Hi MT experts,



I am new to MT. I have been experimenting with MT from the last 2 days.

I have seen many posts regarding migration from other blogs/cms to MT but i dont find any post which explains to move static site to MT. so i am posting my question here.


I guess we need to use some perl/php script to read the html pages and make a MT style import file. But i am not sure how to read those html pages to get the proper MT data and how to handle the links inside the pages.

I would like to know whether its possible to move a normal static site to MT. I have few sites with thousands of html pages.

Your feedback really saves my time.


Thanks in advance


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Asif

Hi everyone,

I'm new to MT as well but I'm faced with the exact same issue only with 2000+ pages. I've been dealing with this for quite some time and it's been a nightmare. I feel helpless. It seems like this is almost an impossibility and I can't make the change since I have so many links in Google, Yahoo, etc. I've actually locked down all the steps to do it in Wordpress, but I'd much rather go with MT.

If anyone could shed any light on how this can be done or if it can be done in MT, I can't even begin to tell you how much it would help.

Thanks to anyone who reads this.

No matter how you look at it, this is a big job that requires a custom solution. You'll need a script of some sort to crawl the page and extract the data you want. If you were to write something in Perl to do this, the HTML::Extract module might be helpful.