suggestion for mass-importing text-files into Wordpress?

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Hey there,

I've got a bunch of articles which I'd now like to mass-import into Wordpress.

did some Googling, some solutions make you convert them into .csv files, the problem there are the line-breaks.

Ideally, I'd like to keep the MS Word docs as they are and just pull them in, if necessary I can save them as .txt files.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Cheers

Veit
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  • Are all of them in same file or each of them is in separate file ? Actually it depends on how many articles you have and how they are. If not too many hire someone to do the job from you . You can try to find people in odesk who will do it very cheaply . Per hour may be at $2+
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    • they are in different files, so I'll be hiring someone anyway to put them into a new format.

      But: creating individual posts takes far longer than copy&paste into one big .csv/whatever file (or even better: having a tool to pull it all in).

      and as I'm talking about hundreds of pieces of content, I'd rather automate it.

      Cheers

      Veit
  • How about replacing the line breaks in your document with "LINEBREAK" (something that is guaranteed unique), exporting them to CSV, importing them, and then do a search and replace on all imported articles and replace "LINEBREAK" back to line breaks?

    If you need to import like this regularly, you may want to find a cleaner solution, but it might work for now.
  • Could you just put them as pdfs? Or combine them into a pdf package? then upload. Or do you need to edit them?
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    • no, PDF is no good, I want to create SEO'd articles for my sites.
      Sure, uploading the PDFs to content storage sites is a great idea, but for now, the main purpose is to populate a new blog with a few hundred articles quickly

      Veit
  • Hey Veit,

    If it's an on-going issue, then I'm not sure.

    If it's a once-off issue, please PM me, I'd be happy to help out.
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    • thanks for the offer!

      it's ongoing (we're looking at around 10k articles to be posted over the next 6 months, so I need some sort of automation;-)

      Veit
  • If you can send me one or two article sample , I can tell you if I can automate the process. I have done similar types of jobs - export and import data across various platform .
    Please PM me if you are in a situation to get help from professional
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  • how many articles you have and how they are? You should go for professional of article writing. How much you pay for one article?
  • Veit,

    Robert Plank has a cheap WP plugin that may be able to help you. It's here - http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...press-7-a.html

    You may to reformat the content first, but that plugin may help.
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    • Hey Viet,

      I've solution in my BlogSense Automation Suite that has state of the art handling for text file importing and provides bells and wistles too, such as templating, making use of shortcodes, using the first line as the title, detecting and using custom dates for each article, advanced categorization.

      Here's a a video I just made to show you some of the capabilities:
      BlogSense - Mass Text/Article Importing - Drop Posting Module - YouTube
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  • I use a plugin titled review plugin for wordpress to do mass importing. It has treated me well, but does have a few small issues that you need to learn to work through.
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