WordPress Ultimate CSV, XML Importer Pro

A csv file could be edited in any program like notepad or notepad++. However, a spreadsheet editor like MS Office, Open Office Calc is more useful to directly edit as tabled structure.

Most common type is csv or comma separated value file. The other one is delimited file where a character like a tab or a semicolon used instead of comma as a delimiter.

There are different file formats available based on encode like ANSI, UTF-8, UTF-8 without BOM, USC-2 BE BOM and USC-2 LE BOM. For WordPress, the default format will be UTF-8 and for non-Latin character data, UTF-8 without BOM used.

Import to WordPress done in different methods based on content source type, platform, and file types. The most common types of imports are XML, CSV and DB files.

1. Xml method needs advanced knowledge to edit/update them in case of any changes required on source data. Otherwise, users are limited to do import without any changes to source file. Hence, editing done post by post in WordPress only possible after imp
2. CSV methods allow any users with basic excel or any spreadsheet knowledge can audit, change, edit or update the data visually in bulk before importing. So painful manual works avoided and time saved.
3. Also, CSV file is the most preferred method for any offline programs. Again from V 6.0.3 auto delimitter support available for “,”, “\t”, “|”, “;”, “:” delimitters

It simple with ultimate csv importer. You can either import XML or CSV using same methods and UI. Upload your XML file using browse and upload option. Then follow mapping steps as normal to import the data.

With improved import engine, the plugin v 6.0.3 and above can handle any size of import without server side change like max. execution time sttings in php.ini. The plugin itself can manage bulk imports smoothly without any crashing in between.

This is only required if the plugin version is 6.0.2 or below. Basic System Requirements need to be met to upload a CSV with bulk of records. Kindly check your System Requirements by Settings → Security and Performance on CSV Importer plugin settings tab. You have to increase the system requirements values to the minimum values mentioned in the plugin

Import may hang due to the following reasons

• CSV not properly validated.
• CSV not properly encoded to UTF-8.
• Check the allowed file size, if needed increase the upload_max_filesize in php.ini file
• System Requirements are not matched the required values.

Note the importer uploads images in the background for faster performance and it requires WP-Cron to be enabled. For while it may look like images are not there until the background process completed.You can[easily configure WP-Cron](https://www.smackcoders.com/blog/enable-configure-wp-cron.html?utm_source=wp_org&utm_campaign=readme&utm_medium=faq) for smooth and speedy import.

This new feature allows to add multiple CSV (or XML) data columns to the post_content field and also the editor is capable of adding styled text along with droped data column tags. For example this feature can be used to build a common structured content with static style texts. Note that these styled texts are static and applied to all posts that get imported.