Question

I have a custom database that I exported as a CSV. I rearranged the columns and data to match the columns of a WordPress database, so I could import the data.

The only problem is that one of the columns from the custom database includes HTML. This is stopping the data from being imported into WordPress as a CSV. Is there any way to get around this? I really need to keep the HTML as I don’t want to have to restyle hundreds of rows again.

It’s taken a while to get the data into a format to manipulate in the first place.

p.s If I import the data without the HTML column it imports into WordPress fine.

Here’s an example:

ID,post_author,post_date,post_date_gmt,post_content,post_title,post_excerpt,post_status,comment_status,ping_status,post_password,post_name,to_ping,pinged,post_modified,post_modified_gmt,post_content_filtered,post_parent,guid,menu_order,post_type,post_mime_type,comment_count
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Answer 1

Ok in the csv file find replace

replace ' with \' \\will escape single quotes in the file

then
replace

"<p> with '<p> \\ to put the text field in single quotes

and then replace

</p>" with </p>' \\ to put the text field in single quotes

and then try importing…. it should work