After migrating from XenForo to Discourse

[sniper756]

After migrating from XenForo to Discourse, two tags did not convert properly: [JUSTIFY][/JUSTIFY] and [HEADING=1][/HEADING]. Could you please advise how to remove these tags? Thank you.

[ToddZ]

If I’m reading your question right, those text formatting strings appear in the body of imported topics because they didn’t convert to markdown, and you want to globally delete those strings.

If that’s correct, I think you’ll want to look at:

Replace a string in all posts

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On the other hand, if you’re saying you somehow ended up with actual tags in Discourse that are named like [JUSTIFY][/JUSTIFY], then you can go to yourforum.com/tags and click on a bad tag, then use the wrench icon at the top of the page to edit or delete that tag.

[sniper756]

@ToddZ

If I understand your question correctly, those text formatting strings appear in the body of the imported topic because they were not converted to Markdown, and you want to globally remove those strings.

That’s exactly what I mean, thank you.