Title: Custom post types importing as posts
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Custom post types importing as posts

 *  Resolved [Susan Langenes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/susanlangenes/)
 * (@susanlangenes)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-importing-as-posts/)
 * I saw that this has happened before [here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-97?replies=4),
   but it looks like OP never followed up.
 * I have a column heading for wp_post_type, with the post type as ‘grant’ and while
   I’ve been able to successfully import CSV files for posts of ‘grant’ type in 
   the past, I’m currently not able to get it to work.
 * Incidentally, I checked the DB for postmeta, and it appears that the post meta
   does get imported, as do taxonomy term relationships.
 * Once I saw that, I managed a workaround using [Convert Post Types](https://wordpress.org/plugins/convert-post-types/)
   plugin. This plugin supplies an interface where you can convert all posts of 
   any one type into another, with the ability to limit the posts being converted
   to a specific category (post category is the only taxonomy you can use as a limiter
   btw). So this works going from post to grant; wouldn’t work going the other way.
 * I imported the grants as posts, then gave them all a new category ‘convert-to-
   grant’, and converted them using the above plugin.
 * I would dearly LOVE to *not* have to make a tutorial for my client explaining
   how they can do this workaround, so if you have any insights on how to get grants
   to be grants and not posts, I’d love it!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-csv/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-csv/)

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 *  Plugin Author [CPK Web Solutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpkwebsolutions/)
 * (@cpkwebsolutions)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-importing-as-posts/#post-6653495)
 * Hi Susan
 * Thanks for the detailed bug report. Appreciated.
 * I’d LOVE to be working on the plugin full time, but unfortunately it doesn’t 
   pay the bills.
 * Could be several weeks, but I’ll add your report to the list and try to reproduce/
   fix at some point.
 * Since you’re the first to report it, there’s still a possibility that it’s just
   your config. If you’re in a hurry, then consider de-activating other plugins 
   to see if they’re interfering with the save operation at all.
 * Best wishes
 * Paul
 *  Thread Starter [Susan Langenes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/susanlangenes/)
 * (@susanlangenes)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-importing-as-posts/#post-6653499)
 * Hi Paul and thanks for your quick reply. I definitely understand about needing
   to pay the bills!
 * I’ll play around with deactivating other plugins. The only one we’ve added between
   now and when we were last able to successfully import is Sucuri Security; seems
   like a good suspect so I did deactivate it but, alas, no change.
 * Many other plugins have been updated, however, so I’ll see if I can slog through
   them and keep you posted here.
 *  Plugin Author [CPK Web Solutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpkwebsolutions/)
 * (@cpkwebsolutions)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-importing-as-posts/#post-6653628)
 * Hi Susan
 * I’ve tested create and modify. In both cases I can set the wp_post_type to any
   text I like (even custom post types that don’t exist).
 * Have you got another WP site that you could test on? You should get the same 
   results as me.
 * Another suggestion would be to create a grant custom post manually, export, and
   then do a field by field comparison with the ones that are failing to work. Maybe
   it’s another field (ie post_status) at fault?
 * Best wishes
 * Paul

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 * Last reply from: [CPK Web Solutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpkwebsolutions/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-types-importing-as-posts/#post-6653628)
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