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That did it. Thank you, Oliver.

That’s what I thought too. Changing the margin settings for the bottom (third value) works fine, but changing the top (first value) does nothing. I tried it with Firefox, Chrome and Edge. Something else must be overriding that setting.

Thank you Oliver,

That adequately solves the problem. The titles are now evenly spaced between the images. Is there a CSS that adjusts the spacing between the posts to add some additional space above the titles?

Thank you, bcworkz, for pointing me to the dedicated forum. I was not aware of it. I read a number of posts there. I downloaded the importer code and went through it and found some of the difficulties. With that I was able to come up with an approach and solved my problem.

A while back I had raised some concerns and requested some changes in another area at GitHub (I have been a member for years). That did not go well. The goal there is to close out issues, not to solve them. Requesting improving the importer and making it more user friendly is not likely to succeed.

This issue should now be considered resolved.

Thank you again, bcworkz, your help was valuable, I appreciate your patience with me.

Thank you again, bcworkz,

You have been kind in trying to give me a hand, but my skills are old, as am I, and can’t handle today’s problems. As you suggested, I did go to phpMyAdmin. Had a fun time trying to figure out which database is the one for the website with this problem. But then didn’t get much farther. You asked “see if you can discern what’s wrong with it“. Here is one place where I can’t tell wrong from right.

As to plugins, I have Jetpack, the importer, the search plugin, and Options for Twenty Twenty-One, and that is the theme. None of those should interfere with the Import tool working. By the way, I ran the importer once again and it again failed for every image, but it saw that the posts were there and apparently skipped over them. It is that tool that has a problem. When it fails to migrate over a media file it clearly stated that it has failed, it shows the proper file name, what it doesn’t do is tell what went wrong. Back in my early days as a programmer a user grabbed me and implored, “don’t tell me that something went wrong, tell me what I need to do”. I tried to follow that admonition and had a pretty successful career. Now I would really like the caretakers of the Import tool to assist and do likewise.

That tool, operating as it seems to be intended, would be a great asset. It is probably worth updating and correcting. I would gladly assist as a tester. In the meantime, please forgive me for going out and making fun of this problem.

Using the Better Search Replace plugin, I replaced the first part of the image URLs (https://comprules.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads) with the appropriate part of the new URLs (https://cafeludwig.blog/wp-content/uploads). The posts work with these changes and show the correct images (I did not check all posts, just a sample). However, the images do not show in the Media Library and do not show when editing an old post. Site visitors see the correct images from the new site, but the data base does not have the updated information. Is there a way to correct that?

Thank you, bcworkz,

I extracted the tar file and got the file structure and media. I constructed the same file structure in the wp-content/uploads folder and uploaded the media. Alas, the Media in the WordPress dashboard does not show these files. So, this did not work for me.

The Import tool would be a very fine and useful way to do this. If it worked as I assume it should. Why did it fail for me? Could it be fixed so it works properly?

Thank you, bcworkz, for your response. I have tried export – import several times now and “Failed to import Media …” happened every time. The “Migrating WordPress” article was not helpful to me – way over my ability to understand or do. You said that “… import tools are not 100% reliable”. It seems to me that the process is 100% unreliable. I cannot understand how this is allowed in the community. I cannot find simple step-by-step instructions for doing a migration. I exported the Media and now have a 109 MB tar file that I don’t know what to do with. My new site works, but the posts get the media from the .com site. Maybe I just have to live with that.

Thank you very much, Threadi.

That does take care of it.

Thank you, Threadi,

I am using the Twenty-Twenty-One. When using the Media & Text block with the image on the left it aligns with other text. There is a margin on the right side of the image and then the text. When the image is on the right side and the text on the left there is a margin at the left of the text. It looks indented.

That makes the text and image look out of place with the other text.

Here is a page that shows my concern: Demo – Cafe Ludwig ( https://cafeludwig.com/demo/ )

Is that normal for this block?

Thank you, James. I well know the difference having used WordPress.com and I have many self-hosted installs of www.ads-software.com. They two do have a lot in common, at the top and on down. The recent developments have been an uphill struggle for many of us. Pardon me for letting my frustration show.

Sorry, George, I very much apologize if I offended you.

Jetpack is made by Automattic, that is WordPress. The Jetpack plugin configuring is not well done.

My comment about WordPress developers was inappropriate.

Thank you, threadi. The “connect” option is deep inside the Jetpack dashboard and not at all obvious. I did find it and made the connection. It amazes me how WordPress has become so inept and difficult to use. Are all their developers Wix moles?

Thanks again, Oliver. Sorry to have not waited long enough.

Thank you, Oliver.

Well, the post is there today. I had waited a long time, refreshed everything and cleared caches. But the latest post from Café Ludwig (cafeludwig.blogspot.com) just didn’t show up – until I checked again this afternoon and it was there.

I had even uninstalled the block and started over and it did not show the latest post. Maybe I just didn’t wait a whole day.

Since it seems to be working ok, please excuse this request and consider it solved.