Jason Judge

<p>This WordPress plugin imports posts from CSV (Comma Separated Value) files into your<br />
WordPress blog. It can prove extremely useful when you want to import a bunch<br />
of posts from an Excel document or the like – simply export your document into<br />
a CSV file and the plugin will take care of the rest.</p>
<p>https://wordpress.org/plugins/csv-importer-improved/</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Imports post title, body, excerpt, tags, date, categories etc.</li>
<li>Supports custom fields, custom taxonomies and comments</li>
<li>Deals with Word-style quotes and other non-standard characters using<br />
WordPress’ built-in mechanism (same one that normalizes your input when you<br />
write your posts)</li>
<li>Columns in the CSV file can be in any order, provided that they have correct<br />
headings</li>
<li>Multi-language support</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin is forked from https://wordpress.org/plugins/csv-importer/ by dvkob<br />
in order to keep up with changes to the core WordPress.</p>
<p>This importer writes directly to the database. It does not go through the internal<br />
WordPress objects for creating posts etc. That may be an advantage to you (it will<br />
be faster for large imports) but do be aware of any data integrity issues that may arrise.</p>
<p>Only UTF-8 encoding is supported, both with and without Byte Order Marks (BOM).</p>
<p>The development repository for this plugin can be found here:</p>
<p>https://github.com/academe/csv-importer-improved</p>
<p>Please feel free to raise issues there, and submit pull requests, as well as through<br />
the normal WordPress channels.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Click on the CSV Importer link on your WordPress admin page, choose the<br />
file you would like to import and click Import. The <code>examples</code> directory<br />
inside the plugin’s directory contains several files that demonstrate<br />
how to use the plugin. The best way to get started is to import one of<br />
these files and look at the results.</p>
<p>CSV is a tabular format that consists of rows and columns. Each row in<br />
a CSV file represents a post; each column identifies a piece of information<br />
that comprises a post.</p>
<p>You can create new posts, or update existing posts by supplying the csv_post_id<br />
field pointing to an existing post. When updating, all field names you provide<br />
in the CSV file will be updated – even if blank – but fields you don’t list at<br />
the head of the CSV file will be left intact.</p>
<h4>Basic post information</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>csv_post_id</code> – optional, used to update an existing post.</li>
<li><code>csv_post_title</code> – title of the post</li>
<li><code>csv_post_post</code> – body of the post</li>
<li><code>csv_post_type</code> – <code>post</code>, <code>page</code> or a custom post type.<br />
From 0.3.2, <code>csv_post_type</code> column supports custom post types.<br />
Refer to the WordPress<br />
<a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Post_Types" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation on custom post types</a> for more info<br />
on how to set up custom post types.</li>
<li><code>csv_post_excerpt</code> – post excerpt</li>
<li><code>csv_post_categories</code> – a comma separated list of category names or ids.<br />
The list must be enclosed in quotes, e.g. “EC > UK, Island”.<br />
If a chain of subcategories does not exist, e.g. <code>Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia</code><br />
then they will all be created and the post assigned to the end of the chain.<br />
The parent category can also be defined using its id, e.g.<br />
    42 > Primates > Callitrichidae, where <code>42</code> is an<br />
existing category id.</li>
<li><code>csv_post_tags</code> – a “quoted” comma separated list of tags.</li>
<li><code>csv_post_date</code> – most standard formats are supported.<br />
For example, <code>now</code>, <code>11/16/2009 0:00</code>, <code>1999-12-31 23:55:00</code>, <code>+1 week</code>,<br />
    next Thursday, <code>last year</code> are all valid. For technical<br />
