Blogging with Movable Type
Friday afternoon I had a huge scare while playing with iBlog. I won’t go into all the details, but suffice it to say that I thought I lost half of my entries (they were still there), and then, once I found them, I found that all the dates were wrong. I probably could have fixed the problem, but decided to look into other blogging software instead. Saturday Andrew installed Moveable Type for me and converted all my iBlog files to a format MT could import. I then tweaked all of the entries, uploaded all my images (and made thumbnails — cool!), and changed all the blog-to-blog links.
Don’t get me wrong, iBlog is a good package. However, I like that with MT I can edit pages on the web from any computer. (Though, with my Mac’s Airport occasionally fazing out for no reason, I may regret that…) I’ll probably play around with the style sheet and templates in the coming weeks, but for now I like the nice, clean look of the new pages.
Oh, I so need your help. I need to do the same converstion. Can you tell me how you did it, or help me.
Sorry, David, my fiance did all of the work…I just smiled cutely and asked nicely and next thing I knew I had all my iBlog stuff in MT format (more or less).
Actually, Andrew said he’d see if he still has the Python scripts he used to do it, and I can send them to you or point you to them if he finds them.
I’ve made the script available. I can provide some help with running it, but you’re probably going to need to hack the code a bit (to change the default user name to something other than “Barb”, for example).