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1. mavens123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   My plugin was installed successfully but as I am new to coding, html, etc. I can't find the path mentioned in the plugin settings. It says the path for the plugin to find my files is: /home/content/j/o/y/joycejorg66/html/AginginPlaceOptions/html-files-to-import.

   But I don't know where to find this in my FTP directory. Don't I have to put my html files in this path somewhere? I couldn't find info to this missing link anywhere in your instructions. Maybe I'm not the only newbie to this?

   Thanks,
   Joyce

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/import-html-pages/

2. mrose17
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   the plugin is showing you the default directory for import, expressed as a unix filesystem path. the import directory is supposed to reside in your website's root directory and should have the name "html-files-to-import".

   the unix filesystem name of the root directory for your website is probably "/home/content/j/o/y/joycejorg66/html/AginginPlaceOptions/" .

   if you don't want to create a subdirectory in the root directory of your website, you can create the directory elsewhere, and then you need to change the "Directory to import" setting that you get when you are at settings>html import.

   if you do want to create a subdirectory in the root directory of your website, use whatever "webftp" interface your hosting service and navigate to to the directory called "AginginPlaceOptions" . you'll know you are in the right place because that directory will contain a file called "wp-config.php" - when you are in the root directory of your website, create a directory called "html-files-to-import" and then put all of the files that you want to import there.

   note that the HTML Import Settings page has six tabs with many, many options. before you import, it is imperative that you go to each tab and verify that the correction options are set.

   for first time use, i suggest that you import just one file to make sure that you've got the import directory in the right place and the import options are set appropriately.

   good luck!

3. mavens123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   It worked great! Thank you. I had another question though as this plugin doesn't seem to be answering my dilemma.

   When I inserted this file into my blog page, it just came up as a link. What I really want is this file to show up as an actual page. How can I do that? Or is that beyond the scope of this plugin?

   Thanks,
   Joyce

4. mrose17
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   my guess is that what you're seeing is the summary of what the plugin did.

   try this: go to the admin dashboard, and go to "Posts > All Posts" - see if the page you imported is there. if so, mouse over the title of that post and you'll see "View". click on that and it should take you to the newly imported page.

5. mavens123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   No, it's not. When I first imported the html doc, it said to go the media library to view it. So I did & it seemed to be there. I added it to my page and then it came up as a link. I don't want it as a post but a page.

   Now, however, in looking at this situation further, what I see is my earlier attempts in the media library so it isn't showing up or I don't know where to find it. Hope that makes sense. It did say it was imported successfully and showed the file in the list of successful transfers. But then it said to view it in the media library.

   Thanks,
   Joyce

6. mrose17
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   oops! i misunderstood. i'm pretty sure that the plugin imports things to posts only, no pages. if you want it as a page, that's easy enough with cut-and-paste and two browser windows.

   in terms of the media library: when the plugin does it's thing, there are four sections of output:

   1. "Importing HTML files..." followed by a table with four columns. the fourth column is "Title" and that contains links to the imported posts

   2. "Importing images..." which ends with "Go to the Media Library." you can click on that to see the images, etc., that came along with the posts.

   3. "Fixing relative links..." and finally "All done!"

   the key thing is that the first section gives you links to each imported article.

7. mavens123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Thanks for explaining that.

   I'm not sure what you mean though about the cut and paste with the 2 browser windows. When have an html editor open how do I publish it to my WordPress blog or how do I cut and paste out of it? It says you can select the parent, child, etc. but I'm not sure what that means.

   I don't know if you can help me with this or not or if you know of a site that might have some answers, that would be great.

   thanks,
   Joyce

8. mrose17
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   if you want to take something that was imported as a post and turn it into a page, do this:

   open two browser windows. have both of them go to the admin dashboard.

   in the first window, click on "Posts>All Posts", find the post that was imported. mouse over the title and click on "Edit" to edit the post.

   in the second window, click on "Pages>All pages", and then click on "Add New" on the top of a page.

   in the two windows you will now see several fields in particular a title and a description. in the first window, these are filled-in, in the second window, they are blank.

   go to the title field in the first window, select all, copy it, go to the second window and paste it in the title field.

   go to the description field in the first window, select all, copy it, go to the second window and paste it in the description field.

   now look at the other settings in the second window and set whatever you normally do, and then you can click on "Publish" or whatever.

9. Stephanie Leary
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   The plugin can import content as posts, pages, or any other content type. There is a dropdown option for this under the Meta tab.

   Joyce, you might want to go through the user guide.

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