{"id":924405,"date":"2014-12-23T14:07:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T22:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/custom-importing\/"},"modified":"2014-12-24T09:32:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T17:32:35","slug":"custom-importing","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/custom-importing\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom importing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>I am in the process of converting a rather large but unmaintainable custom CMS to WordPress.  There are several thousand users with tens of thousands of posts, comments, and events.  For a variety of technical reasons that I won&#8217;t go into here as they would assuredly bore the reader, off-the-shelf importers (yours included) won&#8217;t work for this project.<\/p>\n<p>My specific question regards the meta_key and meta_value fields in wp_postmeta.  Could you please provide documentation on these meta_key values?  What I most need to know is what fields are required, and what the constraints are for each field.  I&#8217;m sure I could reverse-engineer it given time, but it would be a huge help and time-saver if you could share that info.<\/p>\n<p>These are the fields that have so far appeared in my wp_postmeta table:<\/p>\n<p>_EventOrigin<br \/>\n_EventShowMapLink<br \/>\n_EventShowMap<br \/>\n_EventStartDate<br \/>\n_EventEndDate<br \/>\n_EventDuration<br \/>\n_EventVenueID<br \/>\n_EventCurrencySymbol<br \/>\n_EventCurrencyPosition<br \/>\n_EventCost<br \/>\n_EventURL<br \/>\n_EventOrganizerID<\/p>\n<p>_VenueOrigin<br \/>\n_VenueVenue<br \/>\n_VenueAddress<br \/>\n_VenueCity<br \/>\n_VenueCountry<br \/>\n_VenueProvince<br \/>\n_VenueState<br \/>\n_VenueZip<br \/>\n_VenuePhone<br \/>\n_VenueURL<br \/>\n_VenueStateProvince<br \/>\n_VenueLat<br \/>\n_VenueLng<\/p>\n<p>If there are others I should know of, could you please include them as well?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much, and have a great holiday season!<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Witt, Equality Kansas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-924405","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Custom importing -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/custom-importing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Custom importing -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Greetings &#8211; I am in the process of converting a rather large but unmaintainable custom CMS to WordPress. 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