4 May, 2009
mtexport plugin
I have created a new plugin, called mtexport, which will export a LifeType blog to the Movable Type Import Format file. This format is can be imported into WordPress.
The reason that I created this plugin, is because I am moving my blogs to Wordpress. I have been happy with LifeType, but but I am getting tired of added features myself. Often when I see some software that is available for other blogs, I have to port it myself. This is what I did with AddThis, Akismet, Twitter, Related articles plugin, http::BL, and reflection.
I don't want to spend the time creating plugins for the cool new features, so I am just going to switch to WordPress where there is a large library of plugins.
Technorati tags: mtexport, LifeType, plugin, WordPress
I was wondering how long it would take you to switch over to the "dark side" of WordPress.
I think I imported RSS Directly (posts + comments) when I switched over from whatever I was using before (can't even remember it). Is that not possible with LifeType->WordPress?
Posted by slacy 04 May 2009, 11:00The problem with rss->Wordpress, is that I would loose all comments.
Also, currently my rss feed doesn't contain all of my items. I am sure that I could change that, but I like a challenge.
Posted by Paul Westbrook 04 May 2009, 12:10Paul, I am sorry to hear about you plan move to wordpress .. :( BTW, another challenge will be export resources to wordpress and change all related urls in articles to new wordpress urls.
Posted by Mark 04 May 2009, 19:00 
What I was planning on doing for resources (and I have done this on my other blog http://www.thirdtimedad.com) is to leave LifeType running, just at a different path. Then I would write mod_rewrite rules to redirect those requests.
Posted by Paul Westbrook 06 May 2009, 15:04