Filtering posts during Import

Hi Maxell,

I’ve always found it valuable for developers to see how their software is used in real-world scenarios, so I wanted to share our use case.

We manage a homeowners association website composed of three main content types:

• Pages (~250)
• Posts (~1,400 announcements over the past 10 years)
• Rules and Regulations (6 PDF documents)

Our objective is to import these into the knowledge base for residents, with some filtering:

• Pages: Only those accessible to residents should be included (excluding Property Manager only content).
• Posts: Since announcements are often repetitive, we limit the import to the past year to reduce duplication.
• Rules and Regulations: These are handled separately via the PDF sitemap import.

For Pages and Posts, I’m using the “WordPress Content” importer. To restrict the imported posts, I implemented the mxchat_before_process_post hook with a custom snippet. See below:

add_filter(‘mxchat_before_process_post’, function($post, $bot_id) {

// For pages only: skip if "gestion" is in the URL
if ($post->post_type === 'page') {
    $permalink = get_permalink($post->ID);
    if ($permalink && stripos($permalink, 'gestion') !== false) {
        return false;
    }
}

// For posts only: skip if older than 1 year
if ($post->post_type === 'post') {
    if (strtotime($post->post_date) < strtotime('-1 year')) {
        return false;
    }
}

return $post;

}, 10, 2);

This works partially: the content itself is excluded as intended, but entries are still created with null content, which results in empty indexed items.

I can work with that, but would it be possible to adjust the logic so that entries with null content are not indexed at all ?

Alternatively, a dedicated hook to explicitly exclude posts from indexing might be a cleaner approach.

I look forward to your thoughts on the best way to handle this.

Louis

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