(Well, besides “Dump it and go with WordPress”. You already know that.)
Basically watch out for dashes when you import/export posts. The text file you import is separated by 5-8 dashes in its features, so if you have some yutz who writes:
“Here are my thoughts:
………………………………..
blah, blah, blah blah”
It is going to screw you up if you ever import that post back INTO MT at a later date.
Elsewhere on my site, I am recreating my entire Whuzzup archives (going all the way back to 1998), and I am triple-checking all my “import.txt” files. What a bitch.
Then I’m switching to WordPress. I was successful with SoApBoX, and I really like HAVING my stuff on a MySQL database. (I hate CGI).
More news coming up for comic book fans next…. STAY TUNED!
Good tip and one I’ll remember. Thanks!
Good tip, -=e=-… Hey, why are you knocking MT so badly, and whats so great about WordPress?
MT is still good… but I’m just dissapointed in the ridiculous prices they put up for 3.0. I have to set up a ton of work related blogs and management saw the licensing fees and had a heart attack!
WordPress has a lot of features I need (pre-approval of comments, I can re-write some of the scripts to be more flexible, and since it’s MySQL-based, my entries can keep the same URL’s if I ever have to take them down and put them back up again at a later date.)