Finally, I managed to track it down to an external source (everything in the plugin checked out fine and was returning the correct value(s).  So, I started looking through the other plugins’ sourecode, specifically ones that may modify the way the post is displayed.  Was looking through the sourcecode to the feed aggregator and found a reference to a couple of functions that saved the feed content before it is run through all the other wordpress/plugin formatting filters and restored it afterwards.  It also had a comment by it saying something along the lines “It is assumed all aggregated feeds will already be in an output-ready format so to make sure it isn’t mangled by wordpress, save the content temporarily before any filters are applied and restore after.”

Was just about to make some manual edits and thought “Hmmm, hold on a second…” went into the plugin’s settings in the wordpress administration page and there it was in a drop down box “Protect feeds from wordpress filters/Do not protect feeds from wordpress filters” *facepalm*  Well, at least it works now .

Also, while I was messing around with the blog I noticed I had a couple comments from mates but I hadn’t been notified by email.  Turns out Google Mail was identifying it as spam (sorry guys!), so I created a Google Mail filter to protect email I get from my blog… shouldn’t have that issue anymore.

Just a word of warning to CWolf (who is hosted on same server), you may want to create a filter for your blog in Google Mail .

I just finished writing a php script that read all my old blog posts from the old database in the old format (my own custom blogging system), converted it all into the WordPress format and then inserted it into this blog’s database.

I had to do it before when I updated my own blog system (before I totalled my site).  I’ve decided to take the easy way out at last, but getting all my old posts back definitely wasn’t easy.  However, it worked with amazing success and to top it off, it was all coded via SSH and nano

The only thing that hasn’t been converted, and I couldn’t really see any easy way, was the custom bbCode-style image and link tags I handled on my old blog but screw it… I don’t care , at least I have the option to go back through them and edit the old posts if I really want.

Now, where is that git, I wanna play some Tiberian Sun!