diff --git a/wordpress_migrate.pages.inc b/wordpress_migrate.pages.inc
index c9a7719..5fa20c9 100644
--- a/wordpress_migrate.pages.inc
+++ b/wordpress_migrate.pages.inc
@@ -223,8 +223,7 @@ function wordpress_migrate_import_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
     $wxr_string = str_replace($content_ns, $atom_ns . "\n\t" . $content_ns, $wxr_string);
 
     // Fix unencoded ampersands
-    $wxr_string = str_replace('&', '&', $wxr_string);
-    $wxr_string = str_replace('&', '&', $wxr_string);
+    $wxr_string = preg_replace('/&(?![\w\d#]+;)/', '&', $wxr_string);
     file_put_contents($destination, $wxr_string);
     try {
       $blog = wordpress_migrate_blog($destination);