Blogger to Wordpress, side order of Flickr

December 2, 2008 6:56 PM

Blogger to Wordpress conversion: I've imported all my old Blogger posts reasonably successfully, but I've got this extraneous html stuff on most of my posts. Is there a way to edit it out of every post at once?

The problem comes from the posts that display a Flickr image, which is most of them--around 400. Before every picture there is this bit of code for all to see:

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }

I don't really know anything about coding, but I'm assuming this this was meaningful in the Blogger template, and unneeded in Wordpress. At any rate, Wordpress isn't doing anything with it. I've manually deleted it out of twenty posts or so with no noticeable problems. But I'd rather not do that step by step another 380 times.

Is there some magical step that will clean up all the affected posts simultaneously?

posted by Pater Aletheias to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

If its that exact code every time do a global search and replace in the database by logging into mySQL.
posted by COD at 8:00 PM on December 2, 2008

Response by poster: That sounds great, but mySQL is deep in the valley of my ignorance. Is this something that a reasonably bright person who doesn't exactly know what mySQL is could figure out?
posted by Pater Aletheias at 10:40 PM on December 2, 2008

Try the Find and Replacer plugin or this tutorial by lorelle.
posted by Memo at 8:04 AM on December 3, 2008 [1 favorite]