{"id":43,"date":"2022-09-14T15:43:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T15:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tiposaurus.co.uk\/?p=43"},"modified":"2024-01-26T23:22:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T23:22:34","slug":"experiences-of-moving-from-movable-type-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tiposaurus.co.uk\/experiences-of-moving-from-movable-type-to-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiences of Moving from Movable Type to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_62 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiposaurus.co.uk\/experiences-of-moving-from-movable-type-to-wordpress\/#Introduction\" title=\"Introduction\">Introduction<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiposaurus.co.uk\/experiences-of-moving-from-movable-type-to-wordpress\/#Process\" title=\"Process\">Process<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiposaurus.co.uk\/experiences-of-moving-from-movable-type-to-wordpress\/#Issues\" title=\"Issues\">Issues<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiposaurus.co.uk\/experiences-of-moving-from-movable-type-to-wordpress\/#Conclusion\" title=\"Conclusion\">Conclusion<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiposaurus.co.uk\/experiences-of-moving-from-movable-type-to-wordpress\/#Update_24_Jan_2006_%E2%80%93_Moving_another_blog\" title=\"Update 24 Jan 2006 &#8211; Moving another blog\">Update 24 Jan 2006 &#8211; Moving another blog<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Introduction\"><\/span>Introduction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>Note: this post was originally written in January 2006 and is unlikely to reflect the current process.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Until recently, I&#8217;d been using Movable Type to operate a music news website, however I&#8217;d installed WordPress 2.0 elsewhere and had it impressed me with how pleasant and satisfying it is to use. What also impressed me was the WordPress theme, <a href=\"http:\/\/binarybonsai.com\/wordpress\/k2\/\">k2<\/a>, which is by the same designer as the infamous (and at one point WordPress default) <a href=\"http:\/\/binarybonsai.com\/kubrick\/\">Kubrick<\/a> theme. Like Kubrick, k2 is clean and functional; it is lovely to look at and to use.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;d made up my mind &#8211; I was going to &#8220;upgrade&#8221; that site from Movable Type 3.2 to WordPress 2.0 (and I intend to do the same with a couple of other websites I had operating on that MT installation. Google led me to a page in the WordPress documentation: <a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Importing_from_Movable_Type_to_WordPress\">Importing from Movable Type to WordPress<\/a>, which looked like it would tell me exactly what I needed to know in the form of a step-by-step guide. By reading that, I learnt that the biggest issue when converting is that of trying to preserve the permanent links, since WordPress and MT each use slightly different structures.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Process\"><\/span>Process<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I followed the guide through the exporting from MT stages and had no problems doing so. When I reached the section on importing the entries to WordPress, I noticed that the guide was significantly out of date. It gives instructions to upload the text file of exported entries which MT generates to your server using FTP, then edit and manually navigate a file called import-mt.php. I&#8217;m using WordPress 2.0 and I couldn&#8217;t find this file where it was supposed to be. Instead I found that the process had been improved vastly since that guide was written.<\/p>\n<p>Once you save the text file of exported entries generated by MT, you can login to the Site Admin section of your WordPress blog and you will find that the rightmost item in the main menu is entitled Import. Clicking on that leads to a screen with various choices of file to import, which includes Movable Type. Then you are asked to choose the text file that MT generated using a file input box. A little `CHMOD`-ing and some options about the import later, I had the articles in my blog and I was ready to set up the redirection of the old articles to their new WordPress locations.<\/p>\n<p>For this I used Alex King&#8217;s solution as suggested by the WordPress Guide: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexking.org\/software\/wordpress\/mt-wp-redirect.zip\">Movable Type template for individual entries<\/a>, which provides templates for Movable Type which simply work out what the new URL will be and redirect the user accordingly. This worked almost perfectly for the individual articles, but that&#8217;s all it handles.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Issues\"><\/span>Issues<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I then noticed the first major problem: I could no longer log into the WordPress Site Admin section, infact I couldn&#8217;t recover my password either! When importing articles, WordPress had prompted me to enter author names or to select a user on this blog to assign the articles to. I wanted them to be assigned to me and there were two separate selection boxes so I selected my _admin_ username from the drop down menus in both and assumed that all would work ok. What actually happened was that WordPress then seemed to create another user with the username admin, but no email address or other details assigned. I was locked out!<\/p>\n<p>My solution to that problem was to manually edit the database, using phpMyAdmin provided by my web host, and delete the extra admin. That didn&#8217;t fix my problem so after a minute or two of panicking I decided to login to the FTP and clear the contents of the WordPress cache folder: \/wp-content\/cache and from that point it was working properly. I don&#8217;t think that this extra user was because of a WordPress bug but instead by something I&#8217;d done (maybe I can blame poor usability for that though).<\/p>\n<p>Another issue I came across was that of setting up redirects for things which Alex King&#8217;s individual entry templates did not cover. And I failed trying to do this but I have no idea why.<\/p>\n<p>`mod_rewrite` has always been a strange beast to me. I have, once or twice, managed to tame it but 99% of the time I can&#8217;t, and this was one of those times &#8211; even though I was copying and pasting code from the WordPress site. I was trying to set up a redirect to point users asking for Movable Type&#8217;s RSS feeds towards the new WordPress ones, but for some reason nothing I did would work properly and I always ended up with a WordPress 404 page. I gave up on this one; it was not a big blog, and the majority of my readers wouldn&#8217;t know what RSS so it&#8217;s not of particular importance. There are also other URLs which weren&#8217;t set up to redirect, for example the MT category and date archives, though again I decided that they weren&#8217;t important enough to try and fail to establish redirects myself.<\/p>\n<p>The last &#8220;problem&#8221; that I had was that none of the old comments on my articles were present in WordPress after converting. There were only four of these though and two were spam so again, not a problem for me.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conclusion\"><\/span>Conclusion<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re reading this article thinking &#8220;Will I bother converting to WordPress?&#8221; then I&#8217;d say, definitely, to go for it. WordPress is an excellent application and will soon make up for any issues encountered with the transition. A lot of the problems that I had were perhaps my fault, but they didn&#8217;t impact me because the blog in question isn&#8217;t a very popular or particularly large blog, so I was able to disregard many issues. If that doesn&#8217;t sound like your blog, then I&#8217;d suggest you read the documentation a lot more thoroughly and take your time at every step to ensure that it&#8217;s done right.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned above, I also plan to convert a couple of other MT powered websites to WordPress so I&#8217;ll report back if the experience is any better &#8211; or worse &#8211; the second time around.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Update_24_Jan_2006_%E2%80%93_Moving_another_blog\"><\/span>Update 24 Jan 2006 &#8211; Moving another blog<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just managed to move another blog from Movable Type to WordPress and it went much better than the last time. There was no problem with an extra admin user being added, and I figured out how to redirect the feeds from the Movable Type blog to the WordPress one using .htaccess. The only problem this time is that the comments still don&#8217;t appear to have imported correctly &#8211; even though the list of imported posts mentioned comments next to the post names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Note: this post was originally written in January 2006 and is unlikely to reflect the current process. Until recently, I&#8217;d been using Movable Type to operate a music news website, however I&#8217;d installed WordPress 2.0 elsewhere and had it impressed me with how pleasant and satisfying it is to use. 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