I think you’re not realizing the difference between content and design. Your content is the text of your posts and is what the importer script brings into WordPress via XML. If you’ve done customization to your MT design, that code needs to be moved into a WordPress theme, and the importer script doesn’t deal with that.
So how do I move the customization code into a WordPress theme? With XML too? I am having a hard time finding this info and I am a little new at all this…
Content and design are completely seperate. There is no XML export – or any kind of export – of a theme or design.
You transfer the xhtml, css and php of your MT theme to a WordPress theme:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout
of course – that makes total sense. not sure what I was thinking…
but few more questions-trying to sort this out in my head still…
so if the content is the part that is customized – then I will have to figure out it’s own XML for this “special” content…
Also, i heard /read that the importer doesn’t transfer “tags.” Is that a big deal?
thanks again.
so if the content is the part that is customized – then I will have to figure out it’s own XML for this “special” content…
If the content itself is customized via HTML in the post itself, that will transfer over with the standard export/import.
Also, i heard /read that the importer doesn’t transfer “tags.” Is that a big deal?
I haven’t used the MT importer, so I can’t confirm this, but I wouldn’t call it a “big deal.”
hmm..okay. I was given this task and I am a little clueless at this point. May be back with more questions.
But thanks for everyone’s help. At least i have a slightly better idea of what’s going on…
