Dear Newimproved Plan Resonate Reader,

Experiencing minor technical difficulties from upgrading WordPress. Stop.

Dear WordPress PR Minions and Blog Scraper Bots,

Thank you for your wonderful new release including the fabulous fix on xmlrpc.php. I’ve been using wordpress for some time and I can honestly say I’ve never enjoyed xmlrpc.php more.

Unfortunately, during the upgrade process, one of your scripts took the opportunity to revisit the careful formatting used in all of my previous posts. We’ve got a small problem.

This description might not be technically accurate – the problem looks as though the visual post editing engine is designed to replace some special characters with their visual counterparts, by default. As a result, my blockquotes are now all broken.

The database now serves all my previous “<blockquote>”s as “<blockquote>”s.

The < and > symbols have been replaced with their visual counterparts.

Presumably there are some cases where this character replacement during upgrade trick would be great. In my case it’s a real drag… I depend on the handy blockquote feature to puff up all my posts. The solution appears to be to go back through each post, enter code view mode, and replace all instances of < & >!

If you could please forward this message to a volunteer tech support person – whomever is tasked with making my free software fun and blockquote friendly – that would be convenient. I can be reached via the email.

Thanks for your help.

Warm regards,

Jeffrey Osborne

UPDATE: Forgot that I’d made a backup. Theoretically I should be able to import all my old posts with the proper html. Will try it sometime soon and report… Nope, giving up on importing the posts and going through each post manually. Fun… Not too much work. The only negatively affected posts were ones written since a certain date. I’m guessing that was the date of the previous upgrade to 2.3.

[tags]WordPress 2.3.3[/tags]