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YouTube embeds not working in WordPress after importing from Blogger

YouTube embeds not working in WordPress after import from Blogger I imported a series of blogger posts (via xml) into WordPress, and the YouTube embed tags were removed. YouTube URLs in posts are not identified. Instead, just the text of the url is left. Possibly as opposed to full embed tags. I'm trying to restore the embed codes so it's seen. Another fact that is notable in the XML import is that [EMBLED CONTENT] appears instead of the url, that is, the video... 5 Answers …by default, WordPress filters imported XML by removing possible troublesome tags…unfortunateely, including things like <embed> and <iframe> and other instances where you’ve included content in your posts. WordPress does so via a file you can find in /wp-includes called kses.php . In kses.php , you’ll want to scroll down to line 1309 and comment out the three lines under //Post filtering so that they look like this: // Post filtering #add_filter('content_save_pre', 'wp_filte...

How should a blog be structured to easily extract its data? I'm currently using Wordpress to run my website. However, with each new release I become more concerned with software bloat and the convoluted table structures used to store my data. Maybe this is a fruitless pursuit. Features are always added to blogging software until it claims to be a CMS - and at that point your data is probably stuck. 4 Answers You do have the option of sticking with the 2.0 branch. This will be maintained with just bug fixes until 2010. I also sometimes worry about the large changes WordPress undergoes. However, since all the important data (the posts themselves and the comments) are stored in a database, it does not seem difficult to extract them in case of need (moving to a different system, or just backup). Even if the table structure gets more complex, the MySQL DB WordPress uses is easy to access and extract data from. I'm sure that it is easy to find such extractors freely floating ...