Pre-purchase question

  • Resolved annetteadler

    (@annetteadler)


    9 months, 1 week ago

    Hello,

    I’m very new at this. Our admin asked us to try the free version before upgrading to Pro. Is there documentation on how to upload a .csv to populate the encyclopedia? If I have to enter our 200 entries by hand to test out the functionality, I’m not going to be able to convince my boss. I know there has to be a way, I just can’t find instructions anywhere. If you could point me in that direction I would be very grateful.

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  • Plugin Author Dennis

    (@dhoppe)

    You could try a CSV importer plugin from the repository. The relevant fields are the title (the word or term you want to import) and the content (the description for the term). Alternatively you need to hire someone who imports the CSV file for you. Maybe this is easy peasy for your Admin?

    Thread Starter annetteadler

    (@annetteadler)

    I can check with my admin, he works with WordPress a lot, but ultimately I have to be able to administer this, so if it’s so complicated that I need to hire someone to update or populate it, it might not be the plug in for us. I’ll go check out the plug in repository for CSV importers.

    Plugin Author Dennis

    (@dhoppe)

    If you want to update it from your CSV file later you would need a unique primary key in the data set to associate the entries in the WordPress database with the CSV records. I am pretty sure you will not find an out-of-the-box solution for this. ???♂?

    Thread Starter annetteadler

    (@annetteadler)

    Thanks.

    Just so I understand this, if I have an encyclopedia with 200+ entries that all need to be updated over the course of a year (it is the Academic Calendar for a university), the expectation is that I would update all of them by hand every time? I like the idea of the encyclopedia, but that seems like a lot of work to maintain. Am I just misunderstanding this?

    Plugin Author Dennis

    (@dhoppe)

    This is what WordPress was made for: Manage Content. If you want to manage your content (e.g. an academic calendar) outside of WordPress (e.g. in Excel) you need a workflow to sync your external content with the entries in your WordPress dashboard.

    Just out of curiosity: Why do you want to use an Encyclopedia as Calendar?

    Thread Starter annetteadler

    (@annetteadler)

    The Academic Calendar is all the policies and procedures for the school, including links to forms and course descriptions – it isn’t actually a “calendar” with dates. That’s just what this kind of document is called in Canada. I should have been more clear ??

    We have it in a document now, but it’s awkward to search and hard to send students a link to the section they need when they have a question, so we though having it as a searchable glossary or encyclopedia on our WordPress site might be easier for them to us, and for us to direct them too.

    Thread Starter annetteadler

    (@annetteadler)

    I could also just create it in HTML, but I was hoping for something a bit easier that could also have in index and automatic cross-linking so I wouldn’t have to do all of that

    Plugin Author Dennis

    (@dhoppe)

    I would recommend to import it once and then maintain all the entries in WordPress only.

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