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

[Mike Schinkel]

Charles,

Take a look at:

	http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-youtube/

From it's "main features" list:

-- Supports migrated blogs from Wordpress.com replacing [youtube=youtubeadresss]

HTH.

Mike Schinkel

that supports the same syna
On Dec 6, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Davit Barbakadze wrote:

> Thank you Joost, Charles. But your solution doesn't help, since I
> still need to replace those tags in each and every post to support new
> syntax.
> 
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/ plugin is
> good, but I don't think that it supports regular expressions, does it?
> Otherwise how I can do a healthy substitution of the tag in question?
> 
> I just can't believe that I'm first one to encounter this problem.
> Someone should have hit this wall before. Many times.
> 
> Ok, I'll just write a filter and use
> http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/
> 
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Charles Frees-Melvin <charles at cefm.ca> wrote:
>> 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?
>>>> 
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