Blogger title and characters import problems

The reason why the code is being used as the title is because that isn’t really the title. If a blogger post does not have a title then it takes the first few words (or first line) of the post to make a title. WordPress doesn’t do that and the import doesn’t recognize that.

I wonder if the import could be “improved” to handle this and create a title that is what blogger would have used.

You could probably solve this with a plugin to replace the title with the first line of the post (like blogger was doing). I don’t know how to do this, but someone else might. If no one does soon I may write one myself at some point as I have similar problems with some of my blogger posts.

I don’t know what the problem is with the text but it is messed up. I recall seeing posts regarding messed up characters, you might want to search for that some more.

Hi Poco, many thanks for the reply… its strange, i mean.. the title is there (in blogger) that idea fo taking the first line could work; however… i found myself confused with the “automated import script” because i cant even try to hard code the blogger template :S

many thanks

damn… i ‘ve discovered the problem… the original blog in blogger had windows-1252 in the charset

Is there a way to make a database trick to change it to utf-8 without changing every single post?

YAY! this is the exact problem I was having with some ez-static pages showing the funky “?” character. I just went into the pages and changed them to UTF-8 and it worked like a charm!

corryzahn, the big problem here is that the db is already formatted as windows-1252 so i cant change it from the wp-admin ??

So has this been resolved and was this the cause of the missing titles? I see that your blog has been “fixed” but it looks like you went through and replaced all the titles yourself.

I’ve started writing a plugin that replaces the numerical titles with the first part (48 characters) of the post (like Blogger does). It is working but I haven’t published it yet – it still needs some work. If anyone is interested in trying it, let me know.

Poco.. thansks… but i’ve made it the hard way :S

Oh well, I’m going to complete it anyway for myself and anyone else who hasn’t yet done it the hard way.

For anyone that cares, I have posted the initial version of the “Blogger Title Fix” plugin. It is a dirt simple plugin that replaces the ugly numerical titles inserted for title-less posts with the first 48 characters of the body (just like Blogger does for current posts with no title). There are improvements to be made, but it is better than nothing.

https://notions.okuda.ca/wordpress-plugins/blogger-title-fix/

hey poco.. many thanks ??
and your other plugins seem to be great too ??

Well, if anyone is interested, I’ve updated the title fix plugin to include options to set the length of the title, and whether to cut it on word boundaries.

https://notions.okuda.ca/2006/04/19/blogger-title-fix-plugin-02/