Title: Creating posts from tabular data
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Creating posts from tabular data

 *  [manskybook](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manskybook/)
 * (@manskybook)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-posts-from-tabular-data/)
 * I’d like to be able to create a blog/site from an existing database that can 
   be exported in CSV or other flat-file formats and imported into WP. I would like
   to be able to have each record correspond to one post (which, of course, I can
   edit, and to which others can comment or rate).
 * Is there a plugin, or some obvious thing I’m missing about WordPress, that allows
   me to do this?
 * I’ll give you an example. Let’s say I had a database of roses that one could 
   grow in the US. Is there a way that I can create posts from information that 
   includes rose color, growing season, growing region, fragrance, hybrid inheritance,
   description, rating of ease of care, rating of quality, etc? Is there some plugin
   or process that would allow me to import that database so that the rose name 
   was the title of the post, and all the information appeared in the template, 
   to which readers could comment?

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 *  [Rod Whiteley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rod-whiteley/)
 * (@rod-whiteley)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-posts-from-tabular-data/#post-4115752)
 * One way is to make a few test posts in WordPress and export them. Then convert
   your database of roses into a file with the same format, and import it.
 * The Codex lists various possible import formats, but it is not clear whether 
   the [CSV Import Plugin](http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#CSV_Files)
   mentioned there still works well (or ever did).
 *  Thread Starter [manskybook](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manskybook/)
 * (@manskybook)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-posts-from-tabular-data/#post-4115809)
 * Thanks. I will try that. I have at least that number of fields, and even a partial
   import would be useful.

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## Tags

 * [csv](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/csv/)
 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [Import](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/import/)
 * [tabular](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tabular/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-posts-from-tabular-data/#post-4115809)
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