Process for export posts content from WordPress site (Foto DNG magazine site) to InDesing for magazine creation.

1. Foto DNG, from
WordPress to InDesign
Second Part, New Products & News/Events

2. Process new Foto DNG magazine
Every portfolio and tutorial in Foto DNG magazine
are layered “by hand”, from scratch, without
automation, but there is tree sections benefiting
totally or partially from automation
● Foto DNG Group in Flickr (previous slides)
● New Products (this slides)
● News & Events (this slides)

3. New Products and News/Events

4. New Products and News/Events
● Process is made in Foto DNG server with a custom made
plug-in for WordPress that also has all functions for the
magazine.
● All Press Releases are published in category Novedades
(News Products) in Foto DNG web.
● Novedades has a custom field with name nombre_marca
with brand name in his value.
● This field is used for sort Novedades by brand name.

5. New Products and News/Events
● News and Events are published in category
Noticias/Eventos in Foto DNG web.
● Without custom field, Noticias/Eventos will be sort by
published date.
● Every post published in WordPress will be sent to Social
Media since option Sharing with WordPress JetPack plug-
in.
● We create a schedule with different hours (readers from
Europe, America ...) in Buffer.

6. New Products and News/Events
● We create a task in Zappier for every Buffer account
(four), this task check Foto DNG RSS and if found new
entries, send it to Buffer (that publish it in scheduled
hours).
● We don’t use IFTTT because Buffer option in IFTTT only
permit use one account.
● Next (published or programmed in Novedades &
Noticias/Eventos) we proceed to export from WordPress
to InDesign, with our plug-in.

7. New Products and News/Events
● In plug-in we select category to export and date range (by
default from first month day in current month to last month
day).
● Once exported text file (InDesign Tagged Text) from
WordPress, in InDesign we go to text box in correct section
and import tagged text.
● In Novedades section, then add images.
● And process ended with sections Novedades and
Noticias/Eventos formatedd.

8. Export from WordPress to InDesign
Publish or program new
post, in Novedades
category we add custom
field with his value (brand
name)

9. Export from WordPress to InDesign
When is published, will be
sent to Social Media with
Sharing option by JetPack

10. Export from WordPress to InDesign
In Buffer we
configure
Social Media
Accounts and
Publication
Schedules

11. Export from WordPress to InDesign
We create Zapier
tasks for every
Buffer account,
that will find new
RSS entries and
will be send to
Buffer

12. Export from WordPress to InDesign
From WordPress plug-in we
select category and date
range and then generate
tagged text file

13. Export from WordPress to InDesign
From InDesign select
exported tagged text file to
import

14. Export from WordPress to InDesign
And in InDesign we obtain
formatted text with
Paragraph and Character
Styles, then we add images
and review section

15. Plug-in for WordPress export
● We create a form with drop down select for sections and two date
fields (type="date" for show us a calendar): $dia_desde='01';
$mes_desde=date('m'); $anhio_desde=date('Y'); $bisiesto=date('L'); $dia_hasta=date('t') +
$bisiesto; $mes_hasta=date('m'); $anhio_hasta=date('Y');
● This plug-in create a Paragraph and Character definition style
predefined in InDesign template.
● We make a query to WordPress database with selected
parameters, and we receive published and programmed posts in
selected date range and category, ordered by custom field.

16. Plug-in for WordPress export
$args = array(
'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'meta_value', 'meta_key' => 'nombre_marca',
'date_query'=> array(
array(
'after' => array('year' => $anhio_desde, 'month' => $mes_desde, 'day' => $dia_desde,),
'before'=> array('year' => $anhio_hasta, 'month' => $mes_hasta, 'day' => $dia_hasta,),
'inclusive' => true,
),
),
'cat' => $cat,
'post_status' => array('publish', 'future'),
'posts_per_page' => $n_post_volcar,
);
query_posts( $args );//We make the query to DB

17. Plug-in for WordPress export
Walk through result posts (while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();) and
process:
● Obtain title with get_the_title, content with get_the_content and
post link with get_permalink.
● We delete shortcodes with strip_shortcodes
● We replace double carriage return to <p></p> with wpautop
● We delete HTML tags with wp_kses except allowed tags defined
in a array.
● We change to Smart Quotes with wptexturize.
● We delete empty spaces, empty paragraphs and clean texts.

18. Plug-in for WordPress export
● We change characters for his UNICODE equivalents for
InDesign ® to <0x00AE> or ñ to <0x00F1> (array with 53
equivalences at this moment).
● We change HTML tags to InDesign tags and predefined
estyles <b> to <cTypeface:Bold> and </b> to <cTypeface:
> or <h1> to <ParaStyle:articulos:titular>.
● We create content with title, content and link formatted.
● We dump result content to a text file for import in InDesign
news_2014-02-01-to-2014-02-28.txt

19. Advantages obtained
● Novedades and Noticias y Eventos will be published in
web and Social Media.
● Export process from WordPress and import in
InDesign, is made in less than two minutes.
● Final layout review and images added will be made in
less than two hours (several actions saved for images
in Photoshop).

20. Thanks by reading this slides:
http://www.fotodng.com/foto-dng-de-wordpress-
a-indesign-parte-2-2917.html
Carlos Longarela.
Foto DNG Magzine
http://www.fotodng.com
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