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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: CSV Importer] Updating/appending postsI should have referenced that post – it’s exactly the one I read to understand how useful custom taxonomies could be.
For the updating, I think it could be a different tool, but could be really great here (I’m not trying to be pushy – this has been more helpful than the one paid plugin I tried for the same purpose, and I appreciate the time you’ve spent on it as well as your responses). Here’s another situation: a large file times out in the middle of uploading. Instead of having to split into lots of smaller files, if there were a unique key for each entry (could be a custom field) the import could pick up or overwrite from where it cut out without duplicates. If I have an existing post with the ID CSVI50, a future upload with that same ID would overwrite the information instead of adding a new post.
The custom field update was a bad example. Right now, I make changes in bulk directly through SQL queries, and even just updating one field means including the information from the other fields (title, body, excerpt, etc), so it makes sense that trying to update only one part of a post would be beyond the scope of the plugin. But the ability to overwrite posts in bulk – in their entirety not just one field, using a custom key as unique identifier would be great for updates and timeouts. In the first example, it would mean re-uploading all of the post content in addition to whatever was different/changed. At least that’s how I’m thinking of it, but you’d know better than I would if it would work in practice.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: CSV Importer] Updating/appending postsIf you have a small number of posts, deleting and starting over might be okay, but if it’s anything in quantity it would be nice to be able to overwrite based on a unique identifier (perhaps a key given in the initial upload).
As an example, let’s say you make posts for each of Amazon’s best sellers. The body of the post is a book description, custom field is position on the charts. The book description wouldn’t change, but where it ranks on the best seller list could. Instead of deleting all of the posts about each book – everything else would still be accurate, it would be nice to be able to update that custom field (or maybe just the post body to keep things simple). In a more generic situation, perhaps you’d want to update all posts in the “Non-fiction bestsellers” category without going through each post one at a time.
If a custom taxonomy ID or name could be defined similar to how categories can be defined, it would open so many possibilities.
Example: one custom taxonomy is “Author Name”. If you could match one of the fields to the custom taxonomy “author_name” or “book_publisher” – or whatever the taxonomies are, instead of “post_tag” (default), you could then use the custom taxonomies to let people browse/search for posts about books where Author is X and Publisher is X.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: CSV Importer] Some problems with this great pluginI know 3 was an old question, but to combine the titles the best thing to do is use the concatenate function in Excel to do this yourself.
So far that’s worked out pretty well for me (and is how I makeup most of the post body). When you save as a CSV the formula automatically gets kicked out. If you haven’t found another way, hope that helps.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: Custom Field Taxonomies] Error on installationAs this is on a new site, I wiped the database and started from scratch. I had your front end editor installed the first time, but left it out on this install and started with CFT first.
Seems to be okay now. Currently running both custom field plugins (Template and Custom Search), WP multi-lingual plugin and they all seem to be playing well together.
Thank you for responding so quickly though. Greatly appreciated.