Batch page creation

Hi guys
I am trying to create 200+ pages for our communities in my city.
I had been able to do this using Visual Composer in the past, where i would grab their shortcodes and just edit the text as needed using my own shortcodes.

This seems to work for the most part, however if i use the text editor to re-create these pages and just change the name of communities and try to make changes to the text files, it breaks and spits out weird characters, specifically when using TAGDIV’s Inline text block, ie:

[tdm_block_inline_text description=”The Bonavista community newsletter has strong and consistent readership el_class=”newsletter-description”]

The text output like so:
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What i dont understand is why your shortcode actually looks like this on wordpress text editor:
[tdm_block_inline_text description=”JTNDZGl2JTIwaWQlM0QlMjJuZXdzbGV0dGVyLWJhbm5lciUyMiUyMHN0eWxlJTN” display_inline=”yes” tdc_css=”eyJhbGwiOnsid2lkdGgiOiIyMTUiLCJkaXNwbGF5IjoiIn19″]

Is it getting hashed/salted somehow before outputting the html?

Is there a way i can use just “plain text” in these inline text blocks? Can you please help me?

Is there perhaps a better way to batch create these pages? All pages will have the same structure, ad at the top, a side bar, pdf link and paragraph of magazine, a news block section about that community, the “archive” of past editions, a quick section on the community association, the demographics and nearby publications.

I dont want to do these manually using TD composer, can you help me figure this one out? If i am able to do these via shortcodes it will make things a lot easier for me.

• This topic was modified 8 years by Freddy Meynard.

I think it might be because it am trying to use html tags that contain quotes and brackets in them, hmmm.

Question, i see that there are you can save shortcodes within TD composer…is there a way to setup a page as a template?