WordPress Importer Support

[jeremyfelt]

Hi @TobiasBg!

I'm running into this issue with TablePress and have been poking around to see if there's a good approach to regenerating the table ID associations.

The table data is inserted fine in posts and postmeta during import. Because of the missing tablepress_tables option, it does not show in the standard TablePress display. It does show if I go directly to edit.php?post_type=tablepress_table.

I could see hooking on wp_import_insert_post to regenerate the data. I could also see having a "regenerate" or "flush" option that triggers and entire rewrite of tablepress_tables. This could be useful in a case where that option is accidentally deleted for some reason as well.

Before I dig further—is this something that you could see supporting in the future? And have you given any thought to approach if so?

Thanks!

[TobiasBg]

Hi @jeremyfelt!

Thanks for opening this ticket as a reminder! I haven't put that much thought and time into WordPress Importer support yet, given that TablePress has its own export/import system as a workaround here (mentioned in the link that you posted). I'm however very open to adding such support!

Using wp_import_insert_post in the WP Importer plugin looks like a good approach here, indeed. At first glance, the problem that I see is that the $post object for a table doesn't contain the table ID (as that's only stored in the tablepress_tables option, which is not exported, afaik).
So, there'd probably need to be a step in the WP Exporter that gets the table ID from the tablepress_tables option and adds it to a post meta field during the export, or something like that.
The alternative would be to simply assign a new/unused table ID to the imported tablepress_table post during the import. That way, imported tables would at least be visible in the TablePress UI, but chances are that existing [table] Shortcodes in posts/pages then point to the wrong table.

[TobiasBg]

BTW, you might be interested in this TablePress Extension, which adds a "Debug" tab to TablePress, that shows some more internal information, and allows for easy editing of the tablepress_tables option, and more. It also makes the edit.php?post_type=tablepress_table entry visible in the admin menu for easy access.

[TobiasBg]

Hi @jeremyfelt!
I just added TablePress integration into the WP import/export in 3e815dc (which will be part of TablePress 1.5 in a couple of days).
I hope it helps! :-)

[jeremyfelt]

No way! That is fantastic! I was just showing this repo to our open lab this morning and I had forgotten about the issue. Thanks @TobiasBg!

[TobiasBg]

No problem, @jeremyfelt :-) And thanks for spreading the word about the plugin!