Title: Novarum Importer Author: Novarum Software & Consulting Published: December 5, 2018 Last modified: December 12, 2018 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/novarum-json-importer/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1985883) # Novarum Importer By [Novarum Software & Consulting](https://profiles.wordpress.org/novarum/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/novarum-json-importer.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/novarum-json-importer/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/novarum-json-importer/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/novarum-json-importer/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/novarum-json-importer/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/novarum-json-importer/) ## Description NovarumImporter JSON importer plugin for WordPress. It helps you call any REST Api endpoint and import JSON response to wordpress. It supports custom post types as well. ### Handling Api Requests Go to Settings->Novarum Importer and open \”Request Options\” tab. From this tab you can define how the api should be called and what parameters should be passed. Note that, this plugin uses PHP curl extension so it has to be enabled on the server side. Most of the hosting providers enable this feature by default. * URL: This field is to define the url that will be called. * Request Type: This is to choose what verb should be used when calling the url. Default is GET * Fields: If the request type is POST or PUT, you can define the fields that can be passed as request body. If you are making a GET call you would need to add fields to the url instead. * Authentication Type: Some api endpoints require you to pass Username and Password as Basic Authentication parameters on the header of the request. If that\’s the case, you can choose Basic Authentication and define the Username and Password. Apart from that, it\’s common for REST apis to require tokens on request body, on this case you would need to define it on Fields field. * Headers: Some REST Api endpoints require specific header parameters, ie content type. If that\’s the case, you can define the header values on this text field. If you need to define more than one header key, please add one item per line. Ie: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8 Host: www.example.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/ 28.0 ### Setting up the Importer If the request is correct and you get a valid JSON as response, you can now set up the parameters on how to import the data to wordpress. * Array key: This parameter is the key the plugin will iterate through to import all the items under this array. Ie, if your JSON response is as: { “response”: { “data”: [ {“title”: “item 1”, “description”: “Description 1”}, {“ title”: “item 2”, “description”: “Description 2”}, ] } } Then you can set Response.data as the array key * Title key: Which key should be taken as the post’s title. This key should be under the Array key so according to above example it would be “title” * Description key: Which key should be taken as the post’s content. This key should be under the Array key so according to above example it would be “description” * Date key: Which key should be taken as the post’s date. This key should be under the Array key and it can be left blank. If it’s left blank it takes the current date as the post’s date. ### Notes This plugin is under heavy development. If you have any suggestions, comments, or issues please send it to team@novarumsoftware.com or open a request. ### TODO * Allow Meta tags and taxonomies to be imported as well * Make the api calls in the background * Realtime status display for import process * Allow api calls to be scheduled * Special settings for paginations (either with page value or with offset,limit combination) ## Screenshots [⌊Request options⌉⌊Request options⌉[ Request options [⌊Importer options⌉⌊Importer options⌉[ Importer options ## Installation 1. Upload Novarum Importer plugin folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Go to Settings->Novarum Importer, set up the request and set Importing options ## FAQ How can i import the data if JSON response itself an array? Please leave Array Key empty and the plugin will take the root object as array How can i import fields as meta values? This feature is on our roadmap but it’s not completed yet. Please stay tuned for updates. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Novarum Importer” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Novarum Software & Consulting ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/novarum/) [Translate “Novarum Importer” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/novarum-json-importer) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/novarum-json-importer/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/novarum-json-importer/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/novarum-json-importer/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/novarum-json-importer/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.1 * Initial version #### 1.0.2 * Compability with WordPress 5.0 * Date/Time functions now use strtotime function to parse the dates ## Meta * Version **1.0.1** * Last updated **8 years ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 4.9.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **5.0.25** * PHP version ** 5.6 or higher ** * Tags * [import](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/import/)[JSON](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/json/) [rest-api](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rest-api/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/novarum-json-importer/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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