I have a bunch of books on a CD that I want to import into wordpress posts...is there a way to do this from the backend? obviously one by one would take forever. Each book will have a bunch of posts, between 10-100 each (for each chapter). Any ideas, or prices that you could do this for? Let me know if you have questions, I know it is kinda a weird request.
PM me how can you pay for that , i am ready to do that not fully . You can employ a buch of interested DP members for that ..
The best way I would suggest is to do them in your localhost (on your computer) and upload the database. Since doing them online might some time be slower to process. Provide me complete details of number posts that has to be made, I will see if I can do it Cheers, Dreamchaser
dreamchaser, there are all in .txt format, approximately 4 gb worth of data...I would probabally want to try maybe 100 mb first and see how that looks. Let me know how possible it is, and price range and I can send you a sample page. Thanks, brandon
The cleanest way to do this is probably to generate an rss xml feed out of the articles you want to have imported, and use the rss import functions of WP to load the data. Alternatively, the articles could be converted into a direct mysql import; the latter will probably run much faster, but will have to be very specific for the specific version of WP you're using.
when you say books on cd, do you mean text files, e-books, pdf files, word documents, or what? The difficulty in building an import program depends on the difficulty of reading and parsing the source data.