Importing entries from MT – with images?

  • Hi,
    I’m absolutely new to the world of WP. So, please forgive me if I’ve overlooked something obvious.
    I have a Movable Type Weblog on my German domain and want to translate it into English.
    Rather than install a second instance of MT on my English domain, I thought I’d try out something new – and hopefully a little more intuitive than the old blog.
    The installation was fun. Also, importing the entries seemed to go smoothly, but when I checked, I found that all the HTML-tags linking my photos had been converted to text.
    Also, the German Umlaut characters were transmogrified into something unreadable to human eyes, but this doesn’t really matter as I want to translate the texts anyway.
    Maybe someone here knows a solution to the import problem?
    Here’s the address of the new blog (I didn’t change the standard layout yet – after all I might have to go for another MT installation in the end, – if the import doesn’t work out):
    https://www.travelphoto.net/a-photo-a-day/wordpress/
    The original (German) version is at https://www.reisefotos.de/weblog/
    Laurenz
    https://www.reisefotos.de/ <br>
    https://www.travelphoto.net/
    Laurenz

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  • Thread Starter laurenz

    (@laurenz)

    Hi,
    I solved the problem by replacing the HTML < and > by < and >.
    Maybe this could be done automatically on import?
    Also, I couldn’t find an export function, so I exported the table, dropped it, replaced the above code and re-imported it. An export feature would be nice…
    Laurenz

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