Importing golf courses

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The lesson covers setting up a WordPress site for a golf course directory, including data preparation, custom fields, post types, importing data, and creating dynamic shortcodes for displaying course information.

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Introduction to WordPress and Data Preparation

Before diving into WordPress, it's important to mention the data preparation steps taken. A slug column has been added for both the golf course and the state/city in the dataset. This addition provides more control over internal linking when creating archive pages, such as state-specific pages.

Slug Generation

For those without coding experience, tools like WTools can be used as a slug generator:

  1. Copy lines from your CSV
  2. Generate slugs
  3. Copy the resulting output back into a new column in Excel

While Python was used in this case, WTools offers a no-code alternative for...

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