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<p>The Advanced CSV Importer will import the following content from a CSV file.</p>
<p>Advanced CSV Importer is fully unit-tested. The plugin is stable and ready to be used in large projects like enterprise applications.</p>
<ul>
<li>Posts, pages and other custom post types</li>
<li>Custom fields and post meta</li>
<li>Categories, tags</li>
</ul>
<p>https://github.com/miya0001/advanced-csv-importer</p>
<p>This plugin requires PHP 5.3 or later.</p>
<h4>Default CSV field names</h4>
<ul>
<li>ID</li>
<li>post_content</li>
<li>post_name</li>
<li>post_title</li>
<li>post_status</li>
<li>post_type</li>
<li>post_author</li>
<li>ping_status</li>
<li>post_parent</li>
<li>menu_order</li>
<li>to_ping</li>
<li>pinged</li>
<li>post_password</li>
<li>guid</li>
<li>post_content_filtered</li>
<li>post_excerpt</li>
<li>post_date</li>
<li>post_date_gmt</li>
<li>comment_status</li>
<li>post_category</li>
<li>tags_input</li>
<li>page_template</li>
</ul>
<p>You can change field name via <code>acsv_post_object_keys</code> hook like following.</p>
<pre><code>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;
} );
</code></pre>
<p>Other columns will be saved to the custom field.</p>
<p>There is a sample of the CSV.</p>
<p><style>.gist table { margin-bottom: 0; }</style>
<div style="tab-size: 8" id="gist17649185" class="gist">
<div class="gist-file" translate="no" data-color-mode="light" data-light-theme="light">
<div class="gist-data">
<div class="js-gist-file-update-container js-task-list-container">
<div id="file-test-csv" class="file my-2">
<div itemprop="text"
      class="Box-body p-0 blob-wrapper data type-csv  "
      style="overflow: auto" tabindex="0" role="region"
      aria-label="test.csv content, created by miya0001 on 06:51PM on December 27, 2014."
    ></p>
<div class="blob-interaction-bar">
  <svg aria-hidden="true" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" version="1.1" width="16" data-view-component="true" class="octicon octicon-search">
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</svg><br />
  <input type="text" name="filter" class="form-control js-csv-filter-field blob-filter" autocapitalize="off"
         placeholder="Search this file…" aria-label="Search this file…">
</div>
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    <path d="M6.457 1.047c.659-1.234 2.427-1.234 3.086 0l6.082 11.378A1.75 1.75 0 0 1 14.082 15H1.918a1.75 1.75 0 0 1-1.543-2.575Zm1.763.707a.25.25 0 0 0-.44 0L1.698 13.132a.25.25 0 0 0 .22.368h12.164a.25.25 0 0 0 .22-.368Zm.53 3.996v2.5a.75.75 0 0 1-1.5 0v-2.5a.75.75 0 0 1 1.5 0ZM9 11a1 1 0 1 1-2 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 0Z"></path>
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</span></template></p>
<table class="js-csv-data csv-data js-file-line-container">
<thead>
<tr id="file-test-csv-LC1" class="js-file-line">
<td id="file-test-csv-L1" class="blob-num js-line-number" data-line-number="1"></td>
<th>ID</th>
<th>post_name</th>
<th>post_author</th>
<th>post_date</th>
<th>post_type</th>
<th>post_status</th>
<th>post_title</th>
<th>post_content</th>
<th>post_category</th>
<th>tags_input</th>
<th>custom_field</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr id="file-test-csv-LC2" class="js-file-line">
<td id="file-test-csv-L2" class="blob-num js-line-number" data-line-number="2"></td>
<td></td>
<td>Import-test</td>
<td>admin</td>
<td>2013/9/13 0:00</td>
<td>post</td>
<td>publish</td>
<td>CSV Import Test</td>
<td>This is a post for csv import.<br />
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.<br />
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.</td>
<td>fruits</td>
<td>apple,banana</td>
<td>this is custom field value.</td>
</tr>
<tr id="file-test-csv-LC3" class="js-file-line">
<td id="file-test-csv-L3" class="blob-num js-line-number" data-line-number="3"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>editor</td>
<td></td>
<td>post</td>
<td>publish</td>
<td>define author test</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr id="file-test-csv-LC4" class="js-file-line">
<td id="file-test-csv-L4" class="blob-num js-line-number" data-line-number="4"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>2</td>
<td></td>
<td>post</td>
<td></td>
<td>define author id test</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr id="file-test-csv-LC5" class="js-file-line">
<td id="file-test-csv-L5" class="blob-num js-line-number" data-line-number="5"></td>
<td>1</td>
<td>Hello-world-updated</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>post</td>
<td></td>
<td>Hello world! Updated!</td>
<td>Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Updated by RS CSV Importer!</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>
</p></div>
</p></div>
</div></div>
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        <a href="https://gist.github.com/miya0001/06f1a8e2bf1789c7ddee/raw/3c95de96302f556e58049e550f9a14b047048dbe/test.csv" style="float:right" class="Link--inTextBlock" rel="nofollow ugc">view raw</a><br />
        <a href="https://gist.github.com/miya0001/06f1a8e2bf1789c7ddee#file-test-csv" class="Link--inTextBlock" rel="nofollow ugc"><br />
          test.csv<br />
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      </div>
</p></div>
</div>
<h4>Action Hooks</h4>
<ul>
<li>acsv_after_insert_post</li>
</ul>
<h4>Filter Hooks</h4>
<ul>
<li>acsv_post_object_keys</li>
<li>acsv_post_defaults</li>
<li>acsv_import_upload_size_limit</li>
<li>acsv_pre_get_post_objects</li>
<li>acsv_after_get_post_objects</li>
<li>acsv_csv_format</li>
<li>acsv_csv_to_hash_array</li>
<li>acsv_get_user_by_field</li>
</ul>
<h4>WP-CLI</h4>
<p>Importing:</p>
<pre><code>$ 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 |
+------+-----------------------+------+---------+------------+---------------------+
</code></pre>
<p>History:</p>
<pre><code>$ 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 |
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+---------+---------+
</code></pre>
<p>Details of the history:</p>
<pre><code>$ 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 |
+------+-----------------------+------+---------+------------+---------------------+
</code></pre>


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