Movable Type and TypePad Importer

Description

Import posts and comments from a Movable Type or TypePad blog.

Installation

  1. Upload the movabletype-importer folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Go to the Tools -> Import screen, Click on Movable Type and TypePad

Reviews

September 3, 2021
Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP.
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Contributors & Developers

“Movable Type and TypePad Importer” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

0.6.2

  • Testing the plugin up to WordPress 6.4.2
  • Update link references from http to https.

0.6.1

  • Test the plugin up to WordPress 6.2

0.6

  • Add support for WordPress 6.1

0.5

  • Remove comment_exists check for importing comments. In testing, I found no duplicated comments via this method, and it’s extremely slow on large imports. If this check is needed, then define(‘WP_MT_IMPORT_ALLOW_DUPE_COMMENTS’, false);
  • Disable cache invalidation and both term and comment counting during import, for speed. Re-enable them after import.
  • Disable autocommit during import, commit once every 500 posts and after complete import. Huge speed boost. To force autocommit to be left alone, define(‘WP_MT_IMPORT_FORCE_AUTOCOMMIT’,true);

0.4

  • String updates

0.3

  • Use BASENAME, if present, as the slug for the post.

0.2

  • Add check for WP_LOAD_IMPORTERS

0.1

  • Initial release