This plugin will import a directory of files as either pages or posts, according to configurable settings. You may specify the HTML tag containing the content you want to import (e.g. <body>, <div id=”content”> or <td width=”732″>) or the name of a Dreamweaver template region (e.g. “Main Content”).
If importing pages, the directory hierarchy will be preserved. Directories containing the specified file types will be imported as empty parent pages. Directories that do not contain the specified file types will be ignored.
As files are imported, the resulting IDs, permalinks, and titles will be displayed. On completion, the importer will provide a list of Apache redirects that can be used in your .htaccess file to seamlessly transfer visitors from the old file locations to the new WordPress posts or pages.
Options:
- import pages or posts
- specify content and title as HTML tags or Dreamweaver template regions
- remove a common phrase (such as the site name) from imported titles
- specify file extensions to import (e.g. html, htm, php)
- specify directories to exclude (e.g. images, css)
- if importing pages, specify whether your top-level files should become top-level pages or children of an existing page
- choose status, author, and timestamp
- use meta descriptions as excerpts
Requires PHP 5.
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Going to give it a try, I just might need a plugin to do this in the next weeks.
On another topic: why don’t you categorise/tag your posts under “WordPress”?
Thanks, Ozh. Let me know whether the import times out on you — I put in a workaround for that at the last minute, but it apparently doesn’t work on all servers. I think I’m going to have to save things in a session variable so you can pick up where you left off.
You know, I don’t know why I’ve never created a WordPress category. I never really expected to write plugins for it, not being much of a programmer. It was just this week that I realized I have EIGHT now, three in the last month. I guess it’s time to add the category!
I wish your plugin existed a year and a half ago when I switched from html to wordpress. Fortunately I think I still have a few files I never manually entered to test this with.
Believe me, I wish I’d written it a year and a half ago! Let me know how it goes.
I’m trying to get this to work but keep getting errors for the source files (the path to html files)… I have them in a folder called ‘text’ in the wp-content/plugins/ folder, should they be somewhere else?
I’ve tried calling them with the full path public_html/user/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/text/ as well as every other variation… any suggestions?
This’ll be a great plugin if I can get it to work as you describe. Thanks.
Im having same problem James, did you get this fixed? If so, can you let me know the file path you used that worked?
Thanks
Leanne.
Does anyone else have reviews on this plugin since last? Would love to know if this would work on importing a very large html website into a WordPress blog? The HTML website right now is in the format of a WordPress blog but isn’t running on any CMS just straight static html.
From what I understand I can define specific tags within the html pages to pull into the posts but will it keep the proper formatting or will I be required to go through all 1500+ posts?
Thanks for any feedback and suggestions. Kind regards!
Hi trying out wordpress for 1st time. Got an old html site. Trying to use your import html plugin.
I am using on a localhost. Have tried numerous types of paths to files and keep getting;
Warning: scandir(Macintosh HD/Applications/XAMPP/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/import-html-pages/oldidmu) [function.scandir]: failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/import-html-pages/html-import.php on line 554
Warning: scandir() [function.scandir]: (errno 2): No such file or directory in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/import-html-pages/html-import.php on line 554
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/import-html-pages/html-import.php on line 555
Any ideas?
regards
Hi Stephanie,
I’m trying to import a number of pages in chinese but they are not importing the original chinsese characters.
Are there any tips / tricks for this please.
e.g.
Is there a setting I need to change on wordpress to enable the chinese character.
e.g. a page that has these characters
主辦單位: 中華民國單車安全協會(BSA)
承辦單位: KHS 單車學校
主旨: BSA 會員，上下坡實地操練。
comes out as this
5/9(?) BSA SLD ??/??/??/ ??? (?BSA????)
????: ??????????(BSA)
????: KHS ????
??: BSA ???????????
I’ll leave a donation if you can help me please!!
Many thanks!