Tutorial

The migration principle is rather simple:

• You have to export the blog content in a MovableType format with the skin I created : _MtExport
• You need to tidy it up a bit.
• You import it in WordPress with its import tool
• You smile

I had to create a skin to be able to export most of the blog data. Previous existing plugins were either useless nor downloadable. So I tried to match most of the Movable Type specifications:  Movable Type import/export format. _MtExport can export :

• AUTHOR
• TITLE
• BASENAME
• DATE
• STATUS
• ALLOW PINGS
• ALLOW COMMENTS
• PRIMARY CATEGORY
• CATEGORY: (Toutes les autres)
• KEYWORDS: (les tags)
• BODY

About the comments, they are present and their important fields too :

• COMMENT:
  • AUTHOR
  • EMAIL
  • DATE
  • URL
  • IP

Rather complete ? So, dive into this guide to know the rest and download the skin  _MtExport. Continue reading →