czar21

@otto, it all seems so clear now! Thanks!

I consider myself an in-between WordPress user– I didn’t realize the disconnect between the .com and .org services/packages.

Cheers!

@jdingman, auto-embed is enabled.

@otto, [embed] works but won’t allow me to specify the height and width of the frame. WordPress does allow YT shortcodes, at least here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/#embedding-with-a-shortcode

Thanks for the link– that’s an option, as is just using the YouTube embed HTML code.

However, I run multiple sites across my domain and others so the ideal solution would be something that’s default in the WordPress source tree.

That’s why I’m so perplexed by this issue.

Bump.
Is there any program that runs in Windows that allows for quick editing of ID tags in a database?

Bump.

OK, getting further now…
I’m just running the INSERT lines rather than trying to take the whole database dump and stick it in the new database.
Still having a problem though…
“SQL-query :
INSERT INTO wp_categories
VALUES ( 1, ‘General’, ‘general’, ”, 0 )
MySQL said:
Duplicate entry ‘1’ for key 1″
How do I get the database to skip over those, but then propogate them correctly with new ID values?

Bump.

Bump.

OK, here’s what I did so far.
Went into phpAdmin and backed up my database as of now.
Then I clicked on the SQL tab and directed it to upload my .sql file.
This is what it spat out…
Database balloflight running on localhost
Error
SQL-query :
CREATE TABLE ae_data (
id int( 11 ) NOT NULL auto_increment,
type varchar( 20 ) NOT NULL default ”,
code varchar( 30 ) NOT NULL default ”,
itemtitle varchar( 150 ) NOT NULL default ”,
authors varchar( 150 ) NOT NULL default ”,
url varchar( 150 ) NOT NULL default ”,
image varchar( 150 ) NOT NULL default ”,
comment text NOT NULL ,
dateadded date NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00’,
recom tinyint( 4 ) NOT NULL default ‘0’,
PRIMARY KEY ( id )
) TYPE = MYISAM AUTO_INCREMENT = 6
MySQL said:
Table ‘ae_data’ already exists
Something worked, because ae_data is the table that used to house my Amazon links (hack) and they transferred over to the database… nothing else did.
Anything anyone see I did wrong?

I think I understand how the process works, but what I would not be doing is a fresh upgrade. I’m kind of trying to take two databases from different versions of WP and smash them together so that I keep all the posts/comments from both databases. Forgive me if I’m wrong, but the Tamba tutorial is just for moving posts over to a fresh WP with no posts on the new domain as of that time?
Still possible to take a older database and mash it into an already existing newer database?
Forgive my ignorance please.

“Are you deleting all files from the server before uploading new ones ?”
Not the first time, left index.php and wp-config.php etc. Did this morning though, with same result…
“Have you run ‘upgrade.php’ a couple of times ?”
Yes, many many times over a couple different uploads…

“Why do you think the old posts would “overwrite” the new ones? Just wondering…”
I have a tendancy to uh… break stuff… ??

@tg
Would you mind sending me the shell you’ve created… I’d like to take a look at it… [email protected]
I’ve been wanting to move to WordPress for a long time, but I need support for some static pages… If this works for me, I’ll jump on the table and do an Irish jig ??
Thanks,
Colin