SoCast provides historical content import for 1 file per website during onboarding and prior to website launch.
For more information on historical content import contact your Client Success Onboarding Associate or SoCast Support at support@socastdigital.com
SoCast will not manually manipulate files
Files will be imported exactly as received
MP3/Audio Embeds will not be imported- Only text and images are supported
1 Review will be provided to confirm file has been imported successfully
In order to successfully import your historical content into the SoCast, we can only accept one of the following formats;
Wordpress Export XML file (you may wish to use this simple extension to export from you previous Wordpress website https://wordpress.org/plugins/export-media-with-selected-content/ ) (Sample export file attached for reference)
An XML Feed (RSS) Enabled URL for import (Sample file attached below for reference)
XML File formatted to the specific format below
In either case for #2 or #3, the HTML data must be encapsulated in CDATA sections :
(As explained here : https://www.tutorialspoint.com/xml/xml_cdata_sections.htm)
The term CDATA means, Character Data. CDATA is defined as blocks of text that are not parsed by the parser, but are otherwise recognized as markup.