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Moving Back…

I want to move this site back to MT, only there is one problem. I can’t find a way to get the data out of WP. I’ve found this posts on exports for backups in the WP forums, but that’s not quite what I need. I would think that thanks to the power of MySQL, this shouldn’t be that hard – but as Mike pointed out to me the other night, the database formats are entirely different.

Anyone have any suggestions?

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Christine is an Avenger of Sexiness. Her Superpower is helping Hot Mamas grow their Confidence by rediscovering their Beauty. She lives in the Heights in Houston, Texas, works as a boudoir photographer, and writes about running a Business of Awesome. In her spare time, she loves to knit, especially when she travels. She & her husband Mike have a food blog at Spoon & Knife.

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Christine, This was the closest thing I could find.

(The google search I used, in case you want something else…

http://www.google.com/search?q=moving+from+%22wordpress+to+movable+type%22&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

I have not found anything too “easy.”

I managed to convert back from B2 to MT, and there was a link for WP to MT conversions: http://www.papascott.de/archives/2004/09/01/export-from-wordpress/

I used this post to do my exports from WordPress to MT:

http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/2004/09/03/tool-independence-the-export-format/

I was actually looking into switching from MT to WP – can I ask what is inspiring the move back?

Dang. I was gonna say this but Nessie got there first. Dang. If only WordPress would output static pages, you wouldn’t need to jump through hoops.

One of the things I like about WP are the dynamic pages – my site still seems to load faster than it did with MT. But we’ll see, maybe using dynamic pages in MT will be faster than the way I had my site set up before…

Dynamic pages in MT are very easy to set up…. I have MT on my domain and that’s good for the site that uses it as I’m very concious of the space that that particular domain uses.

Just one word of warning… If you get all your entries into a text file, you may need to edit it before you import it into MT. I did WordPress to MT format to Expression Engine and I had to delete hundreds of blank comments.

http://blog.carthik.net/wpexportv2.phps

is the one i used to go from wp to mt so that i could import from mt format into ee and it worked perfectly.

ROFL! I was just thinking earlier that I could maybe export from WP into pMachine, and from there into MT. Yeah, nothing should be that convoluted, but … still. I’m a desperate girl. I’ll be trying out my options tonight!

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