Comments on: WP CSV to Database Plugin – Import Excel file content into WordPress database (MySQL)

By: Mihcael

Mihcael — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:43:42 +0000

For a generic, free tool that allows you to load CSV files into any database, check out CSVexpress.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:02:31 +0000

You gotta format the date correctly. MySQL date values are formatted like the following:
yyyy-mm-dd
The following video tutorial should help:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-easily-import-or-export-any-of-your-wordpress-database-content-using-phpmyadmin-3415

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:06:13 +0000

This is an awesome plugin, i just have one question for you. I am using it to import posts to the wp_posts table from a csv file. Everything imports correctly except the date.

In the CSV file, the date is formatted like this:

9/30/2011 10:15

upon import, the DB shows this:

00/00/0000 00:00

any ideas?

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:55:03 +0000

Ok,, thank you for the assistance!

By: admin

admin — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 05:55:39 +0000

All comments should go to the “wp_comments” table (its one of the core tables of WordPress).

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:25:59 +0000

@admin, thanks for your reply. It shouldn’t be hard to import the comments into SQL, I have experience doing it. Do all comments plugins for wordpress make use of the same wp_comments table?

By: admin

admin — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:29:05 +0000

@Mike, I don’t know of any comments plugin that lets you import comments but I think all you really need is to insert the comments into the “wp_comments” table in WordPress. This article might help you to where you can do it yourself:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-easily-import-or-export-any-of-your-wordpress-database-content-using-phpmyadmin-3415

By: Mike C

Mike C — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:03:44 +0000

Hi, do you have any suggestions as to a good comments plugin for WordPress that isn’t too terribly difficult to import comments into? I have a few posts from my old Joomla site that have close to 1200 comments and they serve well for credibility purposes. I recently imported 530 reviews from CSV into the SQL table for WP Customer Reviews which was great! I just need to do the same thing for my comments. But just curious if you had any recommendation for a good comments plugin?

By: Brent Williamz

Brent Williamz — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 07:19:30 +0000

Ahhh…that will help enormously.

I’ll watch that video tutorial now, then delve into mycPanel MyPHPAdmin to create a table. I did manage to find some reference to the description field like you’re saying, & it said make the description field type “longtext”.

Many thanks for all that & I’ll be back…to let you know the outcome. Cheers & avagoodweekend!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 03:44:06 +0000

Just wanted to add… this tutorial might come in handy for you:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-easily-import-or-export-any-of-your-wordpress-database-content-using-phpmyadmin-3415