details, consult PHP’s <code>strtotime()</code> function <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Custom fields</h4>
<p>Any column that doesn’t start with <code>csv_</code> is considered to be a custom field<br />
name. The data in that column will be imported as the custom fields value.</p>
<p>All custom fields must be unique. Multiple fields with the same name will be<br />
updated to the same value if updating an existing post.<br />
Prior to version 0.6.0 loading the same field name multiple times to an existing<br />
post would create multiple custom fields.</p>
<h4>General remarks</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress pages <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages" rel="nofollow ugc">don’t have categories or tags</a>.</li>
<li>Most columns are optional. Either <code>csv_post_title</code>, <code>csv_post_post</code> or<br />
    csv_post_excerpt are sufficient to create a post. If all of these<br />
columns are empty in a row, the plugin will skip that row.</li>
<li>The plugin will attempt to reuse existing categories or tags; if an<br />
existing category or tag cannot be found, the plugin will create it.</li>
<li>To specify a category that has a greater than sign (>) in the name, use<br />
the HTML entity <code>&gt;</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>Advanced usage</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>csv_post_author</code> – numeric user id or login name. If not specified or<br />
user does not exist, the plugin will assign the posts to the user<br />
performing the import.</li>
<li><code>csv_post_slug</code> – post slug used in permalinks.</li>
<li><code>csv_post_parent</code> – post parent id.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Custom taxonomies</h3>
<p><strong>New in version 0.3.0</strong></p>
<p>Once custom taxonomies are set up in your theme’s functions.php file or<br />
by using a 3rd party plugin, <code>csv_ctax_(taxonomy name)</code> columns can be<br />
used to assign imported data to the taxonomies.</p>
<p><strong>Non-hierarchical taxonomies</strong></p>
<p>The syntax for non-hierarchical taxonomies is straightforward and is essentially<br />
the same as the <code>csv_post_tags</code> syntax.</p>
<p><strong>Hierarchical taxonomies</strong></p>
<p>The syntax for hierarchical taxonomies is more complicated. Each hierarchical<br />
taxonomy field is a tiny two-column CSV file, where <em>the order of columns<br />
matters</em>. The first column contains the name of the parent term and the second<br />
column contains the name of the child term. Top level terms have to be preceded<br />
either by an empty string or a 0 (zero).</p>
<p>Sample <code>examples/custom-taxonomies.csv</code> file included with the plugin<br />
illustrates custom taxonomy support. To see how it works, make sure to set up<br />
custom taxonomies from <code>functions.inc.php</code>.</p>
<p>Make sure that the quotation marks used as text delimiters in <code>csv_ctax_</code><br />
columns are regular ASCII double quotes, not typographical quotes like “<br />
(U+201C) and ” (U+201D).</p>
<h3>Comments</h3>
<p><strong>New in version 0.3.1</strong></p>
<p>An example file with comments is included in the <code>examples</code> directory.<br />
In short, comments can be imported along with posts by specifying columns<br />
such as <code>csv_comment_*_author</code>, <code>csv_comment_*_content</code> etc, where * is<br />
a comment ID number. This ID doesn’t go into WordPress. It is only there<br />
to have the connection information in the CSV file.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>This plugin uses <a href="http://code.google.com/p/php-csv-parser/" rel="nofollow ugc">php-csv-parser</a> by Kazuyoshi Tlacaelel.<br />
It was inspired by JayBlogger’s <a href="http://www.jayblogger.com/the-birth-of-my-first-plugin-import-csv/" rel="nofollow ugc">CSV Import</a> plugin.</p>
<p>Contributors:</p>
<ul>
<li>Kevin Hagerty (post_author support)</li>
<li>Edir Pedro (root category option and tableless HTML markup)</li>
<li>Frank Loeffler (comments support)</li>
<li>Micah Gates (subcategory syntax)</li>
<li>David Hollander (deprecation warnings, linebreak handling)</li>
</ul>


