Freakedout Content Uploader CSV & Excel Import

Description

This plugin links your WordPress site to the Content Uploader service. Prepare CSV or Excel content in your workspace, select a writable content type, map destination fields and taxonomies, preview a row, and publish. Upload the changed spreadsheet later to update the same items in bulk. Stable external IDs and durable operation records let retries finish the same item instead of creating another post.

What the service can publish on a WordPress site, with examples, is described at https://contentuploader.com/wordpress

This version supports writable REST-visible post types and their exposed title, body, excerpt, slug, status, author, date, comment, parent, menu-order, category, tag, custom-taxonomy, custom field and featured image capabilities. Available fields depend on the selected content type and the approving administrator’s permissions. The service is never signed in to your site: each request is checked against that administrator’s permissions, limited to content. It can read, create, update and publish content, assign and create terms and add images, and never holds the permissions to install or change plugins or themes, manage users, change settings or edit files, even though the account that connected it is an administrator.

On a shop with WooCommerce 9.0 or later, products are offered too, with their price, sale price and sale dates, SKU and GTIN, stock, tax, weight and dimensions, catalogue visibility, categories, tags, brands, attributes, upsells and cross-sells, image and gallery. Variable products and their variations are included: variations are updated by SKU, and can be made under a product that exists. Products are written through WooCommerce’s own product functions, so its price and stock data stay in step, and a stock quantity is set to the number in the file. Before publishing, the service can read the current price, stock and other values of the products a file would change, so that its review shows what the shop holds now. Grouped products and downloadable files are not written: a row for a grouped product is named and left as it is. Orders and customers are never read or written.

Custom fields are post meta. Registered single-value meta keeps its registered type (text, whole number, number or yes/no); other keys are stored as text, as the Custom Fields box stores them. Keys WordPress protects, such as those starting with an underscore, are written only when their registration allows the connected administrator to edit them. Featured images are downloaded from the service’s private storage through short-lived links, checked against their announced size and content hash and to be images this site accepts, and added to the media library once: the same image is reused for every post that uses it. The site needs outgoing HTTPS access to the storage host. Images already in the media library can also be found by file name.

A Content Uploader account and an HTTPS site are required. Spreadsheet preparation, storage, orchestration and history are provided by the external service. The plugin is not a standalone spreadsheet importer. No WordPress admin password or manually generated application password is requested by the service.

The plugin contains the whole connector. It has no locked or trial features and never checks a plan or a payment: what the service allows each account is decided by the service, before it sends anything to your site.

External services

This plugin is the WordPress side of the Content Uploader service, https://contentuploader.com, which is run by the plugin’s author. The service stores your spreadsheets, maps their columns to WordPress fields, shows a preview and sends the content to your site. It has a free plan and paid plans with larger monthly allowances: https://contentuploader.com/pricing

Nothing is sent to the service by installing or activating the plugin. Your site shares data with it only after an administrator selects Connect to Content Uploader and approves the connection, and then only in these situations:

• When an administrator selects Connect: the administrator’s browser is sent to the service with a one-time pairing code, the site address and the installation identifier.
• When the connection is made and whenever the service refreshes what the site can accept: your site address, installation identifier, WordPress and plugin versions, the content types, fields and taxonomies that can be written, and when access ends. This includes the display names of users who can edit content so imports can assign authors; their usernames and email addresses too, but only if the connecting administrator is allowed to list users; and the names of up to 100 custom fields already used on the site, which are offered as suggestions when mapping.
• When you publish from Content Uploader: the service sends the content to create or update (titles, text, custom field values, taxonomy terms, external IDs and operation IDs) and links to images, which your site downloads over HTTPS from the service’s private storage. Your site returns the IDs and outcomes.
• Before you publish: for items that a file would update, and for products whose SKU appears in a file, the service can ask your site for what it holds now (for a product: its name, SKU, price, sale, stock and similar values, never customers or orders) so that the review can show the differences. The same questions are asked again when you publish.

No visitor analytics, advertising or other telemetry is collected by this plugin.

Service terms: https://contentuploader.com/terms
Service privacy policy: https://contentuploader.com/privacy