Edo

I couldn’t get the GM import script to work so I did it the hard way: Greymatter to Movable Type to WordPress. There was some strangeness: even after massaging the data from the MT export, upon import into WP every other entry had no author despite all posts being by the same author, and for the authorless entries the comments were skipped. I ended up having to manually delete and re-import entries one at a time. On re-import (using the same datafile), the comments would show up.

If I’d known it was going to be so complex, I would have just built a data file from scratch, but I didn’t have any idea of what MT’s export looked like.

Also, does anyone know authoritatively when the import scripts were written? I seem to remember reading somewhere that the GM to WP script was originally written for GM to b2. If this is true, perhaps that info should go into the Codex with a YMMV disclaimer.