Difference between revisions of "WP Importer Plugin"

Latest revision as of 09:04, 16 March 2021

Setup the plugin

git clone ssh://git@bitbucket.gaslightmedia.com:7999/plug/glm-wp-importer.git

Example setting for PHSACF website. Which has a toolbox with ckeditor, multiple files per paragraph, and ckimage editor.

Check the image sizes in Media. This should be updated before importing so larger images can be used.

400 x 1024 (medium size)

The first checkbox deals with placing the page title into the page content. Some sites might have a separate title area for this and this should be set to unchecked. Otherwise you should have this checked.

Settings > GLM WP Importer

- Place the navigation title into page content - check
- Site uses old ht_images directory in images - unchecked
- site url: http://www.phsacf.org
- blog url:
- db host: ds4
- db name:phsacf
- db user: postgres
- db pass:
- toolbox schema: toolbox
- toolbox page table: pages
- toolbox paragraph table: paragraphs
- toolbox file table: files
- toolbox files url: http://is0.gaslightmedia.com/phsacf/_ORIGINAL_
- ckeditor schema: ckimages
- ckeditor images table: ckeditor_images
- toolbox image url: http://is0.gaslightmedia.com/phsacf
- exclude pages:
- include pages:
- parent page: 0

Tools > Import

There are 6 step for importing the toolbox. The image processing part will be broken up based on how many images it finds.

Step 1: Page import
Step 2: Import Images
    This may have more than one part. To break up the images into 100 each time to process.
Step 3: Import Files
Step 4: Update image references
Step 5: Update File references
Step 6: Update Url's and Keywords

For each step there's a lot of debug info output to the screen. Goto the bottom of the screen and click the next step.