luhmann

Here is the first post:

https://savageminds.org/2010/01/20/place-hacking/

And here is the second:

https://savageminds.org/2010/01/28/concerned-anthropologists-letter-to-washington/

1. No rush.
2. I didn’t realize I could still set a start number, because the option is greyed out, but now I see you can do it if you first select how many posts you wish to scan. So I did what you suggested.
3. You are right, post #1448 is causing problems. Starting at 1449 allowed it to start again, but then it only did two. #1450 seems to be a problem post as well.
4. Looking at these two posts it is very easy to see what the problem is. The authors of these posts must have written their posts in MS Word and then pasted them into WordPress, creating lots of extra DIV tags, like this:

<blockquote><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"> ... </span>

... <em>...</em><span>...</span>.
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; color: black;">...</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; color: black;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; color: black;"> ...<span> </span>...</span></div></blockquote>

It seems that QQWorld is choking on this ugly code…

Version 1.5.5 stops after 1445 entries at speed set to “5” and at 1448 entries with speed set at “1.” I didn’t try any other speeds.

Unfortunately this didn’t finish, it stopped after 1448 entries. But it was much more reliable than the old method. For some reason, however, I cannot access the batch function anymore (although it is still there). If I could combine the AJAX with the batch, hopefully I could go through all my images…

I was able to work around problems with manual entry by making my own quicktag that specifies a width equivalent to the width of my content area; however, my post above was about a different issue. When using the ‘Add Media’ button in the visual editor one is normally presented with an option for setting the width of the image. This is not the case when entering an image via URL. This means that a large image will be rescaled in the visual editor to be quite huge. I thought this was the same as an old error (linked to above) that created huge image widths as well; however, this turned out not to be the case. The bug I was referring to is different from the 10px bug, but it doesn’t seem to be at issue here.

I think I was wrong to say that 1.5.1 was scanning everything. I have realized that the post ID is not sequential, so even though the ID number exceeds the number of posts i have, there are still many hundreds of posts that haven’t been scanned. This is true even though I am now running 1.5.2.

I suggest breaking up the scanning into batches and having the person manually do the next batch (of 300 or 500?) after the first batch is done.

With the latest update (1.5.1) it seems to scan everything, but it isn’t getting some images. For instance, I used to host a lot of images on Evernote using Skitch. These images start with the URL: <img src="https://www.evernote.com/shard... If I click on the manual “save remote images” button in a post it will catch these and move them, but when doing the bulk scan it doesn’t seem to process these posts.

The way it is currently implemented for scanning old posts is a problem for blogs with a large number of posts. I have 2,548 posts on my site (it is a group blog and we’ve been blogging for a long time).

It seems to stop after a bit. It did 830 the first time then stopped. The second time it stopped at 1168. The third time at 1647… I still haven’t gotten to the end.

Each time it starts at the beginning again, but it seems to go very fast through the posts that have already been processed.

謝謝！

兩個小時內就有了。呢麼厲害！

OK. I figured out what is happening.

Basically, while simply inserting an image doesn’t require specifying a width, inserting a caption forces the image to have a width. Moreover, if you are not using an image from the media library, but an external image via a URL then you have no ability to adjust the width of that image – it defaults to the max image width.

So this seemed like the old bug, but was actually something different. Sorry about the confusion. I still don’t know how to fix it though…

Oh NO!!! Not the 10 px thing again! ??

I don’t think this is the same problem. More like what you say later:

You cannot remove the width style from the caption, nor can you set it to 100%.

I think I might be able to fix my problems with the ‘img_caption_shortcode_width’ filter, but I’m not sure how. Where does this go? In function.php? In the CSS?

Another possibility might be to simply create a new CSS class that functions as an image caption but isn’t actually stored inside the caption shortcode…

I was able to override the width settings with this CSS, but I would like to avoid WP doing this in the first place. I run a group blog and I need to be sure that guest bloggers and others don’t get freaked out by strange behavior in the visual editor.

figure.wp-caption.alignnone,
	img.alignnone {
	width: 100% !important;
	margin: auto;
}

Jimmeh83’s fix worked for me, but I find the whole thing rather confusing and feel like it is difficult to be sure I’ve saved my preferences. Perhaps the interface for this could be simplified/cleaned up?

Thanks.

I think I finally understood something about how Gandi.net works. They say on their website that each “process” is limited to 128k. So if I have 4 processes with the $10 a month plan, that means I am using 512k. Someone wrote to me off list that I would probably need 1GB. On Gandi that means I will need to upgrade to the $20 a month plan. Linode or WebFaction (other options I’ve looked at) would be about the same price. But DigitalOcean has a $10 a month plan with 1GB. So I am seriously considering the move to a VPS…