Paragraphs and line breaking in HTML posts

[rwmpelstilzchen]

Hi,

Thanks for Exitwp. I've used it for migrating my data from my (old) WordPress blog to Jekyll. ☺

My posts are in HTML, which is the default in WP. The migration ran smoothly, but I've noticed that Exitwp outputs the content of the posts as-is. Now, when manually editing HTML posts in WP one can omit <p>s and <br />s and they are automatically added using the wpautop PHP command; thus, all of the paragraphs and line breaks in Exitwp's output were not processed by the browser as such, since they were whitespaces.

The pull request fixes this. Using this Python implementation of wpautop. It changes the default target format from Markdown to HTML, because the conversion to Markdown loses data (I think you might want to add a warning about this in the comment on target/output formats in the configuration file).

Thanks,
Júda

[thomasf]

Hello, I think that markdown should remain the default output format.

[rwmpelstilzchen]

OK, but don't you think paragraph separation and line breaking should be properly processed?

[thomasf]

Yes, that is probably desirable for most situations.

[SeanFromIT]

I like the linebreaks_wp.py additions, I feel like this would address some of the things I had to clean-up manually after migration.