CSV Importer Improved

Import posts from CSV files into WordPress.

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WP All Import

<p>This plugin imports posts from CSV (Comma Separated Value) files into your WordPress blog. It can prove extremely useful when you want to import a bunch of posts from an Excel document or the like – simply export your document into a CSV file and the plugin will take care of the rest.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Imports post title, body, excerpt, tags, date, categories etc.</li>
<li>Supports custom fields, custom taxonomies and comments</li>
<li>Deals with Word-style quotes and other non-standard characters using WordPress’ built-in mechanism (same one that normalizes your input when you write your posts)</li>
<li>Columns in the CSV file can be in any order, provided that they have correct headings</li>
<li>Multi-language support</li>
</ul>
<h4>Drag & Drop to Import any CSV/Excel/XML with WP All Import Pro</h4>
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<p><strong>WP All Import Pro</strong> can import custom fields, taxonomies, WooCommerce, images and galleries, users, ACF, and everything else:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Drag & Drop to Import Any File:</strong> Give any CSV or XML to WP All Import, then drag and drop to map data from your file into WordPress.</li>
<li><strong>Any Custom Post Type, Every Data Type:</strong> Import data to custom post types, with support for WooCommerce, ACF, custom fields, taxonomies, and everything else.</li>
<li><strong>Import Images & Galleries:</strong> Images can be uploaded, downloaded, or matched to media already in WordPress. Full support for WooCommerce product images and variation galleries.</li>
<li><strong>Import Files from URL:</strong> Download and import files from external websites, even if they are password protected. URL imports are can be re-run to add, edit, and delete posts.</li>
<li><strong>Scheduled Imports:</strong> WP All Import Pro can check periodically check a file for updates and then add, update, or delete to the imported posts accordingly.</li>
<li><strong>Developer Friendly:</strong> Pass data through custom PHP functions. For example, use something like [my_function( {user_email[1]} )] in your template, to pass the value of {user_email[1]} to my_function and display whatever it returns.</li>
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</ul>
<p>Check out <a href="https://www.wpallimport.com/?utm_source=import-plugin-free&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=upgrade-to-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">WP All Import</a> today.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="https://www.wpallimport.com/import-wordpress-csv-xml-excel/?utm_source=import-plugin-free&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=upgrade-to-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Import any CSV/Excel/XML with WP All Import Pro</a>.</strong></li>
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<li>How to export WordPress to CSV? Drag & drop to <a href="http://www.wpallimport.com/export-wordpress/?utm_source=import-plugin-free&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=upgrade-to-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">export any custom post type from WordPress</a> (and everything else) to a custom CSV, Excel, or XML with WP All Export Pro.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Click on the CSV Importer link on your WordPress admin page, choose the file you would like to import and click Import. The <code>examples</code> directory inside the plugin’s directory contains several files that demonstrate how to use the plugin. The best way to get started is to import one of these files and look at the results.</p>
<p>CSV is a tabular format that consists of rows and columns. Each row in a CSV file represents a post; each column identifies a piece of information that comprises a post.</p>
<h4>Basic post information</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>csv_post_title</code> – title of the post</li>
<li><code>csv_post_post</code> – body of the post</li>
<li><code>csv_post_type</code> – <code>post</code>, <code>page</code> or a custom post type.<br />
<strong>New in version 0.3.2</strong><br />
In prior versions, importing rows as pages could be specified on a per-file basis using the plugins UI. In 0.3.2, <code>csv_post_type</code> column was added to support custom post types as well.<br />
Refer to the WordPress <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Post_Types" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation on custom post types</a> for more info on how to set up custom post types.</li>
<li><code>csv_post_excerpt</code> – post excerpt</li>
<li><code>csv_post_categories</code> – a comma separated list of category names or ids.<br />
<strong>New in version 0.3.5</strong><br />
