Rating: 5 stars
Well, I tried this plugin on my old site and it scanned but then would not convert. And then I tried again on the new site, the one that I already converted to a Gutenberg theme and it worked!! I am using WordPress 6.2. I think the best strategy is to only update 20 at a time on a page by page basis – through the Bulk action pulldown option to Convert where you check all listed and click Apply vs. Bulk Convert All button at top. I tried the Bulk Convert All and the minute I walked away from my computer and the screen went blank it had a server error but still managed to get half of them done.
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Button on tools page not working
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Plugin does not work with WP 5.8.1, errors in browser console, no reaction on scan button click.
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When used on WordPress 5.8, the plugin installs and activates. Nothing happens after starting the scan.
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This plugin is abandoned and unfortunately does not work with the latest version of WordPress, 5.7.2
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After instaling ‘scan button’ doesn’t do anything!
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I’ve installed the plugin, but when I click on the button “Scan Content” nothing happen..
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The plugin deleted all the images showed in galleries. Had to replace database with a backup U_U
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I was skeptical at the beginning after reading a few reviews mentioning that for some people all their content was messed up, or that the plugin did absolutely nothing. My website is running on WP 5.5.3, and I’m delighted to testify that this plugin managed to convert all 492 posts on my website to Gutenberg’s format.
I started first by converting manually a few posts (by clicking “convert” in the list), but since I was satisfied with the result, I then moved page by page (20 entries by page), before clicking the “Bulk Convert All” button.
The Bulk Convert All took approximately 20 minutes to convert all remaining posts (approx. 400). But this plugin saved me a couple of days of work by automating this tedious task. Thank you Organic Themes!
Rating: 5 stars
I have a pretty simple website but it did have galleries, embeds and photos and everything converted perfectly. Thank you!
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After converting, I am getting error message when trying to edit content ‘This block contains unexpected or invalid content’ I suspect it’s this plugin fault.
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Do not use this plugin. It ended my website. Unconfigured everything.
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Simple and effective to update content to blocks
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Great little tool if you’re doing a simple conversion of a lot of posts. As with any bulk tool/content migration sometimes manual clean up is required.
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Clean and good plugin, works as promised. Thanks a real life saver!
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This works as intended as long as you have the proper Gutenberg tags in your content. We used it to migrate an old WP blog. I create a Symfony console app to throw in all the tags.
After running the cli command, we reimported the content, I ran this and it converted all the classic blocks to Gutenberg blocks with no problems that I could see. So thank you for this plugin.
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I’ve just spent 30 minutes to find a way to write this review (it’s not easy in the wordpress world). Warning. This plugin went through 4000 posts on my website and, oh, decided it couldn’t do anything for me. I suspect this plugin is collecting data.
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This is an extremely useful plugin which has the potential to save a lot of time. There are a few things I would love to see developed further:
1. It only works with Posts and Pages. It doesn’t recognize custom post types. The authors have noted that if this is a requested feature they may build it out, so I’m hopeful that will be coming eventually.
2. It doesn’t convert shortcodes properly. Any shortcodes I have in my posts ended up being converted to empty shortcode blocks – meaning the shortcode itself, along with all the attributes, were lost. So I had to manually go back and fill those in. I’m hoping this is a bug where WP Core changed something in the matrix and the plugin just hasn’t caught up, but will.
3. Custom blocks are another pitfall. If you’re working on a site where part of the content has already been converted, and you have non-Core blocks (whether they’re from plugins or themes or your own custom built), the plugin doesn’t have a way to recognize the custom blocks and so things get converted to just Core blocks – often custom HTML. This doesn’t surprise me, since the only way to handle custom blocks would be to give this plugin some sort of “If you encounter this specific HTML, create this specific Block, using these rules” instructions. I would love to see it opened up to where developers could include templates just like that – so those of us who have partially-converted sites or custom blocks already in mind could ensure that the desired blocks are always used.
4. It doesn’t handle crummy HTML well. One of my sites has a lot of legacy posts where there are various forms of bad HTML:
Heading tags that have images and paragraphs inside of them (the images and paragraphs get lost, so only the headings remain)
Copied-and-pasted text wrapped in a single <p> </p> wrapper (this all ends up as one custom HTML block, with a ton of <br> tags where all the manual line breaks were)
And so on. This is another case where, even if you don’t have custom blocks, it would be nice to allow the user to define specific HTML-to-Block templates of their own to handle these known situations.
Overall, I’m impressed, and all of my Posts and Pages where content was straightforward and not needing custom blocks processed very quickly and seamlessly. I also find it very useful to see how many Posts and Pages have yet to be converted – it makes almost a checklist. (Might be nice if the plugin also kept track of how many it specifically has converted, versus people manually converting things, to show its value.) I’m grateful to the developers for releasing this. It’s a wonderfully huge help.
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Thank you very much for this time-saving tool! Version 1.0 worked as expected to convert all posts and pages from each containing one Classic block to individual blocks.
I’m in the process of migrating a site from Squarespace to WordPress. There is a lot of manual work involved to get all the posts and pages formatted nicely. Bulk Block Converter is a very helpful resource for this work.
I’m confident this plugin will gain a lot of traction and help with the progression of the WordPress platform. Thanks again for taking the time to build this tool and share it freely in the WordPress plugin directory.
* Note that this tool can be used one time and then uninstalled. Therefore, the number of active installations will not represent how many people and websites have benefited from this resource.
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