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.
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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?
The 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.
Paul,
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.
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.
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