bhw

This looks like it’s going to work. Thank you so much for the patch. I was horrified to see that none of my comments had been imported, even though the import message said they were.

The biggest annoyances:

–As a new WP user, I had no idea where to delete all the newly imported posts so I could start over. The Manage page doesn’t seem to let you delete posts in batches, just one at a time. (Is that right?) I finally saw that I could delete the posts by deleting the user name associated with them.

–In retrospect, it would be great (new feature alert!) if the import tool would give you the option of overwriting previously imported posts, so that you wouldn’t have to delete the posts to import a “newer” version of them with the same title.

–When recreating the user name and reimporting the posts, the numbering for the user names and posts started where it left off the last time. So on a completely new installation of WP, I was up to user ID 12 (I chopped my MT export file to bits for the import, and a new user was created for each file import) and my first post starting with #400-something. So I asked my web host to blow my installation and db away and do a fresh install. I’d just like it to start off a clean and logical.

That said, the import looks to be pretty darn simple. I’ve been waiting to migrate from MT for a while — the improved import feature was just what I’ve been waiting for.

Thanks again for the patch ….