What Content Uploader is, how an import works, and how to publish your first items.
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Step-by-step guides for connecting your site, mapping your spreadsheet and publishing with confidence, and what to do when something does not go as planned.
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Try: connect WordPress, WooCommerce prices and stock, columns not recognized, categories and tags, images missing, update existing posts
New here? Start with these
- What is Content Uploader?Content Uploader publishes the rows of a spreadsheet as WordPress or Joomla content, and shows you every change before anything goes live.
- Quick start in six stepsThe shortest path through Content Uploader: create an account, connect your WordPress or Joomla site, prepare a spreadsheet, configure, review and publish, in fifteen minutes.
- Connecting your WordPress siteStart the connection from WordPress, sign in to Content Uploader and approve the workspace. No WordPress password is ever entered in Content Uploader.
- Connecting your Joomla siteStart the connection from Joomla, choose the account that publishes, sign in to Content Uploader and approve the workspace. No Joomla password or API token is entered there.
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Everything, by topic.
Your profile, security, sites, team, plan and billing, and what happens to your data.
- Workspaces, owners and the workspace switcher
- Plans, allowances and what happens at a limit
- What Content Uploader keeps, for how long, and how to export or delete it
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File formats, columns, dates, HTML, encoding and limits, with example files to download.
- Supported file formats and what is rejected
- Example spreadsheets you can download and try
- Common spreadsheet mistakes, and the fix for each
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Install the plugin, connect your site, and what WordPress offers: content types, fields, taxonomies and images.
- Connecting your WordPress site
- WordPress content types and fields you can map
- Troubleshooting the WordPress connection
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Create products and keep prices, sales and stock up to date from a spreadsheet, with a look at what changes before it does.
- WooCommerce: what you can do from a spreadsheet
- Update products that are already on your shop
- Review product changes: the summary, the card and what the shop holds
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Install the connector, choose the publishing account, connect your site, and what Joomla offers for articles.
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Create a configuration once, then upload each new file: destination, record ID, options and limits.
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Map spreadsheet columns to titles, content, categories, tags, dates, custom fields and more.
- How mapping works
- Categories: columns, paths and parent categories
- Tags: several per item, from one or two columns
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Send images from a ZIP or web addresses, and what happens when one is missing.
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Read what will change, understand warnings, publish, and handle partial results.
- How the review works
- Publish your changes: exactly when and how your site is changed
- Publishing results: what happened to each item
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Complete walkthroughs with example data: bulk imports, updates, categories, HTML and fixing a failed file.
- Create one hundred WordPress posts from one spreadsheet
- Import one hundred articles into Joomla from one spreadsheet
- Update existing content from next week's spreadsheet
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Find the message you saw and the steps that fix it: files, mapping, connections, images and publishing.
- The file cannot be read or is refused
- The connection to my site fails
- Items fail to publish: every message and what to do
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Short answers about platforms, data, billing, connectors, importing and updating content.
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Limits, supported formats, compatibility, every field and error message, security and the glossary.
- Limits and quotas: every number in one place
- Error messages: every message, what it means and where to read more
- Glossary: the words Content Uploader uses
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Frequently needed
- Quick start in six stepsGetting started
- How mapping worksMapping columns
- Columns are missing or not recognisedTroubleshooting
- How rows are matched to items on your siteReviewing and publishing
- Images are missing, wrong or not replacedTroubleshooting
- Categories or tags are wrong, missing or duplicatedTroubleshooting
- Example spreadsheets you can download and tryPreparing your spreadsheet
- Update existing content from next week's spreadsheetTutorials