Title: load-importer-{$importer}
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: August 20, 2026

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# do_action( “load-importer-{$importer}” )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/load-importer-importer/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/load-importer-importer/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/load-importer-importer/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Fires before an importer screen is loaded.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/load-importer-importer/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

The dynamic portion of the hook name, `$importer`, refers to the importer slug.

Possible hook names include:

 * `load-importer-blogger`
 * `load-importer-wpcat2tag`
 * `load-importer-livejournal`
 * `load-importer-mt`
 * `load-importer-rss`
 * `load-importer-tumblr`
 * `load-importer-wordpress`

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/load-importer-importer/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    do_action( "load-importer-{$importer}" ); // phpcs:ignore WordPress.NamingConventions.ValidHookName.UseUnderscores
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/admin.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.1/src/wp-admin/admin.php#L340)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.1/src/wp-admin/admin.php#L340-L340)

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/load-importer-importer/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.5.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.5.0/) | Introduced. |

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