converting HTML table list

  • Rob

    (@robirdman)


    5 years, 3 months ago

    I’ve been converting my old website over to WP, and made much progress on some tables and galleries, but have not found any way to import or copy these lists that works. Copying and pasting various aspects results in one big section with no individual links or anything to be useful. I don’t relish typing almost 10,000 species with their taxonomy by hand. the original was just copied and pasted from my MSAcess database into an HTML editor and the links added later. I’ve been stuck on this with no progress for a month.

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by Rob. Reason: left l off in link

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    I have done several of these conversions. I have used online tools that generate a feed, which then is imported using a plugin. I have also used WP Scraper, but it has a limit by default. Also Import HTML Pages, which is old but works.
    Also useful is a browser extension that lets you selectively copy table columns from a page to the clipboard, and then you can paste them into a spreadsheet or an editor.
    I usually accumulate the data in a spreadsheet and tweak things globally. Then I save it as CSV with the correct headings for a plugin like CSV Importer to load it into WordPress. The spreadsheet lets me copy a column to an editor where I can format each line the same way, then paste it back to the spreadsheet. Or do simple manipulations within the spreadsheet.

    Thread Starter Rob

    (@robirdman)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    “Import HTML pages” Is that by Bootstrap? Came up in search.

    Joy

    (@joyously)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    The one I have used is here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/import-html-pages/

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