I wrote my export script a while ago, back when there was a real need for it for WordPress 2.0-2.1 and Movable Type 3.3. Movable Type 4.X includes an importer for WordPress' content that is exported as RSS data. Anyone switching to Movable Type from WordPress really ought to give that a shot, as it is going to be a lot better supported by Sixapart, than my export script is going to be supported by me these days.
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Whoops... forgot to migrate the instructions for how to run the script from my main blog to this one.
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Grab it here. Bugs? Leave me a detailed description of what went wrong, including error messages.
WordPress 2.3 dropped a few tables that were used in previous versions of WordPress that my script assumed to exist. I have no idea why the WordPress team saw fit to make this change, as I cannot see how they gained anything from merging tags and categories into the terms table. Seems to me to be an asinine way of changing things, but we already know that I am not all that big on WordPress anymore. I've got a preliminary fix in the works that works on a VMware image of Xubuntu where I have installed a copy of WordPress 2.3 on a typical LAMP setup. I'm not ready to release it into the wild yet because I haven't really had a chance to test it out yet. I'll finish up the testing tonight, and hopefully have it uploaded here.
Download it here. It contains a bug fix for the trackback output that generates the dates the same way that it does for the comments. Let's call this... version 1.3....
I installed Movable Type 4.0 on a test domain and database, and lo and behold, it appears that they have completely dropped the original import system. This means that if my WordPress to Movable Type Export script is to be able to help out people who are using Movable Type 4.0 (when it comes out of beta), I will have to rewrite much of it from scratch. The new backup system is actually very slick, but it is actually now for storing an entire blog it would seem. That's a real change from the days when it just exported entries, comments and trackbacks.
I incorporated Jim Carson's bug fixes into the script, and now for lack of a better version number, it's been moved up to version 1.2. So far, so good with the export. I tested it on my fiance's blog without any discernible problems. Obviously, if you encounter any bugs, please leave a good description of the bugs in the comments section.
If you need to export your WordPress database to Movable Type's export file format, you can use this script which leverages WordPress' APIs to make it relatively easy to move back and forth between these two blog suites. It's free, no license. Download here.
