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movabletype-importer

Movable Type and TypePad Importer

Import posts and comments from a Movable Type or TypePad blog.

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Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.85
[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Permalink Inconsistency after Moving from Typepad to Wor

[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Permalink Inconsistency after Moving from Typepad to Wor: users show bugs, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Permalink Inconsistency after Moving from Typepad to Wor I recently moved my blog, http://www.pawesome.net from Typepad to WordPress.org.
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.82
How to import large blogs

A TypePad-to-WordPress migration was blocked by importer timeouts on small files and image relinking created major manual work.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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I get timeouts after only 3 minutes. Really looking for help because my only other option is to hunker down and write my own node.js importer
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.92
[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Movable Type importer messes up line spacing

[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Movable Type importer messes up line spacing: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Movable Type importer messes up line spacing I have Movable Type and TypePad Importer 0.4.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.92
[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Very slow on large volumes of data

[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Very slow on large volumes of data: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Very slow on large volumes of data I’m in the process of importing a pretty big Movable Type blog to WordPress.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87
[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] silent failing to import all posts

[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] silent failing to import all posts: users show bugs, support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] silent failing to import all posts I’m trying to import 1438 posts from an old Movable Type installation.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
Movable Type or TypePad blog's bug, cannot import some articles(posts)

Movable Type or TypePad blog's bug, cannot import some articles(posts): users show bugs, missing feature, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
Proof Blocked card complete migration and recovery assurance Evidence linked to opportunity
Movable Type or TypePad blog's bug, cannot import some articles(posts) I am a new comer here (Japanese), I tried make my old blog move to Word Press from FC2 blog.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
won't install ?

won't install ?: users show compatibility, migration, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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won't install ?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
corrupts install

corrupts install: users show support, migration, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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corrupts install I used this plugin to import a blog, it worked successfully, except the posts weren’t always imported completely.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
imports one post at a time and says valid URL not provided each time

imports one post at a time and says valid URL not provided each time: users show bugs, support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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imports one post at a time and says valid URL not provided each time It is quite tedious.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Doesn't import all posts.

[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Doesn't import all posts.: users show missing feature, support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Doesn't import all posts.

Competitor Context

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WordPress Importer weak incumbent · intel 88.7 · weakness 80.3
weak incumbent
7 unresolved support thread(s) below-average rating bugs migration 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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Blogger Importer weak incumbent · intel 86.3 · weakness 80.6
weak incumbent
stale update history below-average rating migration bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
source 1 source 2
RSS Importer weak incumbent · intel 84.6 · weakness 89.5
weak incumbent
stale update history below-average rating migration compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check rss publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
LiveJournal Importer praise owner · intel 83.0 · weakness 88.0
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating migration bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
source 1 source 2
Categories to Tags Converter weak incumbent · intel 80.5 · weakness 71.1
weak incumbent
stale update history 19 collected complaint signal(s) support migration 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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Really Simple CSV Importer weak incumbent · intel 77.5 · weakness 68.2
weak incumbent
stale update history 23 collected complaint signal(s) migration support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect ACF layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source 1 source 2
WPML to Polylang praise owner · intel 76.1 · weakness 66.8
praise owner
stale update history 24 collected complaint signal(s) migration missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: multilingual site owners, agencies, and localization teams · Wedge: detect WPML translation gaps, broken language routes, and localized metadata drift
source 1 source 2
WP Options Importer praise owner · intel 75.5 · weakness 66.2
praise owner
stale update history 8 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight export jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
source 1 source 2

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Collected Signals

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complaint How to import large blogs support · 2025-09-09T11:47:48+00:00 · high severity · importer

A TypePad-to-WordPress migration was blocked by importer timeouts on small files and image relinking created major manual work.

Evidence: I get timeouts after only 3 minutes. Really looking for help because my only other option is to hunker down and write my own node.js importer
migration performance large blog import migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint Import Images from Typepad to WordPress support · 2025-03-21T14:17:01+00:00 · medium severity · importer

Import Images from Typepad to WordPress: users show support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Import Images from Typepad to WordPress Anyone have any advice as to how to import and download images from the Typepad .txt export, now that the Auto Upload Images plugin no longer works?
support migration reliable import migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint URL is still http… support · 2023-06-26T10:36:45+00:00 · medium severity · importer

URL is still http…: users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: URL is still http… https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/movabletype-importer/stable/nl-be/default/?filters%5Bstatus%5D=either&filters%5Boriginal_id%5D=207061&filters%5Btranslation_id%5D=105298240 –> Shouldn’t this be HTTPS?
migration reliable import migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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praise php7.4 (5 stars) review · 2021-09-03T08:55:47+00:00 · medium severity · importer

php7.4: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: php7.4 Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP.
compatibility migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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praise Great plugin! (5 stars) review · 2019-08-07T06:00:18+00:00 · medium severity · importer

