I wanted to find a Wordpress plugin that allowed me to future post a whole bunch of posts that I could add to relevant categories and add a future timestamp too. I wanted to use excel to create a csv file of the post preloaded with html links and the like to make sure that if I went away I could easily bulk add posts. Also I had an idea for a series and thought rather than build it each week I could upload the whole lot in one chunk. I am thinking about a 1 tip a day blog to so this would save me a huge amount of time.

I searched all the plugin sites, downloaded all the ones that claimed to do what I wanted and installed them. But something didn’t work with them.  Not how I wanted them too anyway.

So to cut a long story short I found a coder and had them build one for me. It works like a charm for me and will allow me to build in some pretty cool stuff. I also toyed with the idea of selling it as I paid to have it built and it is a great little script. But then I thought if all the plugin owners felt like this, I would never would have half the cool stuff on my blog. So I am giving it away.

You don’t even need to give me an email address, just download and install it like a normal plugin.

Here you go…

UPDATE MARCH 2009 We have a new home at http://www.importcsv.com

Then once activated go to management

Then browse for the CSV file to import and click submit.

Thats it!

Creating the CSV file

Now to get the CSV file to work as you want it there are 5 fields you need to add:

title

post

tags

timestamp

category

You can even use categories that don’t exist yet. It will simply add them when they are posted.

Most are self explanatory, the post field can include HTML but remember when using excel to save as a CSV file.

There is a sample csv file in the zip file.

Enjoy.

If you like it let me know or share some comments. I designed it but didn’t build it so if you have problems let me know and I’ll try and help. If there are any features needed also let me know and I’ll see what we can do.

About the Author

I have spent the last 12 years working with Finance and Insurance companies using the Internet. I have also worked in that time or consulted with all of the major Insurance and Finance aggregators including MoneySupermarket, Confused, MoneyExtra, Moneynet and others...