Movable Type Import

from https://www.ads-software.com/about/features:

We currently have importers for Greymatter, Blogger, and b2. Work on importers for Movable Type, Textpattern, and pMachine are under way.

i actually wrote a script that converted my mt posts and comments to wordpress, but

1. it’s an ugly hack
2. it’s for mysql

btw, you weren’t planning on using the berkeley db for wordpress, were you? it’s mysql only as of now.

Apologies for reopening a closed thread, but… could you tell me more about this hack? I am interested in moving my blog to WP, but as it is, my MT installation uses the post ID in the permalink (I know, I know, cruft-free URLS rule!), and I can’t see any way to keep the IDs as is unless I convert the MySQL database.
Ideas?

A MT-Wordpress import script is now included in the distribution. Haven’t tried it myself. I’m surprised you didn’t come across a mention of it when you searched the forum before posting.

I know that, but the import script works off the MT text export, which does not preserve post IDs. I want to preserve post IDs, and I don’t see how I can without directly converting the database.

Post IDs are, by their nature, platform specific. Rather than directly converting the database if you have a little programming skill you could try the following.
Modify the mt-export template (I don’t remember where the file is, it’s a normal template file) to export something like POST_ID: 123 on a new line. Then add a case to the switch statement in import-mt.php to import the ID.

just out of curiosity, what do you use the post id for? I’m not trying to be a smart ass. I can’t figure it out…

You might want to use the post ID in permalinks if you did a lot of linking to previous posts within your blog, and didn’t want to keep typing long URLs based on the date and time. It’s a matter of personal choice.

If you’re taking the time to look up the post ID for a previous post, you can take the time to cut and paste a permalink from your page… That’s all I do… and permalinking by post ID is bad for the very reason that if you switch content management systems, there’s a 99% chance that your post id’s won’t be kept (just as an example, you don’t see MT importing Blogger’s post id’s… yet how come people never complain about THAT?)

Yeah, but he’s already permalinked by post ID, obviously not thinking about the future implications – probably never thought he would want to switch from MT – so it’s a little late for the lecture now.

I dont see this file in the milestone package do I have to download it seperately?

nevermind i found it ??