I submitted my Instant Content Plugin to the WP repository today. It should be available in a few days.
I have been working on some of my websites, trying to bring them into the 21st century. Copying data from the old static pages to WordPress has been a pain so I made a way of loading pages from zipped files containing text. The plugin reads the zip and loads the text files into pages. The first line of every file is the title of the page.
I find it easy to use notepad++ to edit a hundred HTML pages at a time and do global replaces to get rid of the headings, footers, sidebars, ads and other crap that has accumulated in these pages. It then takes second to load the new pages.
I am including a database of 325 business letters from one of my defunct sites.
Other databases that I happen to have are:
Cancer terms – 4300 one line definitions of cancer terms
Astrology dictionary – 980 short definitions of Astrology terms
Bread Recipes – 3600 bread recipes
Chocolate Recipes – 160 recipes for all things chocolate.
Patent Dictionary – 500 patent terms.
Jokes – 900 jokes, most offensive to women, fat people, short people, ethnic groups, religious groups, or people with good taste (This content is guaranteed to generate huge traffic from people who don’t buy anything).
There are other collections. My favorite is an old dream book that has a few hundred interpretations of dreams. There are potentially profitable ones like diet, fitness, drug dictionary, cosmetic surgery, insurance and a dictionary of HUD lending terms. There thousands of recipes. There is a file of 60,000 pop song lyrics that I will break out someday by artist.
I have yet to convert these other databases and I may never get around to it, but let me know what you are interested in.
I have a bunch ready to go. All you need is to create a zip of content text files. The first line is the page or post title. The rest of the text file is the body. There should be a file called “title” which will be used as the heading in the created child page and/or the category of the posts.
There is the Sinatra Lyrics db that has about 450 Sinatra songs. I envision people making Fridays of every week “Sinatra Day” by loading these as posts using the plugin.
When I get back into the office I’ll list the ones that I have.
I was wondering if I should charge for any of them. Some might be commercial enough to generate a few sales. I don’t have high hopes though.
I downloaded the IMDB file library. I was going to make dbs like “Romantic Comedies of the 1930s” or “Cinema Noir” with several hundred movies, plots and reviews. in each one for people who wanted to create a blog with a movie review a day.
I’d love to see some of your other Db’s converted. Are you working on a way for us to use our own zipped files too?
I’m a web developer and marketer and could help you with this if you’re interested. Let me know
~John Melanson
https://johnmelanson.info