How can I import historical website content? (Content Import)

Owned by Steve Ulrich (Deactivated)
Last updated: Apr 09, 2021

SoCast provides historical content import for 1 file per website during onboarding and prior to website launch.

For more information on historical content import contact your Client Success Onboarding Associate or SoCast Support at support@socastdigital.com

  • Only ‘Post’ Content (not pages) Imports are supported at this time

  • SoCast will not manually manipulate files- they must meet requirements as listed below

  • Files will be imported exactly as received/formatted

  • MP3/Audio Embeds will not be imported- Only text and images are supported

  • Files should contain no more than 10k posts at maximum

  • 1 Review will be provided to confirm file has been imported successfully

  • Content Imports must be fully completed/reviewed a minimum of 2 business days before your expected website launch date

In order to successfully import your historical content into the SoCast, we can only accept one of the following formats;

  1. 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)

  2. An XML Feed (RSS) Enabled URL for import (Sample file attached below for reference)

  3. 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.