[Plugin: CSV Importer] Support for Thumbnail Import?

  • bosshawk

    (@bosshawk)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    I have a site making use of WP 2.9’s new feature, the thumbnail. I have used this great tool to import thousands of posts. It works as expected. However, there is still one thing I need to solve, the thumbnail. I am using a magazine style theme (Arras Theme 1.4) which requires a thumbnail for each post. Currently I have to use the Admin Panel and Edit and Set Thumbnail and Update each post manually. I am looking for a way to speed this up since I have many posts. The pictures/thumbnails are uploaded to the Media Library. The title of each post and the corresponding thumbnail’s file name are known.

    dvkob, any plan to include a feature for batch importing/updating the thumbnail?

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/csv-importer/

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  • dvkob

    (@dvkob)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    bosshawk: No, I’m not planning to add batch importing of thumbnails to the plugin, one of the main reasons being that it’s not possible to put images in a CSV file.

    If the only thing required to associate a post and a thumbnail from the Media Library is a common title, then you might want to look at plugins that batch upload images (if there are any).

    Thread Starter bosshawk

    (@bosshawk)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    dvkob, Thank you for the quick response. I understand that it is not feasible to actually import/upload images using this tool. Actually the Media Library can do this with no problem.

    The real problem I am facing is,
    1. I have posts imported using your plugin
    2. I have images uploaded to the Media Library
    3. I know which image (file name) should go with which post, as a thumbnail

    Currently I have to set up thumbnail for each post manually, in the Admin panel.

    Is it possible/worthwhile to add one column in the CSV file to indicate which image (image file path/name in the Media Library) to use for each post, and the plugin then set up the image as the thumbnail of the post?

    Thank you

    HEB

    (@heb)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    @bosshawk, could you find out a solution for the thumbnail issue as a csv-import? I got the same problem.

    @dvkob, still no motivation to add it? Would be worth a donation 🙂

    dvkob

    (@dvkob)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    HEB: I promise to at least consider it 🙂

    activestatedesigns

    (@activestatedesigns)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Hello there,

    I am having the same issues bringing in images when I have a mass import via CSV Importer plugin. I am trying to bring in all my products and I can successfully get all post content including custom taxonomies and custom fields imported. However I cannot get it to pull up the images.

    I have uploaded my post image here: http://activestatedesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/TEE-I-CO-Ski02_Design.jpg and it’s uploaded in media library just fine. But then I try the heading of this: csv_post_content in my .csv file with this <img src=”http://activestatedesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/TEE-I-CO-Ski02_Design.jpg&#8221; /> to call in that image. But it doesn’t work?

    Does anyone have any ideas how to do this? I really need to get these images for my product loads… I have two images per product.

    Thanks,
    Lorne

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