Movable Type Importer

[dneto]

I've tried to import my old Movable Type blog data (v3.2) and I noticed the importer didn't keep my old POST IDS and also striped away some of my common used tags (AREA and MAP are just 2 of them). Can you solve this?

[abhay]

Would you mind dumping your MT data into the attachments on this thread? I'd like a frame of reference.

[ryan]

Post IDs cannot be fixed. They are a strictly incrementing, non-portable number.

[dneto]

I attached a file with just a part of my posts. I've modified my Movable Type exporter to include the POSTID field, just after the AUTHOR field. So, the WP importer may read this field correctly and import it.

And what about the stripping tags? Are they really gonna be stripped from all over the import proccess?

Thanks for your feedback!
Daniel Neto
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

[dneto]

Ryan,

I've used the old (modified) import-mt.php AND it allowed me to import POST IDs AND my table has the "auto-increment" option, but the comments were not correctly "attached" to their posts. Just to let you know that it's possible, but I'm not a PHP geek to modify it to do the right thing.

Still waiting for comments.

Regards
Daniel Neto