I love cmsmadesimple and use it on all my sites. One drawback I find is that the process of creating individual pages slows me down - there is a lot of loading and refreshing going on.
Is there a way I could bulk create pages? I'm open to any possibility, am fairly strong technically. My general idea would be to create, say, 20 pages - page 1, page 2, page 3 so I would have structure and then can go back and change templates, or edit as needed.
Thanks!
Bulk Creation of Pages
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Re: Bulk Creation of Pages
Sorry, nothing currently exists for this. but it'd be a great idea for yet another module.
A module that would provide the following options:
It would also be nice if it trapped images in the html code, looked for them in the sub-directory, and then imported them appropriately into the CMS images directory.
That way, somebody could use wget to get a copy of a site, upload it via ftp to a temporary directory on the server, then import all of the pages in one shot.
It'd really really be nice
But I feel it's a considerable amount of work.
A module that would provide the following options:
- Allow you to specify a start page parent
- Allow you to specify a directory on the server
- Allow you to specify a page template
It would also be nice if it trapped images in the html code, looked for them in the sub-directory, and then imported them appropriately into the CMS images directory.
That way, somebody could use wget to get a copy of a site, upload it via ftp to a temporary directory on the server, then import all of the pages in one shot.
It'd really really be nice

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Re: Bulk Creation of Pages
The idea for a module sounds great, but like an involved undertaking.
Could I create pages with a script at the db level perhaps? Or - could I create a "standard" array of pages on a dev site and them import them each time - much like the option to install or not install the content pages that come with CMS, just customized for my purposes?
Thanks!
Could I create pages with a script at the db level perhaps? Or - could I create a "standard" array of pages on a dev site and them import them each time - much like the option to install or not install the content pages that come with CMS, just customized for my purposes?
Thanks!
Re: Bulk Creation of Pages
This would be done using the Backup Module, also used for moving sites...create a "standard" array of pages on a dev site and them import them each time
See... http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 376.0.html