I imported a series of blog posts from blogger to WordPress, and the YouTube embed tags were stripped away. Now I just have the YouTube URLs in the posts, as opposed to the complete embed tags. I am trying to restore the embed codes.
A:
This all really depends on HOW you imported the blog posts. What was your method?
When you view the raw source of the posts in wordpress (plain text view) - what does the post look like (a copy of the HTML would be nice)
-- Note - edit your original post to give the answers, a reply doesn't really work if other people answer too.
Mez
2008-09-21 18:29:57
+1
A:
I think you have a couple of options here:
- You could undo the import and re-import using another means, from RSS for instance. The value of this depends on how much effort you have in the posts as they are in WordPress now - are you willing to dump the posts and try again?
- You go to the forums, post a bug in trac, go to the IRC channel and try to find some more information; you're apparently not the only person to have this problem (unless, of course, that's you)
- if you have db access you could update the posts table to add the appropriate code back in.
- you could manually re-add the embed codes (obviously).
How many posts are we talking about?
cori
2008-09-22 02:09:37
A:
When I moved from blogger to wordpress my YouTube videos moved over just fine. Martin is right, a view of the post source code is probably required to be helpful.
One thing to note on a side issue though. When you use the wordpress "blogger importer" the image links will not be updated. When you view your blog everything will look ok, but in fact the images will still be referencing the blogger site.
There is a plugin on wordpress.org that will help with this, but some manual updating may / will be required for a 100% perfect move.
I think this is the one I used.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogger-image-import/
Cheers Stephen
Stephen Baugh
2009-01-28 01:37:31