Bulk create articles with category and upload to a blog (using 2 tasks only)

[Tim]

1. The problem

Example, you have 10 blogs, each with 10 categories of content.
You want to create 10 articles for each category for all 10 blogs and upload the content.

Currently you would need to create a unique article creator task for each category for each blog.

10 blogs * 10 category = 100 article creator tasks

This happens because you can only assign one category per task

Then to post those articles, because you can’t assign a post to a blog (its random) you need to create a unique post uploader for each blog you manage.

10 blogs = min 10 post uploader tasks

2. Simple solution

1. Allow tagging article keyword with the WP_CATEGORY eg…
   
   This way you an assign an article keyword to its own category without creating a new task.

2. Allow tagging a set of articles to a blog to upload to
   That way when you press the upload button…
   

   
   
   The articles are correctly assigned to its own category and also to the correct blog.
   This will save clicks on having to ‘select a blog’

The solution should mean that 1 only with article creator and 1 post uploader we can create content for all our blogs.

[GertGambell]

Is it also possible to get each post saved in its own subfolder (category named) that is inside a main folder (blog named)?

[Tim]

Theoretically you can do this by adding the new article variables to the output folder. Ie wp_category and blog.

However this breaks post uploader, it won’t find posts in sub folders I think.

[GertGambell]

If I set “Save location” to Documents\SCM\BlogArticles\BlogFolder\CategoryFolder then all posts ends up there fine. But then one can only run one category at a time.

It has to be set in “Keywords” but the simple solution above is refused by SCM because it contains the word Sencha.

This:
How to distill water at home? WP_CATEGORY=“INTRODUCTION TO WATER DISTILLATION” BLOG=“myblog.com”

Generate category: “Introduction to water distillation” as last line in SCM written blog post. So it is possible to write for example 1000 blog posts in one go, for unlimited categories.

It does not save blog name in post.

[Tim]

The above is just example, not yet implemented. Don’t copy it directly into your task, sencha etc is just example keyword.

In next update:

Select CSV file with keyword, category, blog (must have csv header as well)
Example:

Select template task

Click generate task

New task is created

Keywords are correctly set with category

Also category and blog inserts auto enabled

Select export wordpress upload

Then you can run task

On click ‘upload post’

Each post is correctly assigned category and matching blog

The blog matching will do partial match to blog domain in the post uploader blog window

To output each file to /blog/category

Enable folder output
Add the new article variables
%project_folder%\%WP_BLOG%\%WP_CATEGORY%

Output