Short answer: probably.
Somewhat longer answer, it all depends on if your image data is associated with the post content during import (it could be imported later, but you’ll probably have to provide this association (the post ID) manually).
First, I assume based on a previous forum post, you used a customized method to import through the MT importer. I can imagine adding to your import file a line in the header of each post (where TITLE, AUTHOR, etc are specified), something like the following for your image data :
CUSTOM: /path/to/image.jpg
In import-mt.php, you would have to edit in a new switch that handles the import’s $metadata:
case 'CUSTOM':
$custom_data = $value;
break;
Then you’d have to incorporate the database query, probably just before the script prints out “Post imported successfully…”:
if (!$wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE post_id = $post_id AND meta_value = $custom_data")) {
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->postmeta (post_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES ($post_id, 'image', $custom_data) ");
}
Note I inserted ‘image’ as the meta_key; use whatever makes sense here.
Thanks! This seemed to work perfectly… just had to remember to put quotes around $custom_data because what I was trying to import was a string (“image123.jpg”).
I’m trying to do this and having issues. I added two fields: One for a path to an image and the other for tags.
I put these in the mt.php file in the import folder:
case 'CUSTOM':
$custom_data = $value;
break;
case 'TAGS':
$tags = $value;
break;
if (!$wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE post_id = $post_id AND meta_value = $custom_data")) {
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->postmeta (post_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES ($post_id, 'image', $custom_data) ");
}
if (!$wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE post_id = $post_id AND meta_value = $tags")) {
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->postmeta (post_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES ($post_id, 'photo', $tags) ");
}
The importing goes fine but neither of the things I’ve added show up. Also…it’s not importing the comments…
