ThanlisI'm trying to move my old Movable Type blog to a WordPress installation. I am generating the import file myself, since the old database is borked. The old trackbacks are getting imported as comments.
My test import file looks like this:
TITLE: Vwls sck
AUTHOR: Bryant
DATE: 2002/11/26 11:29:48
PRIMARY CATEGORY: Navel-Gazing
STATUS: publish
ALLOW COMMENTS: 1
ALLOW PINGS: 1
CONVERT BREAKS: 0
EXCERPT:
Inspired by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, I present shrpshr.html, a global filter plugin useful for mockery and little else....
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BODY:
<p>Inspired by <a href="http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/2002_11.html#001551">Teresa Nielsen Hayden</a>, I present <a href="/static/shrpshr.html">shrpshr.html</a>, a global filter plugin useful for mockery and little else.</p>
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Jeff Youngstrom
URL: http://tomecat.com/jeffy/
DATE: 2002/11/26 13:44:00
<p>your download here link on shrpshr.html gives 404. Looks like there's an extra "static/" in there.</p>
<p>Putting that in a plugin is a hoot. good job.</p>
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Bryant
URL: http://popone.innocence.com/
DATE: 2002/11/26 13:48:00
<p>Whups! Fixed. Man, it's my day for silly mistakes.</p>
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PING:
BLOG NAME: MT Plugin Directory
URL: http://love-productions.com/mt/docs/plugins/entry/disenvowelment.php
TITLE: None
IP: 63.247.141.115
DATE: 2003/01/06 18:43:00
The author, Bryant of Population:One, wrote this after a troll posted on a friends blog one too many times.
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--------The import screen claims that it's imported with 2 comments and 1 ping, but the ping doesn't show up as a ping when I filter on pings in the comment admin screen.
... now, admittedly, this makes almost no practical difference in my life; I don't display comments and pings differently or anything. But I hate losing metadata, even something as trivial as this.
Any ideas?
