Sillybean
Mass Format Conversion
This plugin applies all content filters to posts and comments and saves them back to the database. This is useful if you have been using Textile or Markdown (for example) and you want to switch to plain HTML.
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Great idea ! I was asking myself “and if Markdown plugin does not work anymore on my blog in the future…”
i just tried this plugin but didn
tricky: what version of PHP do you have, and do you know what the memory limit is on your server?
So, how exactly does this plugin work? I’ve activated it but I don’t see anywhere in the dashboard where I can run it and convert my data.
Never mind. Just saw it. Wasn’t where I expected it to be. Sorry!
OK. Me again.
I’m getting out of memory errors out the wazoo. I even did an init_set to increase memory to 512MB and it still gave a fatal error.
Thoughts?