Ruby Sinreich

Sorry, the above was me – I thought I was logged in.

I get this error as well – any time I try to update the admin profile (not just on changing password).
Help!

First, in “advanced editing mode” you can enter your own excerpt. So if you don’t need fuller excerpts for another part of the site, you could just use that.
If the WP excerpt doesn’t meet your needs, you could create a custom field and then use the Get Custom plug-in to display the text you enter.

I don’t get why I should love texturize. I hate curly quotes! What’s the easiest way to disable it?

I had similar problems, my export from MT was mangled with “——–” that screwed everything up. The good thing is that your erroneous import can be easily undone by deleting your “average joe” user, thereby deleting all posts assigned to him.
I’d suggest breaking your import into smaller chunks so you can isolate the problem.
OR… assuming you are the only author, just change the user created for “average joe” in the import process and modify the profile to make it your own account. Done.

Do you mean like this?
Let me know if it looks like what you want, I’ll share the code. It’s all done with conditions in one index.php file.

FYI, in case anyone cares, I fixed my directory problem and made one more improvement. Now it only makes the new search term if it’s a 404 error (this page handles all errors). So in my conditional cases that evaluate getenv("REDIRECT_STATUS") I added this code to part for 404’s:
$search_term = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],1);
$find = array ("'.html'", "'.+/'", "'[-/_]'") ;
$replace = " " ;
$new_search = preg_replace ( $find , $replace , $search_term );
and then in the search field I just put <?php echo ($new_search); ?> which only has a value if it was a 404 error.

So I don’t use the WP search function (I use free Atomz search), but since I just migrated by whole blog over from MT and changed the URLs I thought this would be pretty handy. I changed this so that it just spits out a searchable term that I automatically put into the search box on my 404 page.
It goes like this:
<?
$search_term = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],1);
$find = array ("'.html'", "'[-/_]'") ;
$replace = " " ;
$new_search = preg_replace ( $find , $replace , $search_term );
echo $new_search ;
?>
(I should probably figure out a way for it to remove the directory in the URL it’s getting, but I’m lazy and this works OK. I tried a lot of variations on "'/.+/'" but I got nothing. Any suggestions? )
You can see it in action with this old URL: http://orangepolitics.org/about/one_community_many_voices.html