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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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9 Responses to “Mass Format Conversion”

  1. Li-An says:
    February 4, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    Great idea ! I was asking myself “and if Markdown plugin does not work anymore on my blog in the future…”

  2. tricky says:
    February 10, 2009 at 10:46 pm

    i just tried this plugin but didn

  3. Stephanie says:
    February 19, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    tricky: what version of PHP do you have, and do you know what the memory limit is on your server?

  4. Jeremy Fuksa: Creative Generalist says:
    November 18, 2009 at 10:54 am

    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.

  5. Jeremy Fuksa: Creative Generalist says:
    November 18, 2009 at 10:55 am

    Never mind. Just saw it. Wasn’t where I expected it to be. Sorry!

  6. Jeremy Fuksa: Creative Generalist says:
    November 18, 2009 at 11:23 am

    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?

  7. Li-An says:
    October 14, 2010 at 8:19 am

    Hello,
    I’ve just tried to apply your plugin on a WP 3.0.1 test installation but I’ve got a lot of “Problem with post #95. You should check it manually.” Do you think it should work in WP 3.0.1 ?

    • steph says:
      October 14, 2010 at 8:41 am

      Yes, it’s working as intended in 3.0.1. That message simply means that there’s something unusual about that particular post, and you need to take a look at it rather than trusting the converter to get things right.

      The converter is not very good at handling non-English characters, so if you have a lot of them, that’s probably the cause.

  8. Li-An says:
    October 14, 2010 at 3:49 pm

    As I’m french, it could be the problem but I did understand what I missed. As I had desactivated Markdown plugin, all the posts using the syntax gave problem. After reactivating the plugin, there is no error message. Cool ! But it does seem to work :-( Not cool…

    See this example:http://www.li-an.fr/blogtest/blog/2010/09/25/alternate-images/

    I activatated Markdown, launch Mass Conversion. Everyting is OK. I desactivate Markdown… and no html :-( as you can see.
    Did I miss something ?