Automatically create image and video posts in Wordpress from a directory tree of images and videos.
Specifiy a MediaRoot in createposts.cfg and for each directory in the text file referenced in TitlesList wordpress posts are created, collated by the hour for all pictures and videos found. The post date is taken from the file modified date, the post title from the directory title and the tags and categories from _tags.txt and _cats.txt files within each directory.
The TitlesList file should have directory names once-per-line and wordpress credentials placed in the cfg file. Pictures and videos should already be in a location serviced by MediaRootURL/dir-name . Image dimensions are placed in a title element of the http link. Videos are inserted into posts using the [video] short-code.
Some assumptions are currently hard-coded, such as the html string used and thumbnail size/suffix.
Requires python 2.x
python createposts.py --site=[all|site-name] --title=[all|dir-name] --date=[all|inc] [--version]
Specifiy which wordpress site to post to; references the section in createposts.cfg
Specify a single directory / title to create posts from, or specificy all in which the list specifcied in TitlesList is used.
Upload all pictures found regardless of file modified timestamp or upload incrementally from when the script was lastrun.
Configure each site under its own [section] , general options are in [createposts]
###General options ####Thumbnails
Create thumbnails with the (currently) hard-coded suffix and size of -150x150. Aspect ratio is maintained.
####UsePhoton
Sets the thumbnail image link to the image itself, allowing Wordpress to rewrite links to image.jpg?fit=width%2Cheight based on your media settings in Settings > Media. Photon must be enabled on your site for this to work correctly.
###Site options
####TitleList
One directory-per-line list of directories to iterate through within the MediaRoot location when searching for images to post, each post will use the directory name as the post title.
####WPxmlrpcUrl
xmlrpcul of your wordpress site for creating posts, this must be accessable from the script and enabled.
###WPUser
Wordpress username with author permission or higher.
###WPPass
Wordpress password for the above acc.
###MediaRoot
Media root location to iterate through when searching for images to post, eg. /var/www/example.com/pics/
###MediaRootURL
Media root URL to prefix onto image locations in posts. This url should reference the location in MediaRoot, eg. http://www.example.com/pics/