WP All Import – not importing logo or categories correctly

I have investigated the categories further.

I was using WP All Import’s standard feature for importing taxonomies for the categories. Then I saw that the section for GD import settings also contains fields for Category and Default Category so I have tried using these as well.

What I found is that the GD import settings do set the categories correctly on the WP admin edit page and the details page on the frontend BUT they do not set the categories correctly so they appear in the categories column when viewing all listings in WP admin. The WP All Import taxonomy import feature does the opposite!

So to import categories fully it appears that you have to use both the GD and WP All Import category fields.

I’ve got the categories working by specifying in both places as described above BUT still no success setting the logo.

You can do a completely bare-bones import to test this. Sample XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<data>
  <Listing>
    <Title>Test Listing</Title>
    <LogoURL>http://blah.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/logo.png</LogoURL>
  </Listing>
</data>

In WP All import you only need to configure the title and GD section logo fields. Obviously the URL above needs to point to a real image file.

This is into a CPT using the standard Company Logo field. If I then export the data using the standard GD CSV export I can see the logo field has been set to exactly the value entered, but the logo is not showing on the listing.

I tried adding 3 pipes as in the docs for a native GD import but that made no difference.

I think the problem is that GD only sets the value, it does not add an entry into the attachments table wp_geodir_attachments.