I have a huge website, with thousands of pages. It’s a reference site, with a page for every country, each U.S. state, every species of mammal, etc.
I’ve tried WordPress on some smaller sites and love it. Now I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way to convert my reference site to WordPress.
So here’s my first question. If I replace this site with WordPress, is there some way I could automate page creation? For example, let’s say I want to create 250 pages for countries and 50 pages for U.S. states. Rather than create each page one at a time, I’d like to just push a button and let WordPress instantly create 300 pages, each with a specific title, URL and channel (Nation vs State).
Is there a way to do this?
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Method 1
Where is the content coming from? You can easily write PHP code that will create pages, but the content has to come from somewhere.
If the content already exists, say in a database that you own, then you can code a process to take the data from a table/record and convert it into a post/page.
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