[wp-testers] Export bugs

[Dougal Campbell]

On May 9 2010 12:33 PM, Walter Jeffries wrote:
> [...]
> Life is not so good in WP Land. A lot of posts and comments were lost. 
> Since the import from blogger worked fine I suspect that the problem 
> is on the export side. But I did change from 3.0b1 to 3.0b2 between 
> those imports so no guarantees.
> [...]

As Glenn Ansley suggested, it might be that the import timed out before 
finishing. If that's the case, you can try re-importing the same file 
again. The import process will skip over previously imported posts, and 
then pick up where it left off. You might even try to determine about 
where it stopped, and just save out the missing portion of the export 
file, and import that.

> After posting that I found another problem with the exporter in 3.0b2. 
> It is stripping my code from posts and modifying other code. Naughty. 
> For example, I had:
>
> <center><img 
> src="http://SugarMtnFarm.com/blog/uploaded_images2009/PinkPiggyPalace0064w.jpg" 
> /><small><i>Foam Insulation Inside Forms</i></small></center>
>
> On exporting WP changed my post to look like this:
>
> <img 
> src="http://SugarMtnFarm.com/blog/uploaded_images2009/PinkPiggyPalace0064w.jpg" 
> alt="" /><br />
> <em>Foam Insulation Inside Forms</em>
>
> It stripped my HTML center and changed my i (italic) to em. I like i 
> better. It also stripped my small tags. This does not give the same 
> look to my pages. I want my pictures centered, my subtitles in smaller 
> type and italicized. The export should not be stripping code.
>
> Even if center and i are depreciated WP should still not be stripping 
> them without permission since it changes the look and content.
> [...]

By default, WordPress attempts to force content to be XHTML-compliant 
(and now with movement towards HTML5). In particular, the kses filters 
are applied on the 'content_save_pre' filter hook, and this is where the 
'center' and 'small' tags are getting stripped. Off the top of my head, 
I'm not sure where the 'i' tags are being converted to 'em', maybe in 
TinyMCE? You can probably find plugins to override this behavior.

The philosophical discussion around not allowing presentational markup 
such as 'center', 'small' tags and 'i' versus 'em' is beyond the scope 
of this list. :)

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