Does it require a more recent version of MT than 3.3? I am trying to move a blog from MT 3.3 to WP and so far, am not able to successfully use this plugin. When I upload the file generated by MT as per the instructions, I get an error message:

# ** Warning ** Post not found.

But there does not seem to be anything in the file other than the cut and pasted script – it is only 1 KB. In MT, as I went through the process, I noted that there is:

No choice for “Design/templates”, just “Templates”

No option for “Custom Index template” – just “create new index template”

If I use title “wordpress_export.txt”, when it is imported to WP, the end of the file name is “.txt.txt”

There is a field for “link to file”, left empty as instructed

The option for publishing “statically” is found in “Settings” (“Build all templates statically)

Does it make any difference whether the box is checked to rebuild the template automatically when rebuilding index templates?

Or whether just the file or the entire site is rebuilt? (I tried both and got the same result)

Thanks and grand work!

Perhaps something changed in the meantime in the WordPress codebase which prevents the tool from working properly.

I found this tool; looked promising, but it refused to import tags for about 90% of my entries.

I kept trying and trying; discovered that if I used Wordpress 2.7 instead of 2.9.2, that it would import them fine.

So setup your blog with 2.7, import using the tag tool, and then upgrade WP

What would solve everything would be for the MT entry key to get mapped to the WP post_id during import (rather than having WP generate new ID’s).

I’ve already modified the MT template to include the ID in the exported file.

There used to be a hack for WP 2.0 to migrate the post ID’s but it doesn’t work with 2.9. Your importer script is the closest thing I’ve seen to a solution. Would you at least be able to help me tweak the current core import script to map the MT keys to the WP post_ID?