Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WXR file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert WXR to another file type
To convert WXR export files to another format, you need WordPress or other Web software.
Convert a file to WXR
To convert other file formats to the "CMS Export File" file type, you need software like WordPress or a similar tool.
About WXR files
The .WXR file format is a WordPress eXtended RSS document used to export and import site content like posts, pages, comments, custom fields, and tags between installations. Under the hood, it is an XML file natively generated by the export tool in WordPress. Real-world users face major annoyances with .WXR files: they easily exceed default PHP upload limits (like 2MB or 8MB) on cheap hosting, and they do not contain actual media files like images or videos, only URLs pointing to them. If the source server goes offline, your images are permanently lost. Furthermore, the raw format is unreadable for average users trying to review their blog posts locally. Users typically convert .WXR to CSV for bulk spreadsheet analysis, or JSON for migrating to modern headless CMS platforms. Converting to HTML or PDF is difficult because the file lacks CSS styling context and embedded media. This file format is difficult to open or convert into visual documents because it relies on complex, nested proprietary schemas that standard parsers ignore. Standard online converters fail to process the proprietary <wp:> tags cleanly.
Convert.Guru analyzes your WXR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert WXR file to , you can use WordPress or similar software from the "WordPress Site Content Export" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to WXR, try WordPress or another comparable tool in the "WordPress Site Content Export" category.
The WXR Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our WXR converter.