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<p>Original Purpose</p>
<p>The original purpose for this plugin was to interface a WooCommerce installation with a distribution center’s order processing.</p>
<ul>
<li>Distribution / fulfillment center had an FTP server set up </li>
<li>Distribution / fulfillment center requested an XML file of orders be uploaded to their FTP server (WooCommerce Customer/Order XML Export Suite was used for this process – http://www.woothemes.com/products/customerorder-xml-export-suite/ )</li>
<li>Distribution / fulfillment center would upload an XML file of completed orders to their FTP server. This file included 1) WooCommerce Order Number 2) Tracking number 3) Shipping Carrier Name</li>
<li>This plugin was designed to process the completed orders:</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Add tracking number and carrier information to order as meta data</li>
<li>Change order status to completed</li>
<li>Capture card information (credit card info authorized at time of order, captured when order has shipped)</li>
</ol>
<p>What You’ll Need To Customize</p>
<ul>
<li>FTP information- the plugin has a settings page for these fields – could use improved security</li>
<li>Depending on the format of the XML file you’d like to import, you may need to customize the code that handles the import. The plugin currently uses the SimpleXML class to import the XML file to an object.</li>
<li>The current credit card capture will need to be customized depending on your needs and your payment gateway (currently set up to work with Intuit’s payment gateway)</li>
</ul>
<p>Examples</p>
<ul>
<li>Example XML file included in repo as example.xml – this is the file that your distribution center would place on their FTP server</li>
</ul>


XML Shipping Importer for WooCommerce

This WordPress plugin was designed to fulfill a specific purpose, but may be useful to others. Major code modifications may be required to fit the plu …

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Sergey Biryukov

Samuel Wood (Otto)

Ryan McCue

Workshopshed

<p>The Blogger Importer imports your blog data from a Google Blogger site into a WordPress.org installation.</p>
<h4>Items imported</h4>
<ul>
<li>Categories</li>
<li>Posts (published, scheduled and draft)</li>
<li>Comments (not spam)</li>
<li>Images</li>
</ul>
<h4>Items not imported</h4>
<ul>
<li>Pages</li>
<li>Widgets/Widget Data</li>
<li>Templates/Theme</li>
<li>Comment and author Avatars</li>
</ul>
<h3>Reference</h3>
<ul>
<li>https://www.simplepie.org/</li>
</ul>
<p>The following were referenced for implementing the images and links</p>
<ul>
<li>https://wordpress.org/plugins/remote-images-grabber/</li>
<li>http://notions.okuda.ca/wordpress-plugins/blogger-image-import/</li>
<li>https://wordpress.org/plugins/cache-images/</li>
<li>https://wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-importer/</li>
<li>https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14525</li>
<li>https://wpengineer.com/1735/easier-better-solutions-to-get-pictures-on-your-posts/</li>
<li>https://web.archive.org/web/20211121020918/http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/wordpress-plugin-update-urls/</li>
<li>http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions//media-sideload-image-file-name (not working)</li>
<li>https://code.tutsplus.com/a-guide-to-the-wordpress-http-api-the-basics–wp-25125t</li>
</ul>
<h3>Known Issues</h3>
<ul>
<li>Some users have reported that their IFrames are stripped out of the post content.</li>
<li>Requests for better performance of larger transfers and tranfers of images</li>
<li>Review of behavior when it re-imports, partiularly are the counts correct</li>
<li>Review using get_posts or get_comments with the appropriate parameters to get the counts and exists instead of using SQL</li>
<li>Incorrect notice, PHP Notice: The data could not be converted to UTF-8. You MUST have either the iconv or mbstring extension installed. This occurs even when Iconv is installed, could be related to Blogger reporting 0 comments</li>
<li>When the importer is running it’s not possible to stop it using the stop button</li>
<li>Blogger’s count of comments include those not linked to a post e.g. the post has been deleted.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Filters and Actions</h3>
<p>These actions and filters have been added so that you can extend the functionality of the importer without needing to modify the code.</p>
<p>Action – import_start – This is run when the import starts processing the records for a new blog</p>
<p>Action – import_done – This is run when the import finishes processing the records for a blog.</p>
<p>Filter – blogger_importer_congrats – Passes the list of options shown to the user when the blog is complete, options can be added or removed.</p>


Blogger Importer

Running the Blogger Importer in PHP 7 throws the following warning:

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; Blogger_Importer has a deprecated constructor in /xxxxxx/wp-content/plugins/blogger-importer/blogger-importer.php on line 44

Another user reported this months ago, but it's not fixed yet.

Deprecated constructor warning

Imports posts, images, comments, and categories (blogger tags) from a Blogger blog then migrates authors to WordPress users.

XML Shipping Importer for WooCommerce vs Blogger Importer