editing import-mt.php for misused fields

The order in which the elements are “taken out” from the txt file (by import-mt.php) matters.

Assuming you don’t mind trying something I haven’t tested myself for your particular scenario (I had done something similar though), after starting with a fresh, unaltered import-mt.php file, follow these steps:
1.) Look for this:
// We're going to put extended body into main body with a more tag
preg_match("|-----\nEXTENDED BODY:(.*)|s", $post, $extended);
$extended = trim($extended[1]);
if ('' != $extended) $extended = "\n<!--more-->\n$extended";
$post = preg_replace("|(-----\nEXTENDED BODY:.*)|s", '', $post);
Change the third and fourth lines to this:
$post_content = addslashes(trim($extended[1]));
//if ('' != $extended) $extended = "\n<!--more-->\n$extended";
2.) Look for this:
// Now for the main body
preg_match("|-----\nBODY:(.*)|s", $post, $body);
$body = trim($body[1]);
$post_content = addslashes($body . $extended);
$post = preg_replace("|(-----\nBODY:.*)|s", '', $post);
Change that fourth line to this:
$excerpt = addslashes($body);
That should be it. This assumes that you don’t have any meaningful data in your MT excerpt field because it’ll overwrite the values obtained from the MT excerpt field with the MT body field (since that is where you wanted your WP excerpt to come from).
-Scott

beautiful. This worked perfectly.
The only problem I’m having now is that I’m getting a space above and below the output for the excerpt field. I took a quick look at the CSS. It doesn’t appear to be a CSS issue.
I also went to edit the entry, to make sure there are no spaces above and below the excerpt in the entry form. There aren’t any spaces.
Ideas?

I figured this out… I just needed to comment out this line…
add_filter(‘the_excerpt’, ‘wpautop’);
…in template-functions-post.php

I’m trying to import an old MT photoblog I haven’t yet converted to WP.

I’m using 1.5, and importing works correctly with the import-mt.php file.

I followed the post above that gives code that worked for “emsdc”, I need to use it differently though and can’t figure out how.

I have info in “extended body” in MT that I want to be in ‘excerpt’ in WP.

SoMT EXPORT of mine has this info like this:

EXTENDED BODY: has info in it
EXCERPT: has no info at all in that line

I want to flip flop them in importing into WP. In other words:

I want to use EXTENDED BODY as my EXCERPT and not add EXTENDED BODY to BODY.

I used the above code change for making the BODY from MT become EXCERPT in WP, I used that line and applied it instead to the EXTENDED BODY line.

So when I import — the EXTENDED BODY does import into EXCERPT correctly … but EXTENDED BODY is also being imported into BODY.

I’ve tried this and that and it doesn’t matter what the changes are I have tried, nothing has worked to not import EXTENDED ENTRY into BODY.

So if I could ask someone to give me a clue about what to change so that EXTENDED BODY only imports as EXCERPT, and nothing else is moved at all, I’d be grateful.

To reiterate: I need to BODY import codes to only imort “BODY” and NOT put Extended in BODY.

Hey I figured it out! Here’s what I did.

// We're going to put extended body into main body with a more tag
preg_match("|-----nEXTENDED BODY:(.*)|s", $post, $extended);
$extended = trim($extended[1]);
//if ('' != $extended) $extended = "n<!--more-->n$extended";
$excerpt = addslashes($extended);
$post = preg_replace("|(-----nEXTENDED BODY:.*)|s", '', $post);

To have the EXTENDED BODY post as EXCERPT

// Now for the main body
preg_match("|-----nBODY:(.*)|s", $post, $body);
$body = trim($body[1]);
$post_content = addslashes($body);
$post = preg_replace("|(-----nBODY:.*)|s", '', $post);

To have the BODY be the only thing posting as BODY.

I found coffee2code’s post on his site which and that helped me to reinstate PART of the previous code that I needed to see if it would work … and it did. Thanks!