Plugin Installation

1. Log into your WordPress site Admin area.
2. On the left, you'll see a sidebar of links. Hover your mouse above Plugins and click Add New.
3. In the plugin search box, search for "Vintillect".
4. When you see the Vintillect Importer card display, click Install Now, and then Activate.
5. In the left sidebar menu, Vintillect Importer.

Removing Plugin

It helps to keep your site clean of plugins that you don't need anymore. If you do not intend on doing anymore data imports in the near future, deactivate and delete this plugin.

1. Log into your WordPress site Admin area.
2. On the left, you'll see a sidebar of links. Hover your mouse above Plugins and click Installed Plugins.
3. Find Vintillect Importer plugin in the list.
4. Be sure to rate this plugin. It helps us help many others find this useful tool.
5. Click Deactivate.
6. Click Delete.

Posts Tab

• Merge Rows By - When you change this option, it merges the rows together according to time period. The main reason for this is that it's annoying to click on a blog article and see a tiny status update. Now imagine clicking on a blog article for each and every status update. It's better to group many of them together so that there's more content on each page and less clicking.
• Title Date Formats - With status updates, there are no titles. Instead, there's a date and time, so that's what's provided as the title. Different countries have different preferences for displaying dates and times. When you change this option, it changes how the title (date & time) in each row.
• Import Tags - When creating a post, and if there are any tags in the post, it will add the tag to the blog post.
• Default Post Status - When you make a new post, do you want it to go to Draft or Publish it already? When you are just starting out with this plugin, it is recommended that you leave it as Draft so that you can play with how you want to make these posts, make mistakes, preview them, delete those posts, and think about the best way to create posts using this plugin.
• Import All Checked Rows - (used with the dropdown to the right) Look at the top of the table to the left of "Create Post". If you click on that checkbox, you'll notice that all the checkboxes in the table are checked for you. If you have "this page only" selected in the dropdown, then when you click the "Import All Checked Rows" button, it will only create posts for those rows that are checked on this page. But if you select "all pages", then it will create posts for all the checked rows on all pages. Use this with caution because you may create many posts for you and you may decide after that you really wanted the rows grouped differently, and then you need to delete a bunch of posts. It is recommended that you practice making some posts first individually and preview them to see how you like them presented before creating many posts.
• Show # entries - How many rows that you want displayed on each page.
• Minimum Date to Maximum Date - Use this calendar picker to filter the rows on date ranges. This could be useful if you want different date ranges to be grouped/merged differently. In your earlier years, you may have posted less frequently than your later years, so different time periods will have differing amounts of content.
• Search (filter query) - (self explanatory)
• Go to Bottom / Go to Top - Click to quickly go to the top or bottom of the page without scrolling with your mouse or trackpad.
• Numbered Blue Boxes - These are the page list buttons. It can also include Previous and Next page links.
• Create Post - When you click on this button, it will create one new post for that row only. That row may be a group of posts. It will either keep it as draft or publish it depending on what you selected for the Default Post Status.
• Posted - (green row marker) This temporary label is applied when you create a blog post that includes that post. It helps you so that you don't have to try to remember which posts are already imported when you change the merge group. If you leave this tab (close the page, go to a different page or tab), then these markers will disappear as they are only temporary and not stored.
• Media cannot be imported without the Photos & Videos in Posts option. - This notice lets you know that if you have images or videos in your posts that they will not be imported. Your posts with text and links (including image previews) will be imported though. You can purchase this option for a small fee.

Photo and Video Albums

• Upload Individual File - clicking this button will only upload the image or video to your WordPress Media Library.
• Create Gallery - creates a single blog post that contains the media for that row. You can select the Merge Rows option to combine multiple rows so that more media can be combined into a single blog post.
• Import All Checked Rows - creates blog posts for every checked row. Works similarly to "Create Gallery" but it creates multiple blog posts using checked rows.
• Media cannot be imported without the Photos & Videos in Posts option. - This notice lets you know that if you have images or videos in your posts that they will not be imported. Your posts with text and links (including image previews) will be imported though. You can purchase this option for a small fee.

Videos Tab

The options are the same as those in the Photo and Video Albums Tab (above). These are videos that you have uploaded to Facebook, maybe even to Reels.

Chat Media (Direct Message Photos and Videos)

The title column has links showing an indication of the user(s) you chatted with. The File Count column gives you an indication of how many photos or videos you had in that that DM conversation.

When you click on a link in the Title column, you'll see a familiar table with the same form options as Posts. Instead of seeing "Create Post" buttons, you see "Create Gallery" buttons. When click the Create Gallery button, it will upload the pictures or videos in that row and create a post with that media included. A thumbnail preview collage will be created for the blog roll preview of that gallery post if there are multiple images. The "Upload Individual File" button just uploads the individual file to your media library and doesn't create a blog post.

Messenger photos and videos are available as an option to import media into WordPress. You often share these memories directly with your friends, but you don't share them on your timeline. When you upload to WordPress, they aren't turned into posts in a blog, but rather kept in your WordPress media library. You can then share them in blog posts that you then create. Please use discretion and don't abuse this feature.