XF 2.2 No preview shown for any link after import from SMF

[Lorthirk]

Hello all,

I imported an old SMF forum to Xenforo. Everything works great, but I noticed that old posts with an embedded media (YouTube, DailyMotion, etc.) are shown as links instead that showing the embedded video. If I then edit that post and just save it without changing anything, the video is correctly shown. Is there a way to do such an operation in bulk for the whole forum? Maybe something in the Rebuild Cache section? I already tried "Rebuild post embed metadata" with the "Attachments" checkbox selected, but nothing changed

 

[Lorthirk]

Well, actually I see that any link that was previously posted is not shown its preview, even regular links, not only media. So my issue is even more pressing now. Is there a way to regenerate all the previews?

 

[beerForo]

You probably need to inspect the code and replace it with this tool:

Post Content Find / Replace

This is a direct port of the original Post Content Find / Replace add-on for XF 1.x. You may wish to search the original resource discussion for solutions to common tasks performed with this add-on.

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[Lorthirk]

God, I have tenths of thousands of links. It's going to be hard.

 

[djbaxter]

Not necessarily.

What was the old code?

What do you mean by "not showing it's preview"? Do you mean embedded videos and tweets, etc.?

 

[AndyB]

You might like this add-on:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/resave-posts-all.8727/

 

[Lorthirk]

Not necessarily.

What was the old code?

There was no code. In SMF we had a plugin that showed the embedded media for just a bare link.

What do you mean by "not showing it's preview"? Do you mean embedded videos and tweets, etc.?

Exactly, in the XenForo world I learned that the correct way to say is "The URL doesn't get unfurled"

 

[Lorthirk]

You might like this add-on:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/resave-posts-all.8727/

Does it change the update date?

 

[beerForo]

I believe so. He answered in a PM instead of here so I'll post it. It resaves the post and removes the last edited text. So I am assuming every post has the "History" link appear and it shows in the logs in the post and in admin. So yes it changes the updated date. Personally I'd be a little hesitant to run an add-on that resaved every post as there is no way to quality check the results for large sites.

You can use the above tool however quite easily. If you post in the discussion thread for it members can help you with the replacement code. You can wrap your unfurl and media tags around your links and get them working.

EDIT: He updated the add-on description.

 

[djbaxter]

I believe so. He answered in a PM instead of here so I'll post it. It resaves the post and removes the last edited text. So I am assuming every post has the "History" link appear and it shows in the logs in the post and in admin. So yes it changes the updated date. Personally I'd be a little hesitant to run an add-on that resaved every post as there is no way to quality check the results for large sites.

You can use the above tool however quite easily. If you post in the discussion thread for it members can help you with the replacement code. You can wrap your unfurl and media tags around your links and get them working.

EDIT: He updated the add-on description.

Does it change the update date?

It only changes the last edited date, not the message posted date.

@AndyB can you confirm this is correct?