My client is using WordPress as CMS but want's to deliver their posts (in their case property's) trough a XML feed.
Is it possible to get the info from that XML feed and import it to WordPress as posts?
This is what my feed looks like: http://vrds.nl/test.xml
Hoping for help!
There are quite a few plugins that do this. Perhaps one of them fits what you want to do.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content
My company made a plugin that can do exactly this.
It is called WP All Import - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-all-import/ - it can import XML in any format, download images (something you'll probably need if you are importing properties), and works with any theme.
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I have been trying to import or migrate the Codeigniter database into wordpress. Is that possible to do by any means? I have searched for the solution for it at many places but was unable to find a relevant solution to it.
The real problem is that I have already got a website created in CodeIgniter but now I am making a new site for the same using Wordpress. I need to import all the data and posts contained in the older site into the new one. Maybe database migration can be a easier idea. How will be doing so??
Codeigniter is a development framework for building applications. WordPress is a system that's already built. I think you could build a large application like WordPress with Codeigniter. But it would then rely on Codeigniter's libraries and framework, so to make that happen I think you would have to rebuild WordPress from scratch. Unless Codeigniter can be used as more of a PHP editing framework as well?
Maybe a Codeigniter guru will weigh in.
Source https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codeigniter-wordpress
The main issue with this is that your CI database is not structured the same as wordpress database.
There are some tools that help you import databases in wordpress like this plugins:
WP Ultimate CSV Importer Plugin
Really Simple CSV Importer
CSV Importer
but you will have to provide them the CSV file, that you'll have to export from your CI website. I don't think the import process is very complicated but it's sure easier if you spend some time understanding wordpress databse structure, for that a great resource is the wordpress code and the Database Description page.
The complexity of the CSV file is determined by the objects that you have to import in WordPress here is a check list that its good to have when you start building a CSV file:
1) Are you importing custom post types or just blog entires?
2) Do you have extra info on your import objects that have to be imported as custom fields?
3) Do you have users that you need to import? if you do, what roles do you need to have? do you require custom roles (this makes things very complicated)
4) Do you objects have images attached to them? if they do you'll have to make sure that the import plugin is able to import images!
5) Do you have categories and tags? do they have extra info besides wordpress default info?
When I have to import data to WordPress I try to keep it as simple as possible, I'm trying to import only blog posts and their images if possible depending on the complexity of the initial website I might import categories and tags too but I might split the process before adding this and process them after I have the posts in my wordpress site (this is because I'm more comfortable working with wordpress database and functions then with 3rd party CSV generated files - it might not be your case since you have full access to the initial CI website)
In the end have a look at the plugins I've linked or search yourself some import plugins and check the CSV files they need and try to make the CI website generate a CSV file that is similar with the ones in the examples.
If you have experience with the WordPress databse structure then you can also create a script that loads your data from one database to the other one (I recommend this approach for developers that have experience with both the old websites and WordPress at code/database structure level.
if you can share your databse scheme some extra info might be given.
Export posts from CI database in CSV/XML format or SQL and then change it to CSV accordingly. after that, use WP all import plugin and select the columns correctly. Easy as that..
I want to import some contents into vBulletin Forums System. I am using vBulletin 5. I don't have experience working with vBulettin, I want to export posts and contents to something like csv and import them to VB Forum someway.
Any help or suggestion?
Thanks in advance.
The exact process depends on what type of forum you are importing from. Importing to vBulletin from phpBB might differ from IPB or Xenforo.
I would start by looking at vBulletin's import documentation using ImpEx.
I am new to Wordpress, tried couple of plugins to import xml file. This file is quite huge. I am unable to import it. Any tutorial or suggestions?
Edit : format of the XML file is below
<articles>
<article id="1240xxxx" timestamp="April 27, 2009, 8:26 am" published="1">
<title>Theme Parks in Tenerife</title>
<pageName>theme-parks-in-tenerife-408</pageName>
<imageFile>blogthemeparkstenerife.jpg</imageFile>
<imageAlt>Theme Parks in Tenerife</imageAlt>
<content>
<p>Anyone taking a
holiday in Tenerife.
</p>
</content>
<summary>Theme Parks in Tenerife offer an alternative to the traditional beach holiday, providing entertainment for families.</summary>
<tags>
<tag>tenerife</tag>
<tag>holidays</tag>
<tag>parks</tag>
<tag>beaches</tag>
<tag>island</tag>
</tags>
</article>
So the markup is incompatible with the Wordpress import function. That leaves two other options:
Transform the XML into wordpress-compatible XML using XSLT.
Import the XML into the MySQL database. This might require transforming XML to SQL with XSLT.
Both require some understanding of wordpress internals. In the first case you will need to learn about the wordpress export markup, in the second case you will need to learn about the database scheme of wordpress posts (and tags and categories). In both cases you need to learn some XSLT, but that's a real valuable tool anyway.
A 'last resort' option would be something along the lines of parsing the XML and scripting the submission of the articles. The viability of this option depends on the ways you can 'automate' article submission in Wordpress. I know there's a way to submit articles through email, but I don't know how well that supports tags and categories.
These might not be the most pretty options, and you might be screwed anyway. But this is the least I could do.
You can parse the XML into a different format using a scripting language. I would use JQuery for familiarity [a good guide is here: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/use-jquery-to-retrieve-data-from-an-xml-file/]
You could use that method to then create a HTML document which this import plugin could use: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/import-html-pages/
Or you could use one of the CSV importers and render the XML into a useful format for that.
If it is massive your browser/script might struggle but it should be fine.
Use the WP All Import plugin for WordPress.
WP All Import v3 was just released and it has support for huge files (100Mb and up).
Free version: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-all-import/ (good enough unless you need to import to Custom Post Types or download images)
Paid version: http://www.wpallimport.com/
Ok guys, so i am 50% the way through creating a "content manager" plugin for wordpress (mainly for the internal benefit of the company i work for) that can create custom post types, taonamies and meta boes with a prety interface.
At the moment im using XML files created through php to parse and hold the data relating to "post types", "Taxonamies" and "metaboxes". The main reason i began down the xml road was so i could allow users to export to an xml file and import on another wordpress install. simple.
Although no im not sure? is it too server heavy to have the plugin recursing through directorys every each time to init the post types, taxonamies and meta boxes? would i be better served to crete 3 db tables and when i need to import or export simple do the XML from there?
would love to hear our opions?!
I would go with the database-solution. When the XML-File grows size, the parsing will take more and more time, as the whole file is read every time.
In a Database, you can select only the values you need and don't need to parse the whole document every time.
Also, realizing a XML import/export from the values stored in the database shouldn't be that much of a problem.
But if you have very tiny XML-files (like less then 100 chars) and they don't grow much, you'll have to decide if it's worth the time to change to a database.
I'm moving a site over that is currently setup in wordpress. I've not got a great knowledge on how WP works but the database all makes sense to me. I've built a custom blogging engine for the new site but I need to transfer all the old posts into the new site.
Before I go writing a script to loop through each posts then grab the image url etc and then match that up to the columns in my own database is there anything that exists already? I can't imagine I'm the first to do this!
Also - am I right in thinking that the image(s) for the post are _wp_attached_file with the corresponding post_id in the wp_postmeta table?
I've tagged this with php for Wordpress but happy for scripts in Python or RoR too if they exist.
Thanks
Is the standard wordpress export not detailed enough? I find this a very handy tool: http://en.support.wordpress.com/export
There is a plugin that imports your posts into a CSV file. It would be simpler to write a parser for that, I think - instead of writing a script to query the WP DB