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Pinterest Importer
Backup your Pinterest.com account by importing pins in Wordpress. Supports regular boards, secret boards and followed boards.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.3★ from 15
- Active installs
- 30+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 4 Jun 2019
- Added
- Apr 2014
- Requires WP
- 3.5
- Tested up to
- WP 5.2.26
- Downloads
- 10,750
Our analysis
AI-assistedPinterest Importer is a WordPress plugin that connects to your Pinterest account to import all your pins, including those from secret and followed boards. It allows for a complete backup of your pins, rather than just a limited selection, and uses a custom post type for better integration with themes.
The plugin supports both image and video pins, downloads original HD images, and can be used continuously without duplicating imports. It also allows you to assign categories to your boards and handles hashtags by converting them into post tags.
Best for: This plugin is suitable for WordPress users looking to back up and display their Pinterest content.
What it does well
- ✓Imports pins from regular, secret, and followed boards
- ✓Downloads original HD images
- ✓Uses a custom post type for theme compatibility
- ✓Allows ongoing use without duplicate imports
- ✓Handles hashtags and converts them to post tags
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in June 2019, may not be fully compatible with newer WordPress versions
- •Relies on a method that may break in the future
- •Limited support and feature requests handled through forums
Verdict
Pinterest Importer offers a straightforward way to import and manage Pinterest pins within WordPress, but users should be aware of its potential limitations and lack of recent updates.
From the developer
grosbouff's own description of Pinterest Importer, lightly tidied.
Pinterest Importer allows you to connect to your Pinterest.com account; to grab all your pins (including from secret and optionnally followed boards); and to import them in WordPress.
The difference with other plugins is that it is not based on the (very limited) official Pinterest API; which also requires SSL.
This means that you can make a full backup (instead of getting only the last x pins); but it also means the plugin may broke one day or another.
Better use it quick !
- Nice GUI
- Uses a custom post type, which makes it easy to use specific theme templates or capabilities, etc.
- Get pins from regular boards, secret boards and followed boards (optional).
- Assign a WordPress category to each of your board (or let us handle it automatically)
- Supports both image & video pins; and sets automatically the corresponding post format
- Downloads original HD images from pins.
- Can be used on an ongoing basis : pins will not be imported several times
- Backup & display the pin metadatas in a metabox
- Set pin creation date as post date
- Handles hashtags, which are converted to post tags
- Cache pins in a JSON file for every board
Donate!
It truly took me a LOT of time to code this plugin.
If it saved you the time to backup manually a few hundred (or more!) pins, please consider converting this time into a donation.
This would be very appreciated — Thanks !
Instruction
- Go to Pins -> Pinterest Account
- Follow the steps
- Enjoy !
Contributors
- seregazhuk for the (nice!) php-pinterest-bot library
- Other contributors are listed here
Notes
For feature request and bug reports, please use the forums.
If you are a plugin developer, we would like to hear from you. Any contribution would be very welcome.
To do
- use wp_update_term_count() ? seems posts count for categories is not updated.
- add source in post content should be optional
- a trashed pin should not be considered existing ?
- use some ajax functions (Pinterest queries, etc.)
- bug when creating ‘pinim_boards_settings’ : last board settings are not saved, so it is detected as new board when the page refreshes.
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