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1. hanexs
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I am importing a lot of recipes to a recipe site I am making. I have used some code i found from this post http://wordpress.org/support/topic/146915?replies=7 to import all the recipes. It works great. I have a couple problems though

   I would like the posts to be automatically made as DRAFTS, so I review them and then publish them every couple of days.

   I can't find what I would insert into the RSS to mark it as a draft. I tried <wp-status>Draft, which I found on these boards, but it didnt work.

   Anyways the blog is empty, so if there was a way to turn ALL posts into drafts, that would work too.

   This is the format of every post:
   <item>
   <title>CNN</title>
   <description>
   The last global channel. http://www.cnn.com
   </description>
   <category>TV</category>
   </item>

   Is there anything I could insert into that to mark the post as a draft?

   Thanks for the help!

   Hanexs

2. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Add this to each post:

   <wp:status>draft</wp:status>

3. hanexs
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Tried it, still not working. If I import it in as an RSS File, it imports fine but comes in published. If I import it in as a wordpress file it comes in as draft, but I lose the entire post (everything between the description tag). Any solutions?

   Here is the format im using.

   <item>
   <title>DIABETIC DATE DAINTIES</title>
   <wp:status>draft</wp:status>
   <description> 2 eggs
   1 1/2 tsp. liquid sweetener
   </description>
   <category>Diabetic Recipes</category>
   <category>Deserts</category>
   </item>

4. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 4 years ago #

   When importing through the WordPress import (the one that will accept post status), you need to move the content you have under <description> into a <content:encoded> element. Inside the element you also want to block it into a <![CDATA[ .. ]]> section (this is an XML component that informs XML parsers to ignore it, i.e. leave as is).

   Your example would then look like:
   

   <item>
   <title>DIABETIC DATE DAINTIES</title>
   <wp:status>draft</wp:status>
   <description></description>
   <content:encoded><![CDATA[2 eggs
   1 1/2 tsp. liquid sweetener]]></content:encoded>
   <category>Diabetic Recipes</category>
   <category>Deserts</category>
   </item>

   P.S. Probably should be the Desserts category. :)

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