- This plugin allows you to import the users as authors and blogs as Articles in your WordPress site.
- It imports the users and blogs from an external site using API.
Here is the workflow about how the plugin works:
- The plugin creates a custom post type named as "Articles".
- This "Articles" custom post type has only three fields:
- Title
- Description
- Author
- To import the users or blogs into your WordPress site, visit the submenu "Fetch Users & Articles" [ Articles > Fetch Users & Articles ].
- When you click on the button "Fetch Users", the plugin extracts the data at https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users using API.
- Then, it imports the users into your WordPress site as Authors.
- The following standard WordPress fields related to user are populated by this plugin:
- Username
- Display Name
- It also populates the following custom user fields created by the plugin itself:
- Address Street
- Address Suit
- Address City
- Address Pincode
- Phone
- Company Name
- Website
- When you click on the button "Fetch Articles", the plugin extract the data at https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts using API.
- It imports the blogs as Articles into your WordPress site.
- It assigns all of the newly created Articles to one of the authors imported after you clicked on the "Fetch Users" button.
- If there is no author imported earlier, it assigns all Articles to admin itself.
- It populates the following fields in the Articles custom post type:
- Title
- Description
- Author