The truth is, though, I had to scrap plans to use your plugin in the middle of the night last night. What I found was that it was truncating the content of the posts and roughing up the formatting in some weird ways like stripping escape characters out of carriage return/new line commands. I didn’t have time to diagnose the formatting and it was only loading about 150-200 words, not the entire 500-700 words in the pages. So, I had to drop it. It’s a shame because this looked like exactly what I needed.

So, I saw the references to cron up above and starting looking at how to solve my problem. In the end, here’s what you can try:

1) Create the upload file as described above.
2) Date your records/pages with past dates
3) Date the LAST record in the upload file with a date in the future. Preferably about 10 minutes in the future so you have long enough to complete the upload but don’t have to wait forever to continue.
4) Upload the file as described above. You’ll notice the articles appear in WP Admin and that the last post is marked “Scheduled”.
5) Wait until 10 minutes have passed.
6) Browse the HOME PAGE of your site. I think this causes WP cron to run.
7) The pages should show up in the menu (if they weren’t already there) and you should be able to browse them without a 404 error.
If you get a 404 error, check the article that was schedule for future publication. It might say “Missed Schedule” next to it. If so, browse http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-cron.asp then go back to the page that was giving you the 404. The pages should work now.

In my case, I had it happen both ways. Once I had to browse wp-cron the other time not; but in both cases, the pages would 404 immediately after upload.

I hope this helps save some other poor sucker the hours I’ve spent chasing this issue down.

Have a good one!
Kevin

P.S. @wesg This plugin rocks (or at least it should). I started looking at it because inserting pages directly into the database using SQL wasn’t working. I was having the same problem where pages showed in the menu but gave me a 404. There must be something that WordPress is doing to the data when it’s saved that we don’t know about. At least it wasn’t obvious to me. Hope this info helps you with future updates. Thanks!

I’m turn around on how to upload a specific image or document attached to each post or page ID (media library)

I have tried entering the name of my post template in the page template column of the csv but it doesn’t seem to work. I am entering it as template.php. Is your plugin looking for the template file to be in a specific location?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

When importing via .csv …

It seems like staus, type, ping and comment need to be lowercase, though the instructions above show options listed in uppercase.

Page parent should be id number without quotes or “none” in quotes … cannot be empty.

thanks!