Importing Categories

[William]

Is there any way to import a large amount of categories instead of adding each one individually?

[exodo]

@William said:

Is there any way to import a large amount of categories instead of adding each one individually?

just the names?

[William]

@exo-do
Just their names and their respective parent categories

[julian]

@William Take a look at the write-api plugin. It will let you programmatically create categories

[William]

@julian Thanks Julian this looks promising but I have had a problem generating a API token. I know that the write-api is compatible with v0.7 but do you know if it is compatible with v0.8.0.

[julian]

Sure is. If you're having trouble, paste the call you're trying to make in the form of a cURL command.

[William]

@julian On the git page it says that you must generate the first token by going to admin/plugins/write-api which I have tried but the page was not found I have also tried admin/extend/plugins/write-api. Any pointers?

[psychobunny]

You might have done this already, but you need to activate the plugin then restart the forum

[William]

Thanks for all the help, turns out it was because I hadn't installed the dependencies for write-api