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+##How to import multiple pages into Bludit
+
+###Overview
+
+1. create a folder for each page
+2. move each page into its respective folder and rename each page to index.txt
+3. update ./bl-content/databases/pages.php
+
+### Create a folder for each page
+1. This will depend on what your source files look like. In the worst example, here is exporting from a different CMS where the data was in a MySQL database. Using sql, extract two text files. The first is the title of each page (called products in the script below). The second is the content, called productdescriptions. Each title or page from the old CMS is represented as a row in the two text files. Below is a short python script to convert the rows to pages
+```#!/usr/bin/env python3
+n=1
+nstr="1"
+nfpath="~/Documents/projects/python/newproducts"+nstr
+nf=open(nfpath+".txt",'w')
+f=open('~/Documents/projects/python/productdescriptions.txt')
+line=f.readline()
+while line:
+	if line[0:2].isdigit():
+		nf.close()
+		n=n+1
+		nstr=str(n)
+		nfpath='~/Documents/projects/python/newproducts' + nstr
+		nf=open(nfpath+".txt",'w')
+	nf.write(line)
+	line=f.readline()
+f.close()
+nf.close()
+```
+
+All the files need to be renamed to the name of the products. The name of the product was in the first line of each page, so could be extracted using the script below, limiting the name length to 20 characters.
+```#!/usr/bin/env python3
+n=2
+x=1
+nstr="2"
+while n<78:
+	fpath="~/Documents/projects/python/newproducts"+nstr
+	f=open(fpath+".txt",'r')
+	line=f.readline()
+	tmpline=line[5:]
+	newname=''.join(e for e in tmpline if e.isalnum())
+	if len(newname)>20:	newname=newname[:20]
+	nfpath="~/Documents/projects/python/"+newname+".html"
+	nf=open(nfpath,'w')
+	while line:
+		nf.write(line)
+		line=f.readline()
+	f.close()
+	nf.close()
+	n=n+1
+	nstr=str(n)
+```
+The file names may need to be up with a bulk file renaming tool (e.g. GPRename) to remove blank spaces, caps, etc.
+
+2. Make a directory listing of the pages into a text file (ls>dir.txt) and open the dir.txt file in a spreadsheet. 
+Column A as the file names
+Column B as the product name: ```=LEFT(A2,FIND(".",A2)-1)```
+Column C as the command for making a directory: ```="mkdir "&B2```
+Column D as the command for moving the pages to their respective directories: ```="mv ./"&A2&" ./"&B2&"/"```
+Column E as the command to rename the pages:``` ="mv ./"&B2&"/"&A2&" ./"&B2&"/index.txt"```
+
+Create a blank text file
+on the first line, put:  #!/bin/sh
+copy and paste column B after that 
+repeat the copying and pasting for columns C, D & E
+save the file and made it executable: ```chmod u+x ./filename```
+run the file
+The filestructure is now correct and can be moved to the directory bludit/bl-content/pages/
+
+3. Using the same spreadsheet in 2, Column F gave the database entry: ```="'"&B2&"':{'title':'"&B2&"','description':'"&B2&"','username':'admin','tags':[],'type':'static','date':'2020-04-24 14:43:37','datemodified':'','allowcomments':true,'position':1,'coverimage':'','md5file':'','category':'general','uuid':'','parent':'','template':'','noindex':false,'nofollow':false,'noarchive':false},"```
+Copy all the columns into a text file and replace the single quotes with double quotes (i.e. change ' to ")
+Open bl-content/database/pages.php
+The file ends with :false}}
+Between the second-last brace and the last brace, copy and paste the text from the text file, taking care to remove the comma off the last entry between the final two braces. Although the file is a single line when you open it, Bludit does not mind if there are linebreaks between each entry.
+
+4. Now when you open your Bludit admin page and look under Content, you'll see the pages under Static.
+