{"id":375,"date":"2016-08-24T16:39:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2016-08-24T16:42:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:42:14","slug":"blog-transition-restoration-and-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/blog-transition-restoration-and-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Transition, Restoration, and Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of\u00a0my recent transition away from SquareSpace, most of the image links from the blog were broken or redirected to\u00a0the\u00a0SquareSpace image attachment server. I tried using a few WordPress plugins to grab the images and store them, but unfortunately I had to go through every post one-by-one in order to get everything properly hooked up.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you running into similar issues, I recommend this <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/has-anyone-gotten-this-to-work-with-squarespace\">WordPress forum\u00a0thread<\/a>.\u00a0Moe Loubani, one of the posters, managed to modify the popular image export plugin for WordPress in order to work slightly better with SquareSpace hosted images.<\/p>\n<p>One upside: I was able to update all the out-of-date Macromedia Flash-based YouTube embeds. I wasn&#8217;t able to find the original source videos for some of the content, but at least none of the posts are littered in dead images and links anymore!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-377\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-377 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dead-link-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"dead link\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dead-link-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dead-link.jpg 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just say no to dead links.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of\u00a0my recent transition away from SquareSpace, most of the image links from the blog were broken or redirected to\u00a0the\u00a0SquareSpace image attachment server. I tried using a few WordPress plugins to grab the images and store them, but unfortunately I had to go through every post one-by-one in order to get everything properly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/blog-transition-restoration-and-cleanup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blog Transition, Restoration, and Cleanup&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}