[wp-hackers] Little problem while importing Wordpress.com WXR into regular wordpress installation...

[Charles Frees-Melvin]

Or when 2.9 comes out remove the [youtube] with the new embeds.

On 2009-12-06, at 4:59 AM, Joost de Valk wrote:

> Viper's Video Quick Tags would be of help here:
> 
> http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/
> 
> Although I don't know whether it supports that specific syntax, if it
> doesn't, you might have to change it to
> 
> [youtube]http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=VWE7oVKe2Ws[/youtube]
> 
> That's quite easily done using this plugin:
> 
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Cheers
> Joost
> 
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Davit Barbakadze <jayarjo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Wordpress.com let's users to embed youtube videos (and some others)
>> using following syntax:
>> 
>> [youtube=http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=VWE7oVKe2Ws]
>> 
>> Now when we did export from Wordpress.com and imported WXR into
>> regular wordpress installation, all we get in the post is that tag in
>> textual representation. No resolution into embed video happens. I
>> guess it's because regular wordpress doesn't support this syntax. Is
>> there any plugin that does mimic such behavior? Or any hack to turn
>> those tags into embeds?
>> 
>> I know it's possible to write a plugin, but maybe there already exists one?
>> 
>> --
>> Davit Barbakadze
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