Creating posts from tabular data

  • I’d like to be able to create a blog/site from an existing database that can be exported in CSV or other flat-file formats and imported into WP. I would like to be able to have each record correspond to one post (which, of course, I can edit, and to which others can comment or rate).

    Is there a plugin, or some obvious thing I’m missing about WordPress, that allows me to do this?

    I’ll give you an example. Let’s say I had a database of roses that one could grow in the US. Is there a way that I can create posts from information that includes rose color, growing season, growing region, fragrance, hybrid inheritance, description, rating of ease of care, rating of quality, etc? Is there some plugin or process that would allow me to import that database so that the rose name was the title of the post, and all the information appeared in the template, to which readers could comment?

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  • One way is to make a few test posts in WordPress and export them. Then convert your database of roses into a file with the same format, and import it.

    The Codex lists various possible import formats, but it is not clear whether the CSV Import Plugin mentioned there still works well (or ever did).

    Thread Starter manskybook

    (@manskybook)

    Thanks. I will try that. I have at least that number of fields, and even a partial import would be useful.

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