import to pages not posts

[kevin]

wordpress has a huge hole when it comes to importing from a CSV file. I need to find something that will take a CSV file and import it to pages instead of posts.

Will this plugin allow me to import pages? I tried looking for the videos to determine this - site still says "coming soon".

My goal is to create an excel file with all my pages/content and use a plugin to convert that file to an entire website. Can your review plugin accomplish that?

[nickmattern]

No, the plugin does not import pages.

With the correct permalink structure, posts and pages show up in the same manner, are you certain you need pages versus posts?

[kevin]

I like the ability to assign parents to pages, which allows me to create a site hierarchy. Could I do that with posts?

site/
site/product/
site/product/detail

[nickmattern]

I like the ability to assign parents to pages, which allows me to create a site hierarchy. Could I do that with posts?

site/
site/product/
site/product/detail

With categories and an appropriate permalink, yes you sure can.

Permalink would be: /%category%/%postname%/

However, if you have multiple hundreds of categories, you might see some performance degradation, depending on the power of your server..

Our next version of WFReview should be available tomorrow and will support subcategory importing. If you would like to send me some sample data, I'd be happy to put it on an example site and let you see how it would work before you buy.

[From the Wordpress Codex (http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Structure_Tags):]
%category% A sanitized version of the category name (category slug field on New/Edit Category panel). Nested sub-categories appear as nested directories in the URI. Starting Permalinks with %category% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons.
Category base

The Category base is a prefix used in category permalinks, which always take the form
category_base/category_name
The default category base is category.
Custom permalinks work on most systems without any problems, but there are still some conditions where problems occur.

[kevin]

Gotcha - I knew you could accomplish this with a base category tag, but can you make that base category blank?

with a base tag you'd have

www.site.com/basetag/post
www.site.com/basetag/post/post1
www.site.com/basetag/post/post1/post2

where I'd like

www.site.com/post
www.site.com/post/post1
www.site.com/post/post1/post2



By the way thanks for the real quick responses! Nop notch. Any reason why pretty much noone has a page import solution? Is it that unheard of or complicated?

[nickmattern]

Gotcha - I knew you could accomplish this with a base category tag, but can you make that base category blank?

with a base tag you'd have

www.site.com/basetag/post (http://www.site.com/basetag/post)
www.site.com/basetag/post/post1 (http://www.site.com/basetag/post/post1)
www.site.com/basetag/post/post1/post2 (http://www.site.com/basetag/post/post1/post2)

where I'd like

www.site.com/post (http://www.site.com/post)
www.site.com/post/post1 (http://www.site.com/post/post1)
www.site.com/post/post1/post2 (http://www.site.com/post/post1/post2)



By the way thanks for the real quick responses! Nop notch. Any reason why pretty much noone has a page import solution? Is it that unheard of or complicated?

No idea why others don't have an import pages script! I'm not sure if you can get the /basetag/ out of there or not to be honest. I will play around with it once version 2 is released and post back here!

[kevin]

Thanks! Much appreciated

[pfgannon]

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-no-category-base/

http://www.reviewpluginforwordpress.com/support/attachment.php?attachmentid=4&stc=1&d=1240345718

[brettbum]

I'm new to the forum and have been scoping out this plugin for a week or so now. One of the primary features I would like to see is the ability to create pages and not posts.

Some of the previous replies seem to date back to a year ago, and I'm wondering if this has changed in version 4. I have seen free plugins that allow imports to pages (they don't do half as much other great stuff nor do they do it as well, but they do cover that single field in the tables that makes a post a post or a page).

As a potential new customer (on the fence and almost ready to buy just haven't seen that little bit more that would make me buy right away as opposed to talking myself into an $89 experiment) I'd like to see a new summary of 4.0 features in general. I could be wrong but everything on the site seems to speak to 3.0 features with wp 2.8.4 as opposed to 2.9.2 or any mention of 3.0 compatability (which btw has lots more post types coming).

[WFReviewAdmin]

WFReview 4.0 does not yet support creating pages, but it is on our list of upcoming features. It does however support wp 2.9.2 AND 3.0.

[brettbum]

Thanks for the update, I'm test driving the free trial tonight, hoping to figure out if this will do enough of what I need it to do in v4.0.

fyi for any that follow, tonight I imported some posts. Then used the p2pconverter plugin to convert them to pages.

I only imported 7 pages with my first batch.

Once those pages were converted WFReview lost track of them, so when I attempted to create reviews for the pages converted from posts imported by WFReview, the plugin couldn't create the reviews (probably lost track of them, possibly because they are now sub pages of parent pages (the post ID number didn't change).

On my next test run through, I will try and generate the reviews before I convert the posts to pages.

In general, WFReview seems to rely on creating reviews based on which posts are in a category. Since Pages are not typically 'categorized' this isn't possible?

I suppose a 5.0 option if it supports pages would need to find some other way to filter pages. (gonna try a WP plugin that gives pages categories and see if that helps, already running a tags for pages plugin.)

[brettbum]

I installed the Map to Category plugin. This allowed my Pages to have categories assigned to them (actually, they were already there as I had converted a post with a category to a page). But when I tried to perform the creation of reviews it didn't work.

So then I went in on a page and converted it back to a post. Ran the WFReview and it created reviews only on that post.

When I tried to convert the post with reviews to a page again. It caused a redirect problem and the page couldn't be displayed at all.

:confused:

With that post, after deleting the comments/reviews, turning off cache etc, I couldn't get the post to work again. I ended up having to send that post to the trash.

Upon this preliminary trial and error experiment, it would appear that I can't get a review on to a Page even in a relatively manual work around. I point it out not to complain, just to let others know what I've tried and maybe shed some light on the scope of the problem for developers too.