Default category for entries
This setting allows you to assign a category to each imported entry if the entry is uncategorized in the import file. If an entry has a PRIMARY CATEGORY or CATEGORY key specified in the import file, this setting has no effect.
Default post status for entries
Export files produced by Movable Type always specify the status (Published or Unpublished) for each entry contained in the file. If the file you are importing was created using Movable Type's Export feature, this setting does nothing and can be ignored.
However, if your import file came from a blogging system that does not specify the entry status, you can set this option to direct Movable Type to use its value as the status for the imported entries.
If you leave this value blank and the import file you are using does not contain the status of the entries, Movable Type will fall back to the value of the default entry status option found in the weblog's New Entry Defaults settings screen.
Related
For more details see the relevant section of Chapter 9 in the Users and Administrators Guide entitled "Importing and Exporting Weblog Content".
You can download the Users and Administrators Guide here.
End title HTML
See Start Title HTML for details on this option.
Import as me
You have the option of either importing the entries as yourself —the author that you are currently logged in as — or creating new authors for each author name found in the original set of entries. For example, if your weblog is/was a team weblog, you would probably want to recreate the original set of authors, rather than import all of the entries as yourself. Otherwise you probably wish to simply import the entries as yourself.
If importing the entries as you, check the Import as me box.
Password
If you have not selected the "Import as me" option", you will need to set a password which will be assigned to any new authors that are created during the process.
If the name of an author listed for one of the entries you are importing is already being used by an author in the Movable Type system, the entry will be assigned to the existing author, a new author will not be created and the user's password will remain unchanged.
Source File
To import entries previously exported using Movable Type's export format into Movable Type, you have two options: uploading an MT import file, or putting the import file in the import directory in your Movable Type installation.
To upload an import file, browse to where the file is on your computer, and it will be uploaded into Movable Type.
To use the import directory in your Movable Type installation, go into the same directory your mt-config.cgi is in. Go into the import directory and place your import file there.
Source File Encoding
To explicitly set your import file's character encoding
ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
Start title HTML
The Start Title HTML and End Title HTML values are used to identify a post title within the body of an entry. This is useful when importing entries from Blogger, for example, because Blogger posts do not have the concept of a separate title field. If you have named your posts consistently through the use of HTML tags, however, Movable Type can parse your weblog entries to find those titles. For example, if all of your entry titles look like this:
<font class="title">I am a title</font>
Then you could use a value for Title Start HTML of
<font class="title">
and a value for Title End HTML of
</font>
to automatically set the titles of your entries when importing. If found, the title, along with the surrounding HTML, will be removed from the body of your entry.
If you do not fill in these values, or if the relevant HTML cannot be found for a particular entry, the first five (5) words of the entry are used as the title, instead.
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