CIO Custom Fields Importer

TL;DR This plugin enables ongoing data feed to PODS custom fields. Pro version supports all content types of PODS and can look up related item IDs during import.

Are you a business owner looking for an affordable high performance database solution to bring your business to the next level?

Have you got a good looking website but spent too much time keeping the products, articles, blogs, contents accurate and updated?

Are you a developer planning a new high performance website with many records to update frequently, or migrating many contents to WordPress?

CIO Custom Fields Importer is part of the solution you are looking for. It is possibly one of the most useful plugins that business owners, managers, website owners and developers should keep in the tool box, and it can help to create high performance heavy duty content management system (CMS) with automatic data feeding.

CIO Custom Fields Importer is an add-on plugin linking the following two powerful tools together in delivering an efficient and affordable high performance solution for small and medium businesses.

• PODS. PODS is a free, simple, flexible and powerful CMS framework designed for high performance with large data sets. You can use PODS to extend content types with custom fields, or create custom content types of your own. PODS unleashes the power of WordPress in creating highly customised and optimised CMS.

One of the distinct features of PODS is multiple select bi-directional relationship. Suppose you have two custom post types (“author” and “book”), with some books written by a few authors together. You set up multiple select bi-directional field, and in the “book” custom post type you update authors. When you open the “author” custom posts of each author, the books written by the author are automatically displayed. This feature is cool, isn’t it? Especially this is done using a graphical user interface to set up fields and templates without any programming, even by people without programming experience.

• WP All Import. WP All Import is a well developed tool to handle imports from larger XML and CSV files. The free version of WP All Import comes with logging, detection of duplicate records, and templates for future imports and updates, and allows you to import to standard WordPress fields (title, content, slug, categories etc).

The free version of CIO Custom Fields Importer allows you to import to custom fields in custom posts created or extended with PODS. The pro version of CIO Custom Fields Importer enables you to import to all PODS content types (including PODS advanced content types), and content types (objects) created with other plugins, such as

• WordPress users (importing meta fields and assigning role by each usesr)

• WooCommerce customers with meta fields

• WordPress comments

CIO Custom Fields Importer pro version uses WP All Import for data parsing, and PODS API and/or native APIs to import data to fields created by other plugins. Once data has been imported, the import plugins can be deactivated until the next update or import, if the custom fields are created with other plugins. There is no overhead to website performance.

CIO Custom Fields Importer (free and pro version) uses native PODS API to save data, and supports all PODS field types. The free version supports single select relationship fields with known item ids. The pro version handles multiple select fields, and auto matching items on a live site.

Together with Pods and WP All Import, CIO Custom Fields Importer provides a simple and easy way to build a high performance website, import large data sets and manage ongoing updates from external data sources.

Accurate and timely website information is crucial to some professions, such as property developers and real estate agents. Mistakes are costly. With CIO Custom Fields Importer, the principal or person in charge can review information before uploading to the website reducing chances of errors.

If you are a developer, you will LOVE PODS framework for fast delivery of feature rich CMS solutions, and your customers will LOVE you because CIO Custom Fields Importer together with WP All Import saves them hours, days, even years of time accumulatively when they use your system to manage contents. You can also use CIO Custom Fields Importer Professional Edition to import to other contents created with other plugins. This will save you hours even days of development time.

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