Comments on: Importing from MT to WordPress

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:25:00 +0000

As the Movable Type importer is somewhat different now than when you made your changes to the import script, I updated it to accept the ID field exported from Movable Type as per your instructions.

It’s actually much simpler now–the wp_insert_post() function now accepts an “insert_id” field, which is a suggested id for the newly created post, which will be used in the case that it is not already in use by another post. Also, the importer script is now a plugin, so after installing the plugin, you have to replace the existing file at wp-content/plugins/movabletype-importer/movabletype-importer.php with this one:

http://davidcanderson.net/files/movabletype-importer.php

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:31:00 +0000

Has anyone tried this recently? I have this exactly problem I’m trying to tackle.

By: Chris Brunner

Chris Brunner — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:46:02 +0000

Everything here has worked wonderfully, so thank you.

My only problem is that your version of mt.php doesn’t include a way to import a local file, and my mt-export.txt file is 26MB.

So, I’ll have to either adjust my timeout values and try to upload my file through the web interface or code that functionality back into mt.php.

In any case, you may want to modify your post to warn people of this.

By: Martine

Martine — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:25:08 +0000

Thanks anyway for your answer! In case this can help someone else: just after posting my question, I tried some kind of desperate move… I reimported again using the original mt.php. Guess what? It worked: the comments got associated to the original posts, preserving the ID that previously was imported with your modified mt.php script.

The only problem now: the Dashboard seems to have lost the capability to count the posts. It shows “0 post”, even though the posts are there, published, and are counted in category listings.

Even new posts aren’t counted: the Dashboard always shows 0. I just don’t know if this is an issue that could lead to further problems…

By: Joshua Zader

Joshua Zader — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:05:08 +0000

Martine,

Unfortunately, I don’t have any ideas. It’s been three years since I worked on the import script, so I’m surprised it still works at all!

Hopefully someone who knows PHP can help you update the script to suit your purposes.

If anyone does create an updated version of the script, let me know here and I’ll post a prominent link.

Joshua

By: Martine

Martine — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:53:40 +0000

Hello! I know it’s been a long time since you wrote this, but maybe you’ll be able to help.

All goes well for me until I get to the importing part, with the mt.php modified script. In my case, the entries import fine, it’s the comments that don’t show up! They imported just fine with the original mt.php script.

Any thoughts on this? I have many years of blogging in archives. Preserving my permalinks is crucial… but also the comments people took time to write over the years…

By: TBOTCOTW » Blog Archive » Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!

TBOTCOTW » Blog Archive » Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes! — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:55:51 +0000

[...] migration was not especially difficult, but I did have to follow these directions to make MT print the EntryIDs in the export file, and to make WP read and use them when importing. [...]

By: Daniel Lapin

Daniel Lapin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:42:05 +0000

I tried your fix (replacing the mt import file with your version) but it did not work. The weird problem I am having is that all of the comments import correctly, and I even get the “Have Fun” message at the bottom of the list of posts, but the posts do not show up! However, when I look at the comments and click on a post name, the post appears as it would normally. I don’t get it.

I have tried reinstalling everything but to no avail. And when I re-import, I get a list of the posts with a notation at the end of each name that it “already exists.”

Weird, huh!

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

By: Giornale

Giornale — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:26:04 +0000

..thanks a lot for the useful post!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:40:46 +0000

I think the file to alter in the Bonus section of Step 5 has changed to wp-includes/link-template.php