Comments on: Importing large MovableType text files.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:28:27 +0000

By the way I think that the easiest way to import large number of posts into WP is to break manualy MT’s text file with exported blog.
For some reason I was not able to import to WP file of size over 1Mb. So I edited the file cut around half of it and paste to new file. Than import those two separate files into WP.
Thanks to that I did not have to use separate template in MT, rebuild the archives and so on.
Quick, easy and it worked for me fine

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:02:57 +0000

The link to Library Planet article with tips on importing has moved to the following address http://www.libraryplanet.com/2004/05/16/imports

By: lisanne

lisanne — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:48:11 +0000

Where do you find the php.ini file?

By: Steph

Steph — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:29:00 +0000

Another possibility is to edit php.ini and change the max. memory setting. I had trouble with a 2Mb file, even when split in half. I changed the value for memory_limit (being drastic, went straight for 100Mb instead of the default memory_limit = 8M) and it worked fine. Put the limit back down when I was done.