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