[Plugin: CSV Importer] Custom tags how to write

vagabond452: If your theme uses custom fields named styles and gemstones to store its tags, you can try using styles and gemstones as your column names (without the csv_post_tags part).

what is the difference between custom_field_1 and csv_ctax_nameofcustometaxhere ?

ipatrona: The Codex will probably explain it better than I can: Custom fields, Custom taxonomies.

dvkob, I would like to talk to you about modifying the plugin to accept larger file uploads and longer upload times. I have already modified my php.ini file and verified with my server host that it is acceptable, however, I still get timeouts after a minute or so of uploading. Can you contact me please. This plugin is awesome, however, I need to upload a huge amount of data and am having a hard time finding a max upload time/size in your code (still learning php, what can i say?..lol)

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Rotten Elf: I’ll reply here, in the forums, just because other people might find this information useful. If your PHP settings are correct, you shouldn’t get timeouts after a minute or so. There are other settings aside from max_execution_time that can produce timeouts; post_max_size and upload_max_size, for example. You might have to increase the PHP memory limit if you’re importing such a massive amount of data. I suggest you explain your problem to your server host and work with them to resolve the problem.

This is a problem outside of the plugin’s domain, and, to a certain degree, outside of WordPress’s domain. The environment your WordPress installation runs in determines what is “too much data”.

@dvkob:
Thanks for all your help. I’m going to give you the lines that my host (GoDaddY) has specified that I create in my php5.ini file (which did not work):

max_execution_time = 600
upload_max_filesize 32M

These are all they have suggested. If these are not correct, then obviously I cannot rely on them to give me better assistance…LOL. That being said; “upload_max_filesize” appears to be what you called “upload_max_size”. Am I correct in assuming this? If so, that is an easy fix. As well, each post is very, very small (minues the thumbnail images that are called within the post custom fields). Since they are not within the post themselves, and only called by html command, am I correct in thinking that the image size isn’t relevant to the “max_post_size” specification to which you made reference?

Please advise. And thanks in advance for all of your help.

Rotten Elf: Yes, the correct name of that option is upload_max_filesize. The image size is not relevant.

You never mentioned the actual size of your file. Is it under 32 megabytes? What’s the value of the memory_limit option in your php.ini file? Obviously the more the better, but it has to be at least your file size + 32M/64M for WordPress.

Apache’s error log might give you a clue on what actually you need to increase.

There are also “Max upload file size” and “Blog upload space” settings in WordPress. You might want to check them, too.

Rotten Elf: BTW, you shouldn’t have hijacked this thread. Your problem has nothing to do with custom tags.

dvkob….just a heads up…I was having problems starting new threads back then with my www.remarpro.com profile. It’s since been fixed, but I needed some help, I didn’t mean to hijack a thread.