justinbaeder

Lorax, you’re a lifesaver. I had those two UTF-8 lines in there from a previous version of WP.

I’ve documented my experience with this problem here.

Thanks, John25. FYI, this solves the wp_terms errors mentioned elsewhere as well.

Ah, never mind, they already exist and are well-publicized:

Disable plugin updates

Disable core updates

I agree heartily. I manage numerous WP installations for other people, and I don’t need them trying stuff on their own or bugging me about it before I’m ready to upgrade.

In my case, it would have been a complete waste of time to upgrade to 2.3, since 2.3.1 came out faster than I could have gotten all the 2.3 upgrades done.

Upgrading is a good idea, but it’s still a choice, and there are many reasons people wait a while before upgrading, such as plugin compatibility and organizational constraints.

Maybe someone will write a plugin to disable these notices ??

Hi misterbearpants.com,
Yes, we were doing manual New Blogger to WordPress imports. It was a pain. Fortunately, you can now use this plugin to import from New Blogger to WordPress:
https://www.romantika.name/v2/2007/01/31/import-new-blogger-to-wordpress/

Cheers,
Justin
WebbleYou.com

There is now a plugin that will import from New Blogger to WordPress:
https://www.romantika.name/v2/2007/01/31/import-new-blogger-to-wordpress/

There is now a plugin that imports from New Blogger to WordPress:
https://www.romantika.name/v2/2007/01/31/import-new-blogger-to-wordpress/

One correction: There was also a conflict with the Google Sitemamp plugin, which kept me from deleting posts, and returned a blank white page when creating a new post (which was double-posted). Deactivating Google Sitemaps fixed the problem.

I figured out a workaround.

I figured out a workaround

OK, I figured out how to get from Blogger Beta to WP2.x via WP1.5.x and Skeltoac’s old export script. It’s possibly the most fantastically kludgy thing I’ve ever done, but it worked. The directions are at:
https://www.webbleyou.com/2006-09-14-how-to-move-from-blogger-beta-to-wordpress

I figured out how to import images from Blogger manually using wget:
webbleyou.com/2006-07-19-moving-images-from-blogger-to-wordpress

I figured out how to import images from Blogger manually using wget:
https://www.webbleyou.com/2006-07-19-moving-images-from-blogger-to-wordpress

Check out the home.php template of the Blook theme:
https://not-that-ugly.co.uk/pages/competition-entries/

Could you just use normal WP pages with a plugin like RunPHP?