CLI based WordPress imports

October 19, 2011 by Thorsten 4 Comments

I frequently need to import client content and I usually do it a couple of times so a CLI version of the importer is much more useful for me than the web interface.

I guess many of you have the same issue so I published my current work in progress for a CLI wrapper around the wordpress-importer at https://github.com/tott/WordPress-CLI-Importer.

As mentioned – this is a very raw, very undocumented work in progress. Feel free to check it out and let me know if you run into any trouble with it or have any suggestions. All feedback welcome!

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4 Responses to “CLI based WordPress imports”

Gilles Vauvarin Reply October 20, 2011 at 12:49 pm

Hello,

Thank you for sharing 🙂
Just one question: does the plugin and/or your script import our custom metabox data ?
- Thorsten Reply October 21, 2011 at 7:18 am
  
  It handles everything the default wordpress-importer does. So postmeta will be imported as well.
technofreaky Reply March 17, 2012 at 12:01 pm

Hi,thanks for the script. I tried in my wordpress multi site setup in localhost. Its comes up to next line after I hit enter in the terminal, I am using wordpress3.3.1 and wordpress importer 0.5.2 version plugin. Kindly help me fixing this.
- technofreaky Reply March 17, 2012 at 2:43 pm
  
  Hi, I got it solved. Thank you

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