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1. tdellaringa
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Now that 1.5 is out, is there a good way to go from MT to WP? I have one site left on MT that I would really like to get to WP. I did it once a year or so ago with 1.2 and it was a real trial.

   I did a search but did not come up with anything. Are there any how-to links out there? Any tools/utilities?

   Thanks

2. oriecat
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   There is an import function included. I just helped a friend migrate over this weekend, and she imported about 330 posts with no problem at all.

   We used this tutorial http://carthik.net/wpdocs/importmt.html

3. jonimueller
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   I recently helped a fried migrate from MT 2.61 to WP 1.2. Everything came over without a hitch, EXCEPT for some reason, some of her comments were out of whack. But considering she had three years' worth of blog entries, that was a small price to pay.

   Several things you will likely love about WP over MT is (1) your files take up much less space. When I migrated a year ago, my blog occupied approximately 90MB of server space. Converted to WP, it slimmed down to just under 30MB. (2) The templates are easier to master. WP 1.5 has a few more templates because it is using a new template scheme, but even so, there isn't that daunting array of templates that there was in MT (MT had two site templates, three archive templates and four comment templates, not including templates you might have set up for your own uses). Contrast this with WP's 1 template (WP 1.2) or 4 templates (Main, Header, Footer, Sidebar) in WP 1.5.

   Welcome!

4. tdellaringa
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Oh I agree it's better - as I stated - I already moved one over a half year or so ago :) !

   I have one left on MT. But it was painful, at least for me, getting the MT data over to WP. I believe the problem I had was I lost all my comments authors, and a few other annoying things. Anyway, if anyone has a step-by-step I'd be grateful.

5. tdellaringa
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Thanks oriecat - I missed that post first time around! - That looks great!

6. tis
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   I've just posted another way to do the redirect of old pages. If anyone is interested...

   http://tis.goringe.net/2005/04/12/redirecting/

7. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 7 years ago #

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_from_other_blogging_software#Importing_from_Movable_Type

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