Great plugin!: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Great plugin!
quality migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint Movable Type or TypePad blog's bug, cannot import some articles(posts) support · 2016-07-02T00:39:38+00:00 · medium severity · importer

Movable Type or TypePad blog's bug, cannot import some articles(posts): users show bugs, missing feature, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Movable Type or TypePad blog's bug, cannot import some articles(posts) I am a new comer here (Japanese), I tried make my old blog move to Word Press from FC2 blog.
bugs missing feature migration easy migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint Importing MT tags support · 2016-02-24T16:48:16+00:00 · medium severity · importer

Importing MT tags: users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Importing MT tags Has anyone been able to import Moveable Type tags into WordPress?
migration import migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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praise nice plugin (5 stars) review · 2015-07-10T08:45:34+00:00 · medium severity · importer

nice plugin: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: nice plugin Excellent plugin.
quality migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint Permalink Structure support · 2015-01-15T04:05:17+00:00 · medium severity · importer

Permalink Structure: users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Permalink Structure When importing posts, the permalinks all end up with underscores separating words.
migration value import migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint accented characters!!! (1 star) review · 2014-12-04T15:12:09+00:00 · medium severity · importer

accented characters!!!: users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: silently stops importing text at the first accented character encountered in text not even a warning… thanks!
migration import migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint imports one post at a time and says valid URL not provided each time support · 2014-08-20T20:49:16+00:00 · medium severity · importer

imports one post at a time and says valid URL not provided each time: users show bugs, support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: imports one post at a time and says valid URL not provided each time It is quite tedious.
bugs support migration value migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint Importing TypePad — Says done, but no posts support · 2014-04-22T00:50:51+00:00 · medium severity · importer

Importing TypePad — Says done, but no posts: users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Importing TypePad — Says done, but no posts I have downloaded Typepad entries, uploaded them to WP-content and fired off the importer.
migration import migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint Importing Squarespace blog – no posts support · 2013-07-23T20:19:06+00:00 · medium severity · importer

Importing Squarespace blog – no posts: users show missing feature, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Importing Squarespace blog – no posts Hi, I exported my squarespace (version 5) blog in xml format.
missing feature migration form migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint Showing a blank screen support · 2013-06-15T23:55:45+00:00 · medium severity · importer

Showing a blank screen: users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Thanks, Noah http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/movabletype-importer/ All of a sudden, when I try to add a new redirect rule I get a blank screen.
migration import migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint corrupts install support · 2013-04-04T01:49:49+00:00 · medium severity · importer

corrupts install: users show support, migration, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: corrupts install I used this plugin to import a blog, it worked successfully, except the posts weren’t always imported completely.
support migration setup value migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint compatibility with 3.5 support · 2013-01-24T18:23:30+00:00 · medium severity · importer

compatibility with 3.5: users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: thank you, Ann http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/movabletype-importer/ when will this plugin be tested for compatibility with WP 3.5?
migration import migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint [Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Fails on any post with diacritics, non-standard quote ma support · 2012-09-24T21:17:38+00:00 · medium severity · importer

[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Fails on any post with diacritics, non-standard quote ma: users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: [Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Fails on any post with diacritics, non-standard quote ma I just imported 1,300 posts from a a TypePad account with this plug-in.
migration value import migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint [Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Very slow on large volumes of data support · 2012-08-16T02:03:02+00:00 · medium severity · importer

[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Very slow on large volumes of data: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: [Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] Very slow on large volumes of data I’m in the process of importing a pretty big Movable Type blog to WordPress.
bugs compatibility performance migration migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint [Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] silent failing to import all posts support · 2012-05-19T21:03:00+00:00 · medium severity · importer

[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] silent failing to import all posts: users show bugs, support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: [Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] silent failing to import all posts I’m trying to import 1438 posts from an old Movable Type installation.
bugs support migration setup migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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complaint [Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] All letters deleted after accented characters support · 2011-12-24T18:52:50+00:00 · medium severity · importer

[Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] All letters deleted after accented characters: users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: [Plugin: Movable Type and TypePad Importer] All letters deleted after accented characters When I run the importer by placing mt-export.txt into the /wp-content folder, I end up with every single post truncated as all letters after the first accented letter dissapear after the import (including the accented letter).
migration import migration and recovery assurance Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight importer jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs
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