It’s also possible to assign posts to non-existing subcategories, using > to denote category relationships, e.g. <code>Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia</code>. If any of the categories in the chain does not exist, the plugin will automatically create it. It’s also possible to specify the parent category using an id, as in <code>42 > Primates > Callitrichidae</code>, where <code>42</code> is an existing category id.</li>
<li><code>csv_post_tags</code> – a comma separated list of tags.</li>
<li><code>csv_post_date</code> – about any English textual description of a date and time.<br />
For example, <code>now</code>, <code>11/16/2009 0:00</code>, <code>1999-12-31 23:55:00</code>, <code>+1 week</code>, <code>next Thursday</code>, <code>last year</code> are all valid descriptions. For technical details, consult PHP’s <code>strtotime()</code> function <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Custom fields</h4>
<p>Any column that doesn’t start with <code>csv_</code> is considered to be a custom field name. The data in that column will be imported as the custom fields value.</p>
<h4>General remarks</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress pages <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages" rel="nofollow ugc">don’t have categories or tags</a>.</li>
<li>Most columns are optional. Either <code>csv_post_title</code>, <code>csv_post_post</code> or <code>csv_post_excerpt</code> are sufficient to create a post. If all of these columns are empty in a row, the plugin will skip that row.</li>
<li>The plugin will attempt to reuse existing categories or tags; if an existing category or tag cannot be found, the plugin will create it.</li>
<li>To specify a category that has a greater than sign (>) in the name, use the HTML entity <code>&gt;</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>Advanced usage</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>csv_post_author</code> – numeric user id or login name. If not specified or user does not exist, the plugin will assign the posts to the user performing the import.</li>
<li><code>csv_post_slug</code> – post slug used in permalinks.</li>
<li><code>csv_post_parent</code> – post parent id.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Custom taxonomies</h3>
<p><strong>New in version 0.3.0</strong></p>
<p>Once custom taxonomies are set up in your theme’s functions.php file or by using a 3rd party plugin, <code>csv_ctax_(taxonomy name)</code> columns can be used to assign imported data to the taxonomies.</p>
<p><strong>Non-hierarchical taxonomies</strong></p>
<p>The syntax for non-hierarchical taxonomies is straightforward and is essentially the same as the <code>csv_post_tags</code> syntax.</p>
<p><strong>Hierarchical taxonomies</strong></p>
<p>The syntax for hierarchical taxonomies is more complicated. Each hierarchical taxonomy field is a tiny two-column CSV file, where <em>the order of columns matters</em>. The first column contains the name of the parent term and the second column contains the name of the child term. Top level terms have to be preceded either by an empty string or a 0 (zero).</p>
<p>Sample <code>examples/custom-taxonomies.csv</code> file included with the plugin illustrates custom taxonomy support. To see how it works, make sure to set up custom taxonomies from <code>functions.inc.php</code>.</p>
<p>Make sure that the quotation marks used as text delimiters in <code>csv_ctax_</code> columns are regular ASCII double quotes, not typographical quotes like “ (U+201C) and ” (U+201D).</p>
<h3>Comments</h3>
<p><strong>New in version 0.3.1</strong></p>
<p>An example file with comments is included in the <code>examples</code> directory. In short, comments can be imported along with posts by specifying columns such as <code>csv_comment_*_author</code>, <code>csv_comment_*_content</code> etc, where * is a comment ID number. This ID doesn’t go into WordPress. It is only there to have the connection information in the CSV file.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>This plugin uses <a href="http://code.google.com/p/php-csv-parser/" rel="nofollow ugc">php-csv-parser</a> by Kazuyoshi Tlacaelel. It was inspired by JayBlogger’s <a href="http://www.jayblogger.com/the-birth-of-my-first-plugin-import-csv/" rel="nofollow ugc">CSV Import</a> plugin.</p>
<p>Contributors:</p>
<ul>
<li>Denis Kobozev (original author)</li>
<li>Kevin Hagerty (post_author support)</li>
<li>Edir Pedro (root category option and tableless HTML markup)</li>
<li>Frank Loeffler (comments support)</li>
<li>Micah Gates (subcategory syntax)</li>
<li>David Hollander (deprecation warnings, linebreak handling)</li>
</ul>


CSV Importer

Since I often have to create custom posts in batches, this saves me a lot of time.
Just be aware that csv_post_title, csv_post_excerpt and csv_post_post must be present in the input file, even if they are empty.



CSV Importer Improved vs CSV Importer