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I think there’s a relatively straight-forward answer to this, at least on Leopard server.

First, as noted above make sure there’s a .htaccess file in the root directory of the site and that WP can write it. You’ll know it’s writeable when you make the permalink structure change in WP and it confirms that the structure’s changed.

Second, in Mac Server Admin, go to the ‘Options’ tab for the particular site you’re working on and make sure ‘Allow All Overrides’ is checked.

That’s all it took for me (Leopard server 10.5.6), although it did take a little digging and reading. HTH.

Problem is, when it arrives in WordPress, it’s lost most of the style information. It removed the class attribute on a DIV, and removed a SPAN tag in its entirety. I’ve also tried inline styles and it’s stripped this too! Is this Flickr or WordPress?

IANAP, but my guess is that this is related to the other xmlrpc problems that have surfaced (see this bug report and this one, also check out a variety of threads here) Generally html attributes are being stripped from posts made through xmlrpc. Looks like the fixes are targeted for the 2.0.1 release.

You can do this on a per-image basis using a bit of Javascript. It’s a little more work than Zap’s elegant solution (OK, it’s more than a little more work) but it’s pretty simple and it works great.

First, upload your full size image to wp. Either let wp make the thumbnail or create one yourself and upload it.

Second, insert the thumbnail into the post, and add this code around it:

<a href="URI of your full size image" onclick="window.open('URI of your full size image','popup','width=XXX,height=YYY,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img src="URI of your image thumbnail" border="0" height="thumbnail height" width="thumbnail width" alt="panorama" align="either left or right" /></a>

Obviously you’ll have to replace the “text” values above with the appropriate ones for your own site. I’m doing some testing with 2.0 at the moment, and I just tested this for my own use this afternoon. You can see it in action on my test blog in this post. You can view the page source to see how the values work on the test site.

hth

Thanks, Ryan, that really helps my migration to WP, too…