arippberger

Original Purpose
The original purpose for this plugin was to interface a WooCommerce installation with a distribution center’s order processing.
<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>
What You’ll Need To Customize
<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>
Examples
<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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The WordPress Importer will import the following content from a WordPress export file:
<ul>
<li>Posts, pages and other custom post types</li>
<li>Comments and comment meta</li>
<li>Custom fields and post meta</li>
<li>Categories, tags and terms from custom taxonomies and term meta</li>
<li>Authors</li>
</ul>
For further information and instructions please see the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/article/importing-content/#wordpress" rel="ugc">documention on Importing Content</a>.
<h3>Filters</h3>
The importer has a couple of filters to allow you to completely enable/block certain features:
<ul>
<li><code>import_allow_create_users</code>: return false if you only want to allow mapping to existing users</li>
<li><code>import_allow_fetch_attachments</code>: return false if you do not wish to allow importing and downloading of attachments</li>
<li><code>import_attachment_size_limit</code>: return an integer value for the maximum file size in bytes to save (default is 0, which is unlimited)</li>
</ul>
There are also a few actions available to hook into:
<ul>
<li><code>import_start</code>: occurs after the export file has been uploaded and author import settings have been chosen</li>
<li><code>import_end</code>: called after the last output from the importer</li>
</ul>

WordPress Importer


Good for the main use cases: restore from backup, and moving posts between blogs. Unfortunately the image import doesn't seem to work (WordPress 6.3 with plugin 0.8.1), which makes it a pain to clean up image-heavy posts.



One thing I'd like to do with this that I can't is to import another copy of a cross-post and merge the comment threads. As it is, the best I can do is import the duplicate copy and then use another plugin (or dig into the database) to move the comments around.


Works well for moving posts between blogs.

Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.

XML Shipping Importer for WooCommerce vs WordPress Importer