Hello everyone, I have a difficult question but if anyone could help me out, it would be awesome. So my business partner and I are working on a very large site that will have about 4,000 pages right off the bat. We'll have the content and page urls ready to go in a little bit. What we were wondering is if there's some tool, method or trick to get Wordpress to generate pages automatically. It seems like the WP backend is always so slow. Is there a way we could upload some document, and have Wordpress (or some other tool) read that document, generate URLs and paste the content in? If we could also get it to add in the meta data, that would be even better. I know this is kind of a long shot but it would save us months of work over the long term of this project. We probably sound like some real lazy asses but we're trying to automate as much of this project as possible so we can concentrate on adding high quality content. Thanks a million!
If you are still looking for a solution, let me know. I used a plug in that allowed me to create over 10,000 posts from a .csv file. It was a lot easier for me to compile all of my info in a .csv than to individually create posts.
I am sure someone has some kind of script for this, but I would be leery of creating that much content AND the SEO info automatically and trusting that the information, punctuation, spelling, spacing, and paragraphs are all laid out correctly for each and every one of the 4k pages...or else the whole thing will be a waste of time and you will end up with 4k pages of run on sentences, gibberish, or duplicate meta and SEO info. Just a word of advice, Wordpress was not really made to work that way.
I would agree, before using any post automation plugin or otherwise is to test, and then test some more. There will be certain compromises on anything you do. This is what I did on my test site to see if it was even an option. 1. The plug-in I used was CSV2Post Pro. 2. I created a custom post template. All content from the posts were in the forms of custom fields. 3. I spent many, many hours fine tuning my data in a .csv. I had specific columns for Paragraphs, links, images, categories, tags, description, excerpt etc. All column headings were the custom field names used in the custom post template. 4. You will need to read through the instructions of CSV2Post Pro for everything it can do. You will need to do small level testing and then more testing. The Mass Page Remover plugin will be your friend. 5. CSV2Post Pro gives you options on what to upload from your .csv to your post. 6. In regards to SEO, one of the cool features of CSV2Post Pro is it allows you to schedule your post creations to happen over a period of time, or the way I did it was to set it up where it automatically creates 1 or more posts every time your site is accessed by someone. You can select how many you want created at one time. Depending on the traffic your site gets, you could create the posts over a month or so. Now for my disclaimers. I in no way claim to be a Word Press expert. I have found this procedure worked very well for me. I will use this same procedure on a future site I am working on. Also, I am not trying to be a salesman for CSV2Post Pro. I paid for the plugin. It was the most expensive plugin I have paid for and it was worth every penny. If you need additional details, let me know and I will try to answer them.
I have used an affiliate auto poster before and it worked out pretty well, but I still needed to fine tune each one...there are just some things that a script can't do or account for. I would imagine you had to do some extensive programming to get it all to come out correctly every time. That sounds like a great function there. First I have ever heard of such a thing for Wordpress. Just curious, how does the site do ?
The first one was a test. I pushed out over 10,000 posts in 8 days. Google indexed about as fast as they were pushed out. Traffic went basically from nothing to about 500 page views during the same amount of time. For the new site, I have better content and have learned a thing or 2 through trial and error so I hope for better results.