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PHP Version, mysql version, specific platform (unix can be very vague, its like saying I drive a ford, “well, what model, what year”). WordPress version, webserver/version, anything else that might be relavent.

Using .html pages would be tricky, and involve a lot of editing of the code, and having your host set your server to interpret .html files as PHP.

For importing, http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#Importing_from_an_RSS_feed

And making .htaccess writable is optional and not needed.

@ the original thread

WordPress and PHP’s vunerabilities are unreleated. The pear commands given will in no way affect WordPress. The article above is entirely incorrect in listing WordPress as a vunerable software because of the way that PHP handles XMLRPC.

WordPress uses its own builtin XMLRPC server, and it is just coincidence that these vunerabilities were discovered at the same time.

Talk to your host, see if maybe something with outgoing connections is blocked.

The quicktags won’t show because you are probably on a browser that doesn’t support them, Safari most likely. img tags need to be self closed, you have to use a /> at the end and not a >.

ecto,

Podz wasn’t the one that needed the tests, it was Matt, and we have a testers and hackers mailing this set up for this, but nobody tested with ecto. Ecto wasn’t blatently ignored, I ensure you, but none of the users stepped up to test it. If you’re interested, perhaps join the WP-Testers mailing list and wait for requests to come up for testing? (I do beleive we could still use some now on the hackers list if you’re so inclined).

Get a better host is all you can really do.

Edit: nevermind, I didn’t see that the whole script wasn’t posted.