Comments on: Import MT bug fix

By: Kathy K

Kathy K — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:22:17 +0000

Try splitting up the import into smaller files. Then see where the error first appears. Split it into four 1MB files, for instance, and importone at a time until you get an error. Then take the one you got an error on, and split it in half, etc… (requires clearing out the db each time). It’s a pain but it works.
That was how I was doing it before Carthik did his new import.

I did find one thing that messed up authors, besides dashes, was a bug coming out of the MT export that was giving me blank authors on some posts. Seemed to be caused by things like using the trademark or a Euro in a post, without using the proper hex code.

By: Ruby Sinreich

Ruby Sinreich — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 03:15:03 +0000

This definitely helped me with those errant dashes in the MT export. (Too bad I spent an hour yesterday trying to manually edit out the dashes in a 4MB text file!)

But my posts are still coming through as the wrong author and not even consistently. ie: sometimes A shows up as B, and sometime A shows up as C. Any ideas what might be causing this?

By: chartoo

chartoo — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:45:42 +0000

A big heartfelt thanks to you both.
The script worked like a charm.

By: Kathy K

Kathy K — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:37:53 +0000

They are in several directories. Unfortunately one of those is my main directory.

By: Kathy K

Kathy K — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 02:16:14 +0000

Not without changing all my static (non-MT) .shtml pages to PHP.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 01:59:02 +0000

Kathy - couldn’t you just change your htaccess file to process shtml like php?

By: Kathy K

Kathy K — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:53:29 +0000

That’s it.
That’s the one I mentioned above on the list of three (I had forgotten about the php version because I couldn’t use it.)

By: Kathy K

Kathy K — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:49:38 +0000

P.S. You were smart to have gone with PHP to start! I knew Perl and SSI and didn’t want to use PHP and have to learn something new. And now I am learning it anyway.

By: Kathy K

Kathy K — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:46:51 +0000

I’ve seen that one. My original pages were shtml; though, so I can’t use the PHP script (which does permanent redirects) and I didn’t want to use the one with meta redirects. I can’t use my .htaccess to parse shtml as php because I still have active .shtml pages.
I will take a look at it for others though (if I can find it — I did find it once)!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:22:12 +0000

Kathy - There is a script that Alex King created that you paste into your MT individual templates (then rebuild your site in MT) - and (based on the title) will guess what the WP url (with post slugs) will be and redirects (directly in the html pages) to the appropriate WP page.

I’m running it on this site and it’s working perfectly.

I’m having trouble finding the script though… I’ll keep looking if you’re interested.