Batch Category Add

  • Does anyone know of a way to add multiple categories at once instead of one at a time? (maybe by import or a plugin)

    I created a parent category and now I want to create about 100 categories under that.

    Thanks!

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  • Could try this:

    <?php
//import categories from csv
//sample data for $import_file category,category parent,slug,description
//Parent categories must be in file before child categories
//
//"county1",""
//"county2",""
//"city1","county1"
//"city2","county2"
//"city3","county1"
//"county3",""
//"County Cork","","county cork","county cork descripiton of this cat"
//"County Morefields","","","This is description of county morefields"

require_once(ABSPATH . "wp-admin/includes/admin.php");
$import_file = TEMPLATEPATH . '/cat.txt';
$import = array();
$fh = fopen($import_file,'r');
while($t = fgetcsv($fh)) {
    $import[] = $t;
}

foreach ($import as $importcat) {
  $numfields=count($importcat);
  $cat_ID = get_cat_ID($importcat[0]);
  $cat_name = $importcat[0];
  $category_parent = get_cat_ID($importcat[1]);

  if ($numfields > 2)
    $category_nicename = sanitize_title($importcat[2]);

  if ($numfields > 3)
    $category_description = $importcat[3];

  $args = compact('cat_ID', 'cat_name', 'category_description', 'category_nicename', 'category_parent');
  wp_insert_category($args);
}
?>

    Or this:
    https://wpsecurity.net/http//wpsecurity.net/download/bulk-category-importer.zip

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