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This plugin imports posts from CSV (Comma Separated Value) files into your WordPress blog. It can prove extremely useful when you want to import a bunch of posts from an Excel document or the like – simply export your document into a CSV file and the plugin will take care of the rest.
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Click on the CSV Importer link on your WordPress admin page, choose the file you would like to import and click Import. The examples
directory inside the plugin’s directory contains several files that demonstrate how to use the plugin. The best way to get started is to import one of these files and look at the results.
CSV is a tabular format that consists of rows and columns. Each row in a CSV file represents a post; each column identifies a piece of information that comprises a post.
csv_post_title
– title of the postcsv_post_post
– body of the postcsv_post_type
– post
, page
or a custom post type.csv_post_type
column was added to support custom post types as well.csv_post_excerpt
– post excerptcsv_post_categories
– a comma separated list of category names or ids.Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia
. If any of the categories in the chain does not exist, the plugin will automatically create it. It’s also possible to specify the parent category using an id, as in 42 > Primates > Callitrichidae
, where 42
is an existing category id.csv_post_tags
– a comma separated list of tags.csv_post_date
– about any English textual description of a date and time.now
, 11/16/2009 0:00
, 1999-12-31 23:55:00
, +1 week
, next Thursday
, last year
are all valid descriptions. For technical details, consult PHP’s strtotime()
function documentation.Any column that doesn’t start with csv_
is considered to be a custom field name. The data in that column will be imported as the custom fields value.
csv_post_title
, csv_post_post
or csv_post_excerpt
are sufficient to create a post. If all of these columns are empty in a row, the plugin will skip that row.>
csv_post_author
– numeric user id or login name. If not specified or user does not exist, the plugin will assign the posts to the user performing the import.csv_post_slug
– post slug used in permalinks.csv_post_parent
– post parent id.New in version 0.3.0
Once custom taxonomies are set up in your theme’s functions.php file or by using a 3rd party plugin, csv_ctax_(taxonomy name)
columns can be used to assign imported data to the taxonomies.
Non-hierarchical taxonomies
The syntax for non-hierarchical taxonomies is straightforward and is essentially the same as the csv_post_tags
syntax.
Hierarchical taxonomies
The syntax for hierarchical taxonomies is more complicated. Each hierarchical taxonomy field is a tiny two-column CSV file, where the order of columns matters. The first column contains the name of the parent term and the second column contains the name of the child term. Top level terms have to be preceded either by an empty string or a 0 (zero).
Sample examples/custom-taxonomies.csv
file included with the plugin illustrates custom taxonomy support. To see how it works, make sure to set up custom taxonomies from functions.inc.php
.
Make sure that the quotation marks used as text delimiters in csv_ctax_
columns are regular ASCII double quotes, not typographical quotes like “ (U+201C) and ” (U+201D).
New in version 0.3.1
An example file with comments is included in the examples
directory. In short, comments can be imported along with posts by specifying columns such as csv_comment_*_author
, csv_comment_*_content
etc, where * is a comment ID number. This ID doesn’t go into WordPress. It is only there to have the connection information in the CSV file.
This plugin uses php-csv-parser by Kazuyoshi Tlacaelel. It was inspired by JayBlogger’s CSV Import plugin.
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