Title: Movable Type Import Problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Movable Type Import Problem

 *  [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/movable-type-import-problem-1/)
 * So I’m working on a migration of a pretty big blog to WordPress. I’ve run one
   test import and it worked beautifully including tags and categories – impressive.
   However, the authors are completely screwed up. I have over 50 authors and none
   of the migrated posts are showing the correct author – it seems as if authors
   have been randomly assigned to the posts, I can’t find any pattern. Anyone have
   any thoughts on this? Right now, wordpress hasn’t been modified at all, just 
   a totally vanilla template set, no plugins. I have re-run the import script and
   it still randomly assigns authors to posts….

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 *  Thread Starter [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/movable-type-import-problem-1/#post-1045276)
 * Responding to myself as I’d like to try this again.
 * Any advice for a massive migration like this? 3500+ posts, 6000+ comments, 60
   + authors?
 * Should I do this in batches somehow?
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/movable-type-import-problem-1/#post-1045277)
 * okay, bam, failure due to some kind of memory overload. And once again the authors
   are randomly assigned to posts. any ideas how to set php to handle more?
 * The error:
 * Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   35 bytes) in /usr/www/users/…path…./wordpress/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 
   302
 *  [torx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/torx/)
 * (@torx)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/movable-type-import-problem-1/#post-1045320)
 * I was having the same problem with a large WPMU import. I muddled about a bit
   and seemingly found a solution.
 * The only caveat is that I am _not_ creating new users with the script, and I 
   haven’t tested to see how this alters that function.
 * I changed a line in /wp-admin/import/mt.php
 * Line 106 changed from:
 * `$key = array_search($author, $this->mtnames); //find the array key for $author
   in the $mtnames array`
 * Line 106 changed to:
 * `$key = array_search($author, $this->get_mt_authors()); //find the array key 
   for $author in the $mtnames array`

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [torx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/torx/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/movable-type-import-problem-1/#post-1045320)
 * Status: not resolved

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