Movable Type

Additional Dependencies

This importer requires the following additional libraries.

You may install the needed gems individually by running gem install GEM_NAME or install all of them with a single invocation:gem install mysql2 pg safe_yaml sequel sqlite3

Invocation

Sample snippet to invoke the importer:

jekyll-import mt --dbname DB --user USER --engine ENGINE --password PW --host HOST --port PORT --blog_id ID --categories --src_encoding ENCODING --dest_encoding ENCODING --comments

Option <PARAM>	Description
`--dbname DB`	Database name.
`--user USER`	Database user name.
`--engine ENGINE`	Database engine (‘mysql’ or ‘postgres’).	Default: `'mysql'`
`--password PW`	Database user’s password.	Default: `''`
`--host HOST`	Database host name.	Default: `'localhost'`
`--port PORT`	Custom database port connect to.	Default: `null`
`--blog_id ID`	Specify a single Movable Type blog ID to import.	Default: `null (all blogs)`
`--categories`	When true, save post’s categories in its YAML front matter.	Default: `true`
`--src_encoding ENCODING`	Encoding of strings from database.	Default: `UTF-8`
`--dest_encoding ENCODING`	Encoding of output strings.	Default: `UTF-8`
`--comments`	When true, output comments in `_comments` directory.	Default: `false`

Highlighted row(s) in table above indicate required options.

comments, which defaults to false, control the generation of comment. If comments set to true, posts will be generated and placed in _comments directory.

All of the posts and comments will include post_id in YAML front matter to link a post and its comments.

To include imported comments as part of a post, use the yet to merge fork of mt-static-comments to include statically generate comments in your post. Fork and provide feedback if necessary.

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