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Hi

Thank you for your interest in Easy CSV Importer. However there is a plugin more suited to your needs and it’s great. It has a .csv importer but it’s main purpose is the display of data in tables and not basic tables either. Enjoy.

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/tablepress/

This plugin will eventually offer the ability to create tables. I’m still working on my auto-blogger CSV 2 POST. Then I’ll come back to this plugin and improve it focus on importing data for various purposes rather than just posts i.e. tables, directories and to third party plugins own database tables.

Thank you for your kind words and rating.

Hi

The new version has many core changes that require existing campaigns to be migrated properly. This does not happen automatically due to the nature of the plugin and a certain change that makes it more complicated in certain blogs.

If you have updated version 7 with version 8 on a live blog before testing then any posts already created using CSV 2 POST will no longer be managed by the plugin. That can be changed but the tool to do it is not ready. Most users do not update an autoblogging plugin once the campaign is running, to avoid upsetting an ongoing project. So we’re getting away with this so far.

If your situation is that your .csv file used to work with version 7 or before but no longer works with version 8 it will be due to headers. Version 8 focuses on running more efficiently in terms of PHP and requires the .csv file to have MySQL ready headers. It makes the code easier because we do not need to manage different versions of headers i.e. complex headers need to be simplified for use in the database which does not accept complex headers. That simply means no characters or spaces in your headers. Simplifying them makes them suitable to use in MySQL table names and makes the relationship between .csv file and database table easier.

If your still not sure and stuck please email [email protected] who is the author of the plugin. He has endless time for his plugin users.

Hi

I think the sample is out of date and may cause problems. There might be URL in the data that no longer exist.

I have two importers. The other CSV 2 POST and it is more advanced. Both are being updated to 8.0.0 and the updates bring lots of changes. CSV 2 POST was first and almost done. I’m hoping ECI is updated before end of April.

I’m taking a new approach with the sample files by hosting it on Google Documents with public access. There are links from the public to visit them plus links to download. The idea is to ensure while testing we’re all working with the same data. So that issue is being addressed already. I think we should be able to use the spreadsheets and .csv examples in CSV 2 POST with ECI without it being an issue.

“Are you sure you want to do this?” could be a lot of things WordPress, mostly nonce security though. I would normally offer to get stuck in but in 2-3 weeks I’m updating it anyway. That will take a couple of weeks.

If however you could indicate the specific forms/screens you used it may be enough information to help me deliver a fix soon.

Thanks
Ryan

I thought I would point out some technical stuff. If you or anyone wants to add a little html to the video. Say a <div> with CSS styling to center it.

Go to include/yts_public_functions.php

Currently line 143 you will find a function named yts_video_object(). That is where more html should be added. Currently it looks like this…

echo '<object width="'.$width.'" height="'.$height.'">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/'.$videoid.$color.$border.'"></param>
    <param name="allowFullScreen" value="'.$fullscreen.'"></param>
    <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
    <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/'.$videoid.$color.$border.'" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
    allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="'.$fullscreen.'" width="'.$width.'" height="'.$height.'"></embed>
    </object>';

and we want it to look something like…

echo '<div style="text-align:center"><object width="'.$width.'" height="'.$height.'">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/'.$videoid.$color.$border.'"></param>
    <param name="allowFullScreen" value="'.$fullscreen.'"></param>
    <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
    <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/'.$videoid.$color.$border.'" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
    allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="'.$fullscreen.'" width="'.$width.'" height="'.$height.'"></embed>
    </object></div>';

What is new is the <div> at the beginning and one at the end, within the single quotes. This is the quickest fix, not the best really. The best approach is a CSS rule that is stored in a .css file. Even better, make use of WordPress styles or theme styles for perfection.

Anyway I’ve added this quick solution while I’m at it. The plugin will eventually get a big update anyway and I’ll improve the CSS options but this change will not suit everyone. This plugin is on a list for re-development using my new plugin core which has responsive interface and uses classes instead of functions.