Title: Book collection database plugin???
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Book collection database plugin???

 *  [tsehov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsehov/)
 * (@tsehov)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/book-collection-database-plugin/)
 * Hello everyone,
 * I wonder if any of you have found, used or have tested any WordPress plugin which
   helps one to make a collection database with advanced query possibilities.
 * I have made a site to my friend. The site concentrates to quite large collection
   of printed articles and books about fish species, fish economy, biology, sport
   fishing, professional fishing etc. in Finland.
 * You can see the site here (the site is written only in Finnish language): [http://www.suomenkalakirjasto.fi](http://www.suomenkalakirjasto.fi)
   and the database that there is at the moment based on the Obvibase: [https://www.obvibase.com/p/Q4NPOj8zmYST#table/Q4NPOj8zmYST/*](https://www.obvibase.com/p/Q4NPOj8zmYST#table/Q4NPOj8zmYST/*)
 * The site’s owner would anyway like to have a book library like they do in OpenLibrary(
   [https://openlibrary.org](https://openlibrary.org)) with advanced search options.
 * The very first requirement is that it has to be possible to import data from 
   cvs -file (like in Obvibase). My friend has an excel file that consists over 
   22 thousand items at the moment, so no-one would seriously start to add the items
   one by one to database.
 * Earlier I found Web Librarian plugin ([https://wordpress.org/plugins/weblibrarian/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/weblibrarian/)).
   It is just what we want but there was certain problems when importing cvs -file.
   And also Web Librarian had some problems in handling book’s publishing time. 
   There was also some issues with ISBNs: the books there are in my friend’s collection
   starts from 18th century, and obviously there were no ISBNs that time.
 * I am very grateful with any help.

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 *  [victimized](https://wordpress.org/support/users/victimized/)
 * (@victimized)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/book-collection-database-plugin/#post-8803407)
 * Sorry that I’m of no help… But I want something similar to that. 😀
    Not too 
   fancy, just something simple, hope that someone has an answer.
 *  [wanderingonion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wanderingonion/)
 * (@wanderingonion)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/book-collection-database-plugin/#post-9252587)
 * Hi there –
 * I am setting up a site for a rock collection. Ideally, each rock would be searchable
   by several attributes. I am trying to find a plugin or instructions on how to
   import an existing MySQL database to a WordPress site that has already been setup
   OR I can just build from scratch again. Any suggestions?

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/book-collection-database-plugin/#post-9252587)
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