Can I do something like “republish” with WP?

  • Republish is a funtion that those of you familiar with blogger sure know about it.

    I went through a database copy/restore operation. after that some of my posts had some “?” in them (instead of some non-English characters). The interesting thing is that after opening the post for editing and saving it (with or without changes) the missing characters dissapeared and everything was fine.

    As you can see, I there was something like “republish” (a function which saved all posts again) that would be fixed immediately. Otherwise, there’s 400+ posts and nearly 4000 comments to edit and save!!

    Any ideas?

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  • No.

    Republish is used for offline bloggers, software which publish html pages like Blogger or MT or Thingamablog.

    WordPress generates pages on the fly.

    What you need is a database script to sanitize your post contents.

    Thread Starter adeco2

    (@adeco2)

    script to sanitize post contents. sounds good to me. anyone?

    Hi,

    > script to sanitize post contents

    But why? If we cannot compare, how should be know what features are missing? No product is perfect. Hiding the truth will not help. Instead, why don’t we identify missing features and ask the developers to add them to WordPress?

    Compared to Thingamablog, we urgently need “multiple blog support” and “static page generation” in WordPress.

    Best regards.

    Frank

    Hiding the truth ? It’s not the x-files around here ??

    Great! In that case there would be no need to sanitize post contents.

    You want to comment on the coding of WP, join the hackers list.
    If you have code to help, post a link to the hackers list.
    You will find your responses / concerns will be addressed there by the people who code.

    “urgently” is subjective.

    Thread Starter adeco2

    (@adeco2)

    Can anyone provide a script to sanitize the database?

    I need to “republish” the whole blog (in order to solve the character problem) and got too many entries.

    @naudefj2 aka Frank

    > Hiding the truth will not help.
    I don’t speak for WordPress developers nor I am part of WP team. In fact there are issues on which I seriously disagree with them including security-by-obscurity principle which they adopt. I have no reason to hide anything.

    You have not understood. WordPress is architecturally different from Blogger or MT or Thingamablog. They generate static pages whereas WordPress generates them on the fly using php script.

    Publishing in WP is different than in MT or Blogger. In WP publishing merely changes a flag in the database (if already saved) or just saves the post with appropriate flag. It doesn’t generate pages. The actual pages are generated on-the-fly from the database.

    In his case sanitizing the post content is what he needs, nothing more nothing less.

    > Instead, why don’t we identify missing features and ask the developers to add them to WordPress?

    It is not a case of missing feature as I am sure you have understood by now. WordPress is architecturally different.

    > script to sanitize post contents. sounds good to me. anyone?

    Most likely there will be one of several thousand volunteers who would jump on the job.

    However if that doesn’t work out and neither can you cook up something you can always make me an offer I cannot refuse ??
    You can find my contact information in my blog, otherwise you can leave a comment on any of my entry (it will remain private).

    oce

    (@josepo)

    i have this problem, my blogger.com conversion didn’t apply my new wordpress template to the archives, only the current page on the index.

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