If a user had a caption in their blog entries, wordpress's caption code is printed on the page and is not addressed on import.

See screenshot.

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lavamind commented
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Looks to me like we would have to imitate the way Wordpress itself handles those captions and modify the body. But since this process probably depends on some user-defined settings, I'm not sure that would be the best way...

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lavamind commented

Furthermore, this and the video tags, should be things translated at the moment of exporting, by Wordpress, not when importing...

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kmonty
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I started a new project to help with this: http://drupal.org/project/caption_filter

I'll write some script to handle converting the existing code to this method.

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lavamind commented

Let me know when the module has a public release so I can document it.

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I actually found some bugs in it that I won't have time to fix until after the holiday, so I didn't commit to CVS. I'll let you know as soon as I get it committed.

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Just to update, I released a version of Caption Filter but it isn't in the same format of Wordpress.

Wanted to relate this to #739798: Using Caption Filter to migrate captions from Wordpress

Not sure what queue this thread belongs in.

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Kmonty's filter is nice to duplicate the functionality of captions in Wordpress, but it would be much nicer to just get rid of the [caption] altogether upon import.

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lavamind commented

@Melissa M: Getting rid of [caption] would indeed be great but the problem is determining the appropriate markup to generate. If you have any ideas on this, please share.

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Melissamcewen commented

I love Kmonty's module, which turns it into a div with a class that's "caption" so I can style it as such. It's really too bad it doesn't work with the markup on the wordpress sites I've had to import which is [caption ="blahblahblah"] rather than [caption=blablahblah]

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Wordpress's caption code is not simple and therefore far to difficult to use. Someone just needs to write some migration regular expressions and it is done.

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lavamind commented

In the Wordpress [caption] tag, what attributes to we need to migrate? Only "align" and "caption" ?

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grasmash commented

I wanted to get rid of all of the caption tags without getting rid of their contents, so I did this:

ran a find and replace with this regex (replacing with empty string) to remove all "[caption with-anything-here]":

\[caption([^\]])*\]

then ran a literal find and replace to get rid of all "[/caption]"

you could also run a find and replace with this regex to get rid of all caption tags, including their contents:

\[caption.*\[\/caption\]

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mattiasj commented

It would be great to have the option before importing to totally strip all [captions], it would be great in some cases!