re-importing issues

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  • #60685

    Steve
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    I do not know how to clean in in the “database” so that is a no go…
    I will have to work harder… how do I merge the locations?
    Since I see this is a gigantic mess in location it is also a mess in SEO as well. How do I correct the SEO area?

    #60756

    Paolo
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    Hi,

    you can see instructions here: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/faqs/how-do-i-merge-locations/

    You will need to create the correct location for each wrong location in order to merge it.

    So if you have :

    United States – CA – Los Angeles

    You must create 1st:

    United States – California – Los Angeles

    Than merge them.

    If you wish to try and do this directly in your database, you could try using a tool like this:

    https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

    In that case you would install the tool, search for CA in all tables and replace it with California.

    I believe it will take you less time.

    Once you managed to clean up the location, we can worry about the seo settings.

    Let us know how you went.

    Thanks

    #60784

    Steve
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    Thank you kindly. I will keep you informed and I have learned a valuable lesson.

    #60785

    Paolo
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    Post count: 31206

    You are welcome 🙂 Good luck!

    #61167

    Steve
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    This search and replace is beyond my understanding currently. I am going to wipe the entires manually all 6k of them. What a waste of time…

    Since this is only the first major import of CPT and no one has claimed them it is faster to delete / trash all 6000, correct the Regions field and upload again.

    Valuable lesson learned. One I hope I do not have to repeat.

    I did reach out the the developers of the Search and Replace to obtain an estimate.

    Time is the problem.. I cannot wait two days to get some kind of an answer from them and then two days later decide if I can afford it. I can just delete and start over within a couple of hours.

    Kind regards and thank you for your support.

    SEO is taken care of.. Wordfence was the culprit.

    #61171

    Steve
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    SEO.. I was thinking about why my home page would not be indexed by google. I did not mean SEO is taken care of… after I delete the CPT listings for Bars I will view the SEO area and see it I ahve to manually delete the State / Regions abbreviations manually also. Kind regards,

    #61535

    Steve
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    Hello again. So I deleted the entire CPT post and started from scratch. I can get the GD to acknowledge the data but it still will not import. I have gone through each column.

    I believe it may be a “date” format issue. Is this possible? What day, month, year format are we suppose to use or does it even make a difference?

    for example.. should it be Year/Month/Day? or Year-Month-Day or Day/Month/Year or Day-Month-Year. going on week five now.. this import issue is startling.

    I have been saving the file / filter as Western Euro latin. I am going to try the utf8 and see if that gets it done. Comma delimit3ed.

    #61536

    Steve
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    Ok.. I may have found the problem. In the CPT settings for Night Clubs the “column” geodir_video” is only in the CPT settings once!

    When I export a Night Club .csv the “geodir_video” has “two” columns. Is this a glitch?

    #61578

    Paolo
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    Post count: 31206

    Hi,

    I’d need to install the plugin database browser to have a look at your db tables.

    Could you please install it or give us credentials of a super admin so we can proceed?

    Let us know,

    Thanks

    #61589

    Steve
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    Paolo
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