Not importing comments from movabletype

  • I just installed wordpress and I ran the mt import script from the admin on the exported text file from movable type v 3.2 and all the entries seemed to have imported fine, but none of the comments came over.

    I double checked and the comments are in the exported mt file, so what happened? Help!

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  • Can anybody help? I am dealing with exactly the reverse of this situation–I hope to migrate my posts from my spam-infested Movable Type 3.17 without importing the comments themselves. After a long period of neglect, I discovered belatedly that my server is not compatible with Blacklist (long story) and a ton of comments spam got through to MT (Ca. 22,000–around this time my MT quit letting me do bulk deletes!). My question is this–is there a way to execute the migration to WP that would leave off the old comments altogether? i.e., importing only the original content of the posts themselves?

    I am still new to the developer side of this stuff, so please bear with me, but I would really appreciate any help you can offer–I would hate to abandon the several months of posts that I have at the Movable Type blog just because it got too spammed to save.

    Hi Jenny –

    I had the same problem as you and wrote a little PHP script that strips all the comments from the MT export file. Helped me get a 22MB export file down to 400k of actual posts, and WordPress handled it perfectly. Hope it works for you!

    My post about it is here:
    https://www.seldo.com/weblog/blogmonths/b200601.php#blog3408

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