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Advanced CSV Importer

Description

The Advanced CSV Importer will import the following content from a CSV file.

Advanced CSV Importer is fully unit-tested. The plugin is stable and ready to be used in large projects like enterprise applications.

  • Posts, pages and other custom post types
  • Custom fields and post meta
  • Categories, tags

https://github.com/miya0001/advanced-csv-importer

This plugin requires PHP 5.3 or later.

Default CSV field names

  • ID
  • post_content
  • post_name
  • post_title
  • post_status
  • post_type
  • post_author
  • ping_status
  • post_parent
  • menu_order
  • to_ping
  • pinged
  • post_password
  • guid
  • post_content_filtered
  • post_excerpt
  • post_date
  • post_date_gmt
  • comment_status
  • post_category
  • tags_input
  • page_template

You can change field name via acsv_post_object_keys hook like following.

add_filter( 'acsv_post_object_keys', function( $post_object_keys ){
    $post_object_keys['title'] = 'post_title';
    $post_object_keys['content'] = 'post_content';
    return $post_object_keys;
} );

Other columns will be saved to the custom field.

There is a sample of the CSV.



ID post_name post_author post_date post_type post_status post_title post_content post_category tags_input custom_field
Import-test admin 2013/9/13 0:00 post publish CSV Import Test This is a post for csv import.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
fruits apple,banana this is custom field value.
editor post publish define author test
2 post define author id test
1 Hello-world-updated post Hello world! Updated! Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Updated by RS CSV Importer!

view raw

test.csv

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Action Hooks

  • acsv_after_insert_post

Filter Hooks

  • acsv_post_object_keys
  • acsv_post_defaults
  • acsv_import_upload_size_limit
  • acsv_pre_get_post_objects
  • acsv_after_get_post_objects
  • acsv_csv_format
  • acsv_csv_to_hash_array
  • acsv_get_user_by_field

WP-CLI

Importing:

$ wp csv import tests/_data/wp/sample.csv
+------+-----------------------+------+---------+------------+---------------------+
| ID   | Title                 | Type | Status  | Author     | Date                |
+------+-----------------------+------+---------+------------+---------------------+
| 1720 | CSV Import Test       | post | publish | admin      | 2013-09-13 00:00:00 |
| 1721 | define author test    | post | publish | admin      | 2014-12-27 18:44:46 |
| 1722 | define author id test | post | publish | themedemos | 2014-12-27 18:44:46 |
| 1    | Hello world! Updated! | post | publish | admin      | 2014-12-27 18:44:46 |
+------+-----------------------+------+---------+------------+---------------------+

History:

$ wp csv log
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+---------+---------+
| ID       | Title                       | Date                | Success | Failure |
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+---------+---------+
| e0a66344 | Imported from WP-CLI.       | 2014-12-27 18:44:46 |       4 |       0 |
| 43c47af6 | Imported from admin screen. | 2014-12-27 16:53:17 |       4 |       0 |
| df0f140b | Imported from WP-CLI.       | 2014-12-27 16:21:42 |       4 |       0 |
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+---------+---------+

Details of the history:

$ wp csv log e0a66344
+------+-----------------------+------+---------+------------+---------------------+
| ID   | Title                 | Type | Status  | Author     | Date                |
+------+-----------------------+------+---------+------------+---------------------+
| 1720 | CSV Import Test       | post | publish | admin      | 2013-09-13 00:00:00 |
| 1721 | define author test    | post | publish | admin      | 2014-12-27 18:44:46 |
| 1722 | define author id test | post | publish | themedemos | 2014-12-27 18:44:46 |
| 1    | Hello world! Updated! | post | publish | admin      | 2014-12-27 18:44:46 |
+------+-----------------------+------+---------+------------+---------------------+

Screenshots

  • Tools Import Screen
  • The result of an importing
  • History of importing

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

e.g.

  1. Upload plugin-name.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Place <?php do_action('plugin_name_hook'); ?> in your templates

Reviews

Sentabr 3, 2016
Nice simple plugin that does what it says. Could use a few extra options without requiring the user to add/edit code.
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Contributors & Developers

“Advanced CSV Importer” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

0.1.0

  • Initial release.