I use Wordpress both as a CMS and a blog, and I am so tired of having to spend tens of hours building a site using the Wordpress Dashboard and my server's bandwidth. When I setup a new install, I have to go trhough and put in all of the pages, posts, parents and options and plugins and everything. Since I am looking to make like 10 installs, I'd rather just find a way to save some time. Is there any way that I can hop in a database program, like Excel or another, and just write everything I need locally on my computer and then import all the posts, categories, and all of that to a Wordpress install's mysql database? Anyone that has a free or cheap solution would be amazing! I'll happily pay up to $30-$50 for a good work around for this... -Brad
I've generated sql inserts countless times from Excel spreadsheet data. There are some wordpress-db-specific-issues due to the "normalized" design (e.g. you need the id number of the category you want to publish to), but it can be done. Are you trying to publish the same article to multiple blogs?