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Import your Wild Apricot website content

MapleGather can bring over your Wild Apricot site’s pages, blog posts, and forum threads — but it reads them from an archive you create, not by visiting your Wild Apricot site directly. This guide walks you through capturing that archive, uploading it, and choosing what to keep.

Who can do this: Admins with permission to import Wild Apricot website content. Without that permission the page says “You don’t have permission to access this” — ask your Org Owner.

Before you start

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  • Run HTTrack — a free website-copying tool — against your public Wild Apricot site, and zip the result into a single .zip file. See Why Wild Apricot website content import is archive-based for why this is the only way to bring your site content over, and what doesn’t come across.
  • Set your expectations: this brings across page text, blog posts, and forum threads as editable drafts. It does not bring across gadget settings, member-only access rules, or your site menus — you’ll rebuild those in MapleGather, and layouts may look a little different.

Steps

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  1. Go to /admin/migration/wa/content/new in your browser’s address bar. There’s no link to the website content import from the Migration page or the Wild Apricot import wizard yet.
  2. Select Browse files (or drop your archive onto the upload area) to choose your HTTrack .zip file.
  3. Once the file finishes uploading, select Start parsing.
  4. Wait for MapleGather to finish reading your archive. This can take a few minutes for a large site — you can leave the page and come back.
  5. Once reading finishes, you’ll see how many pages, blog posts, and forum threads were found. Select Review pages, blog posts & forum threads to continue.
  6. Review each item. Every item is kept by default — uncheck Keep on anything you don’t want.
  7. Check the Notes column. An item may carry a Layout may differ or Unmatched author badge. There’s no rendered preview of an item before import — you’ll see how it looks once it’s a draft.
  8. If an item shows broken images, choose Skip broken images only (keeps the item, drops just the missing images) or Skip page (leaves the whole item out).
  9. Once you’ve reviewed everything, select Accept selected (the button shows how many items you’re keeping). If you haven’t loaded every detected item yet, you’ll be asked to load the rest or confirm you understand the unloaded items won’t be imported. Accepting is final for this archive — you can’t add a skipped or not-yet-loaded item afterward without uploading and parsing the archive again.
  10. Select Import as drafts to finish. Your kept pages, blog posts, and forum threads are created as drafts — nothing publishes automatically.
  11. Select Go to website content to review and publish your imported drafts.
  12. Select View content-import audit log (at the top of the review screen) for a record of the archive you imported and how many items came across.

Verify

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You’ll know it worked when the accept step reports the number of pages, blog posts, and forum threads created, and those items appear as drafts in the Website pages, blog, and forum areas.

If something goes wrong

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  • “That doesn’t look like an HTTrack archive” — see Your Wild Apricot archive won’t parse or import.
  • A blog post’s author isn’t recognized — the post still imports, with the original author shown as text. You can link it to a member afterward from the blog area.
  • A forum thread’s replies look flattened — deep nesting isn’t preserved during import. Replies come across in order; you can restructure a thread afterward in the Community area.
  • Everything shows as zero items detected — double-check you ran HTTrack against your live public site (not an admin-only area), then re-upload.
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