One of the greatest strengths of the NichePress plugin is the ability to define and import metadata for listings. As with the listing data itself, you import metadata via CSV files. To do this, your CSV file must have a column containing the listing IDs. The listing ID is needed to tie the metadata to its listing.
Meta data can be imported from up to 9 different CSV files. To define a piece of metadata you must enter, at a minimum, the file number the data is contained in, the column number of the data, and a variable name.
Variable names may not contain spaces or braces ({}). Use the underscore character to make variable names more readable. Variable names are case sensitive (all lower case letters are recommended).
The title and description fields are optional. Both the title field and the description field can be used in templates by appending _title and _description to the variable name (e.g., {var1_title} and {var2_description}).
Once you have entered your CSV file name(s) and defined your variables, you can save your configuration by clicking on the “Save Data Definitions” button.
After uploading your CSV file(s) into ../plugins/nichepress/admin/import/ you are ready to import.
To import your metadata, click on the “import” link in the Directory Name column. The import page will show you all of your import options, including your metadata.
Click the button for the metadata file you want to import and follow the prompts. The import function will delete all existing metadata for the file you are importing before importing the contents of your CSV file.