I’ve improved (I hope) the csv to post import plugin to support multiple categories and excerpts. csv Basically the header row should/may look like this:
wp_title|wp_post_date|wp_category|wp_category|wp_excerpt|wp_content|field1|field2
See my original post on the csv to post importer plugin to make sense of this. Please give me your feedback if you have tested it. Thanks!
Special note on importing categories and subcategories
Ok guys, here’ s the problem. One post might fall under several categories. The importer now lets you import a post under several categories. I’ve tested it and works good for me. The issue is that you might want one category to be a subcategory of another. Rather than create some funky syntax for the csv, like
wp_title | wp_post_date | wp_category | wp_content | cylinders | etc.. Mustang | 2007-12-31 23:59:59 | ford > cars | <p>nice car</p> | v8 |
which could get REALLY messy if you had a lot of subcategories, I decided to make a Category Importer
This works the same way as the post importer.

Yes this requires more work, you need to prepare a category file making sure you list the parent categories before the subcategories. After you do this, you can use the regular csv to post plugin listing all the categories you want the post to be listed under.
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Problem: I have a big excel spreadsheet with posts and extra fields and I want to import it into Wordpress.
I haven’t found a plugin to do this so I decided to make my own. It’s not complete, and it’s not quite a ‘plugin’ but it works. Here’s how to do it:


Everybody has seen the famous video ‘Americans are stupid’. Well it was a relief to see we are not alone. I just read this article that shows how smart the Brits are:
[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mq0_j2_7lJw]

Ate this burger at the Grand Lux Cafe. I don’t know of another burger in Boca that is this good.

What you didn’t know about Our Lady of Guadalupe. ‘Guadalupe’ actually was the name of a town in Estremadura, Spain. A statue of Our Lady had been given to the bishop of Seville around the year 600 by Pope Gregory the Great. It was lost and was found 600 years later by a cowherd near this town.
In 1531 a young native boy in Mexico described an apparition by a ‘Lady from Heaven’ who identified herself as ‘from Guadalupe’.