Easter Resurrection: MT to WP: img tags not coming along?

This would be my “newb” fix. I’m not sure what caused this problem, but to fix it what I would do is copy the sql database into a simple text file, do a find for the <img> tag, and each time you come acress one <i>re-code the alt tag into each picture by hand</i>. Then re-import this news sql file.

I hope you don’t have, like, 10,000 image links or something.

Alternately, you could just let the alt tags go.

Perhaps someone a bit more sophisticated can come up with a better solution. Sorry!

Brittanie,

Thanks for the tip. Before i started hacking up some Perl I thought that I’d check to see if this is something standard. Maybe I can figure out something to make this go by a little bit faster.

Thanks,

Steven

Brittanie, et al,

So basically on the import, it appears that WP *insists* that the <img> tag be written to the specification of the W3C. This is not a horrible thing unless you’ve been, like me, insconsistent in the application of the alt= tag.

I wrote a real quick perl script to take an MT file, and then put in a generic alt= tag. While filling it in with something meaningful ( by hand ) is probably more approrpiate, I’ve not the energy to tackle all of those on day 1 of the import.

As such, i wrote this script to do the alt tag addition for me:


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#===============================================================================
#
# FILE: fix_img_tag.pl
#
# USAGE: cat (somefile) | ./fix_img_tag.pl
#
# DESCRIPTION: This is a tool to take the exported movable type blog file
# and fix the image tag so that WordPress can import.
#
# OPTIONS: ---
# REQUIREMENTS: ---
# BUGS: ---
# NOTES: ---
# AUTHOR: Steven G. Harms (SGH), <[email protected]>
# COMPANY: No company at all
# VERSION: 1.0
# CREATED: 04/16/06 13:50:16 PDT
# REVISION: ---
#===============================================================================

use strict;

my @entry_arrray = <STDIN>;

for ( @entry_arrray ){
# If it contains img and doesns't have an alt tag, put a generic one in
if ( /<img/ && !/alt/ ){
s#<img #< img alt="Alt Tag Added during WordPress Conversion" #;
print $_
}else{
print $_
}
}