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#1 2007-12-28 17:28:37
- Mary
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Importers
Suggesting we keep and update:
- Blogger
- WordPress
Drop:
- b2
Do we keep Movable Type? Does it work?
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Why would you drop MT. It is still used by many and is actively maintained (the latest release as actually not bad at all).
I imported an MT (2.6, iirc) site a few months back. It worked reasonably well, as far as I can remember (at least, I didn’t need to spam the forums with questions… :-)).
Where is that emoji for a solar powered submarine when you need it ?
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Don’t know how difficult it is but I offer to add import from Joomla
Providing help in hacking ATM! Come to courses and don’t forget to bring us notebook and hammer! What for notebook? What a kind of hacker you are without notebok?
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#5 2007-12-29 18:04:51
- Mary
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Philippe: That’s why I was asking, I didn’t know if it worked, if it was needed… :)
I’m going to work on the WordPress importer, then the Blogger one afterwards if no one else claims it/gets to it first.
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#6 2007-12-29 22:28:11
- jeremywood
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Re: Importers
I have been using the Movable Type (File) import method to bring in data from my own home brew database. I found it really easy to build and use text files to the Movable Type import format, and it seems to work fine.
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jeremywood wrote:
I have been using the Movable Type (File) import method to bring in data from my own home brew database. I found it really easy to build and use text files to the Movable Type import format, and it seems to work fine.
And that is an excellent reason to keep the MT importer – because it is supported as an import/export format by a number of other CMS platforms.
But I think everyone would agree on b2; anyone who hasn’t switched by now isn’t likely to.
I am stil disappointed, though, that this is even an issue.
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#8 2008-01-01 22:30:04
- Mary
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If that’s true, perhaps we drop the separate one for Blogger, and simply update the Blogger template+instructions to export in the MT file format?
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First post. I liked MT, but I have decided to leave it. Forum support for free versions takes weeks. I prefer faster replies… instantaniuos not required, but more often than weeks is much appreciated.
Interesting to see that blogs and cms are still being developed. I don’t have development skills, but I can figure out where my web sites are.
I hope the MT importer has been kept.
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@Jim The MT importer is still kept in the Newest versions and it come in two flavours – One to import content from an MT database, and the Other to import content from a Textfile.
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Thank you.
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I used the MT importer to import into Textpattern. Not all categories came over. Some duplicated. The nesting of sub-categories was gone. I was fairly easily able to redo the categories so the main one, the parents, and sub-categories were correct. But since not all copied over, some are missing their parent category. I can fix that easily. It will just take some time.
I used the ‘copy from the mt database’ method.
This is the site I am moving from: http://crestar.drivein-jim.net/crest_of_a_star/
As you can see there are over 100 categories.
Here is the site I am moving things to:
http://crestar.drivein-jim.net/crestar/
I have been looking at the plugin I used, adi_cat_menu , as you can see on the right side the category names are not all one word. Each word of one category is on one line each, so a category can take up several lines. I am trying to figure out how to fix that.
Yes, there are still over 2,000 html pages on that site to incorporate into the blog. That change is taking longer than the move from blog to blog. I work on adding the html to the blog and removing the old html as I have time.
Thank you for any assistance.
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