{"id":22377,"date":"2016-06-26T13:08:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T13:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/?p=22377"},"modified":"2016-06-26T13:08:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T13:08:16","slug":"csv-tips-and-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/csv-tips-and-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"CSV Tips and Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Saving a CSV correctly<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>We regularly see CSV files that are saved with incorrect settings, for example they are not saved with <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>c<\/strong><\/span>omma <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">s<\/span><\/strong>eparated <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">v<\/span><\/strong>alues (CSV), but tab separated values, and then they look like this when opened:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"greenborder\" src=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/tips1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"294\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"greenborder\" src=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/tips2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"128\" \/><\/li>\n<li>To make sure you save your CSV file correctly, choose <em><strong>Save a copy<\/strong><\/em> from the<em><strong> File<\/strong><\/em> menu:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"greenborder\" src=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/tips3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"278\" \/><\/li>\n<li>In the next dialog box, tick<em><strong> Edit filter settings<\/strong><\/em> and then\u00a0<strong><em>Save<\/em><\/strong>:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"greenborder\" src=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/tips4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"169\" \/><\/li>\n<li>In the next dialog box, make sure you pick <em><strong>UTF-8<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0as character set and <em><strong>comma<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0as field delimiter:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"greenborder\" src=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/tips5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"288\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Your file should now look like this when opened as a comma delimited file:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"greenborder\" src=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/tips7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"291\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"greenborder\" src=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/tips6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"126\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saving a CSV correctly We regularly see CSV files that are saved with incorrect settings, for example they are not saved with comma separated values (CSV), but tab separated values, and then they look like this when opened: To make sure you save your CSV file correctly, choose Save a copy from the File menu: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/csv-tips-and-tricks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CSV Tips and Tricks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}