Exporting events for print

[Matthew W Kanner]

Exporting EC PRO events is important because media companies want information submitted online, but want to be able to use the data for print as well as the web.

The threads I’ve found say that plugins like WP CSV and wp-ultimate-csv-importer have issues.

” … there is a catch. Events, venues and organizers all export as separate line items vs as one line with all the info for an event on it.”

What’s the problem here? If it’s possible to put data into the database, it should possible to get it out.

[George]

Hey @dktrrobt,

Thanks for reaching out. You can indeed get the data out in a number of ways. I am not sure where the quote you provided is from, but it is generally true: events, venues, and organizers all export as separate line items, instead of as one line with all the info for an event on it.

You can get the data out, for sure—however, if you want to get it out in a specific way that is different from the standard “out-of-the-box” way it might take some custom work or the use of another plugin that is focused on exporting data.

If you want to use the data for print, then you can indeed use one of those CSV plugins. To export a CSV file of all of the data. You could also use the WordPress Exporter tool to export as XML, and then convert that to CSV. Whatever you’d like! 🙂

Once you’ve got CSV, you can import that into Excel or “Numbers” or any such program, and proceed with printing from there.

Cheers,
George

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