Title: [Plugin: CSV Importer] multiple categories
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: CSV Importer] multiple categories

 *  [qw3rt7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qw3rt7/)
 * (@qw3rt7)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-multiple-categories/)
 * Is it possable to have more than one category per post with this plugin?
 * If so how do i setup the csv file?
 * Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [qw3rt7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qw3rt7/)
 * (@qw3rt7)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-multiple-categories/#post-1872915)
 * Anyone?
 *  [Sparky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blitzgigs/)
 * (@blitzgigs)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-multiple-categories/#post-1872958)
 * I’m very interested in this too. but with custom taxonomies. It should work the
   same as Categories though.
 * I’ve tried
    “”parent1,child1″,”parent2,child2″”
 * but no success. It screws up the columns and crashes the import with a ‘no such
   post type’ error.
 * thanks if anyone knows the trick!
 *  [sm906](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sm906/)
 * (@sm906)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-multiple-categories/#post-1872961)
 * Yes, I am looking forward to know how to import more than one category as well.
   I tried several things, but did not find out how this may work.
 * BTW: Great plugin, which will save me a ton of hours!
 * Thomas
 *  [dvkob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvkob/)
 * (@dvkob)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-multiple-categories/#post-1872979)
 * qw3rt7: sm906: Multiple categories can be specified the same way tags are – by
   separating category names with commas.
 * Blitzgigs: Custom taxonomies are different. You specify hierarchical taxonomies
   one per line. Check out the custom-taxonomies.csv file in the examples directory.
 * Make sure to read the [manual](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/csv-importer/other_notes/).
   Because CSV does not lend itself well to complicated data formats, using advanced
   features of the plugin is very hard without the docs.
 *  [Sparky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blitzgigs/)
 * (@blitzgigs)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-csv-importer-multiple-categories/#post-1872980)
 * hi dvkob,
 * Thanks for coming back to us. and thanks for the wonderful plugin!
    I just saw
   what you’re referring to in the sample file, excel hides the multiple lines so
   I missed that point, sorry and thanks!
 * TL;DR: You need to use a carriage return/line feed character to separate the 
   multiple taxonomy names within the column.
 * Great, thanks!

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