Simple Perfection.

  • Jupitercow

    (@jcow)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    This is EXACTLY what you want in a CSV importer. It very simply uses the actual column names used by WordPress to make sure everything goes where it should and if data doesn’t match a column name, it creates meta data from it.

    Most importers create their own terminology and over complicate things. This is the only csv importer you will ever need for posts.

    The only issue I had was that it does not seem to support an ID and I had posts coming to me in CSV that needed keep their ID. I would recommend support for it in the next release.

    That is a small issue, though for most people.

    Great plugin!

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  • Plugin Author Takuro Hishikawa

    (@hissy)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks jcow, I added issue about your suggestion.
    https://github.com/hissy/rs-csv-importer/issues/6

    Thread Starter Jupitercow

    (@jcow)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks for the quick update!

    Unfortunately it hasn’t changed anything for me. The issue I am having is that I need to create NEW posts using the post_id/ID field. Not just update existing. I tried the new version with both post_id and then ID and neither did that. They still used new ids.

    If it is possible to do that, this plugin will be perfect for my needs.

    Thanks again for the work so far. Easily the best CSV uploader I have seen.

    Plugin Author Takuro Hishikawa

    (@hissy)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    I got the point. wp_insert_post function has the argument insert_id, so maybe I can do that. I’d like to try.

    Thread Starter Jupitercow

    (@jcow)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    I looked into it a bit, and I don’t think it is possible to insert a new post, using wp_insert_post with a specific ID.

    I think it will try to find an existing post and update it, and if it can’t find an existing post, it will just create a new one with a new ID. I could be wrong, but that was the outcome of my testing.

    My use case is so specific, that it probably isn’t worth messing with it.

    For this project, I just created new posts with the ids that I have in a mass MySQL statement and then used your plugin to update them and add their meta data. This, honestly, isn’t a bad method in my book. Your plugin saved a ton of time getting the meta data in and cleaning up the information.

    It is a really great plugin.

    Thanks again.

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