
Is Substack Importer still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on April 22, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 6.9.7.
Is Substack Importer free?
Substack Importer is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.