Description

In the past I did tons of blog conversions. ESME, Movable Type, Wordpress, Typo and now Mephisto. For all some default conversion was available. This time I wanted to try the new version of Movable Type 4. However for Mephisto there is no conversion script available at all. So I created one of my own.

Howto

• Download the script: http://code.gelens.org/hg/scripts/raw-file/f7d9adde671e/mephisto2movabletype.rb.
• Copy mephisto2movabletype.rb to the root directory of your Mephisto install.
• Edit the script to make sure the AUTHOR and CATEGORY variables are correctly set.
• Now run the script: ruby mephisto2movabletype.rb
• Depending on the amount of posts to convert it can take a while. The exported data is written to mephisto_export.txt.
• Now go to your MovableType? install-directory. Copy mephisto_export.txt to import/
• Start your browser and go to settings, choose import, and start the importing process (you don't have to upload the file through the browser, because you copied it into the import/ directory).