Event import via third-party plugin: WP All Import

[deanburchell]

WP is new to me but it seemed at first there was a pretty easy solution for importing a set of events from an XML file into Events Calendar PRO via the WP All Import plugin. Event titles, descriptions, dates and categories load as expected but other fields involving venues and organizers — which seem accessible through Custom Fields available in the WP All Import setup don’t seem to import. I know I am referencing a second plugin product but are the custom fields that I see available during import e.g. “_VenueAddress” not actually associated with Calendar Events PRO? Import of start and end dates through these custom fields seems to be working. (via “_EventStartDate” and “_EventEndDate”). Is it because Venues and Organizers are relational?

[deanburchell]

Upon review I can’t imagine this making any sense to anyone! 🙂

[Barry]

Hi Dean,

Yeah I’m afraid we can only offer very limited support for third party plugins such as the one I think you’re referring to.

What I can say is that it’s quite possible to use the “official” WP import/export tools to push and pull event data out of WordPress installations and that uses XML as the intermediary format. So, it’s definitely possible to do this, if only by studying the XML import/export format used by WordPress’s own importer/exporter and cooking something up that way.

I’m afraid there’s little else we can offer at this time.

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