I just went through the manual process to move my Movable Type 3.3 blog out of the Blogs at Penn State pilot into the brand spanking new MT 4 that we have running ... really simple stuff and I will try to give a basic run down of the steps. I also created a quick screencast that follows me on my adventure. I then discovered a nice little way to batch add tags since the export/import doesn't carry tags forward. First the steps in manually moving a blog from 3.3 to MT 4:
Doing this currently does effect:
- Log into MT 3.3
- Select Blog to move
- Export entries -- this gives a downloaded txt file
- Log into MT 4
- Create an identical blog (same path, but could have a different name, etc -- only path is critical)
- Import txt file -- this is possible now in MT 4
- Publish new blog
- Log into MT 3.3
- Delete original Blog from MT 3.3
Doing this currently does effect:
- Any custom template
- Any custom style
- Custom widgets
- Settings (default/custom comment settings & entry preferences)
- Tags don't get moved during export/import
- RSS feeds for tags
Here is the whole process ... it gets a little boring as my blog publishes, but should get the point across. Take a look at the screencast.
Batch setting tags is very simple ... I did a quick screencast on that process as well.
