{"id":1339284,"date":"2017-08-23T10:33:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T17:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/csv-import-loop\/"},"modified":"2017-08-23T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T17:33:58","slug":"csv-import-loop","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/csv-import-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"CSV Import loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on a complicated migration of event listings from a very old Expression Engine site to WordPress and your CSV import option is great. However, I&#8217;ve been testing my export settings with Expression Engine to get the fields to show up right in The Events Calendar. I&#8217;ve realized that I had the description field set up wrong and as such it randomly offset some of my CSV fields. 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