Imported Wrongly

  • Okay so I’d set up WordPress and attempted to import my MT posts into the system. Everything seemed fine and ok when it came upon a snag. It’d taken one of my posters usernames and inserted him, not only as a site admin but the poster of every single one of my posts. I was also in the list so I defined myself as the site admin, and clicked proceed.
    Good job that did. I had one post, which was the default WordPress one whilst a non-registered average joe poster on my site was deemed the author of the blog. Why?
    I “thought” it’d be okay to delete this user and all posts under him would be reverted to my control, bad mistake, it deleted all the posts and comments. Why?
    Isn’t WordPress supposed to be good, puh-lease.

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  • Not changing any options during the import will import all posts with the same usernames as on the MT weblog, if that is what you want.

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    I’ll give that a try. But does a non author, an average joe, become author to all?

    I had similar problems, my export from MT was mangled with “——–” that screwed everything up. The good thing is that your erroneous import can be easily undone by deleting your “average joe” user, thereby deleting all posts assigned to him.
    I’d suggest breaking your import into smaller chunks so you can isolate the problem.
    OR… assuming you are the only author, just change the user created for “average joe” in the import process and modify the profile to make it your own account. Done.

    I think I found a potential problem, find
    echo '<option value="'.$user->user_nickname.'">'.$user->user_nickname.'</option>';
    around line 79 of import-mt.php and replace that line with
    echo '<option value="'.$user->user_login.'">'.$user->user_login.'</option>';
    That should fix the authors problem.
    After importing the posts, if everything is imported right, run wp-admin/upgrade.php to fix loose ends (like gmt dates, and some other odd things)
    Both these problem should be fixed in the next release.
    Thank you.

    The bug fix.

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    More errors when trying to import. It generates this error;
    Database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ORDER BY ID’ at line 1]
    SELECT * FROM ORDER BY ID
    And this is from a fresh install and import…

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Any help on this?

    Did you use the bug fix posted above (ie, did you edit import-mt.php) ?
    The error statement in itself does not give me much to go by. Any other details will be helpful.

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Yep I used the updated file. I went to run import-mt.php clicked the let’s go and got that error. Tried to click okay anyway and got a whole bunch of errors with each post being imported.

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Still getting this problem. I’ve used the bug fix file yet it’s still the same…

    ChrisGwynne,
    My bad. I should have told you that the bug fix file is for version 1.3 alpha 2.
    to make it work for 1.2, please follow the instructions in my earlier reply

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