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Custom taxonomy and hierarchical terms fail to import

Custom taxonomy columns and hierarchical parent-child terms do not import, or import as separate top-level terms.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 11 April 2016 · last reported 25 February 2024

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners who built custom post types and taxonomies report that the importer does not recognise their taxonomy columns, no matter which column name they try.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

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  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.