The video from my WPCampus 2016 talk, Getting to WordPress, is now available! https://youtu.be/cUx2raLevD4 Huge thanks to the WPCampus crew for their hard work on getting all these videos edited in their copious spare time. … [Read more...] about Video for Getting to WordPress (AKA how to import anything into WP) from WPCampus 2016
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New WordPress plugin: Citation Importer
The WordPress Citation Importer plugin imports individual citations, bibliography lists, or lists of DOIs into WordPress via the CrossRef Metadata API. Using a publication post type and/or a few custom fields, you could build a local database of publications for your company, … [Read more...] about New WordPress plugin: Citation Importer
WPCampus 2016 presentation: Getting to WordPress
Here are my slides from my WPCampus talk, Getting to WordPress (AKA How to Import Absolutely Anything): http://www.slideshare.net/stephanieleary/getting-to-wordpress The video should be up soon! … [Read more...] about WPCampus 2016 presentation: Getting to WordPress
Upcoming events for 2016: WPCampus, Content Strategy Summit, HighEdWeb
Tonight (and about once a month from now on), I'll be at the College Station WordPress Meetup. We're going to build a site from scratch as a demo for newbies. The second, smaller conference room will be available for advanced developers to chat. Locals, I hope to see you … [Read more...] about Upcoming events for 2016: WPCampus, Content Strategy Summit, HighEdWeb
Redirect imported content to WordPress URLs
Are you importing posts from another CMS? Do you want to avoid an .htaccess file with a million redirects? Of course you do! Step 1: store your old pages' paths in a custom field during your import. Step 2: adapt this little function to your site. When a user lands on a 404 … [Read more...] about Redirect imported content to WordPress URLs
Import Delicious bookmarks as WordPress links or posts
So, a while back, I was working on a Delicious importer for WordPress. It's an update of Guillermo Moreno's plugin, which imports bookmarks as posts. I added an option to bring them in as links, which made more sense to me, but there's a big problem: since the WordPress link … [Read more...] about Import Delicious bookmarks as WordPress links or posts
New plugin: Gallery2 to WordPress importer
This plugin allows you to import albums, images (with captions), and comments from a Gallery2 installation into your WordPress site. Albums will be saved as pages containing the [gallery] shortcode, and images will be saved as attachments. The album hierarchy will be preserved in … [Read more...] about New plugin: Gallery2 to WordPress importer
