Importing Markdown posts to WordPress

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2007-12-26 à 11:40, Dr. Drang a écrit :


> I apologize for being off-topic, but I think there's more expertise on

> this list than I'll find elsewhere.

>

> I'm thinking about moving my blog from Movable Type 3.2 to WordPress.

> As a test, I've set up a local WP installation and imported my old

> posts--all of which are written in Markdown. They look awful,

> primarily because the blocks of source code in many of my posts are

> not being imported properly. Here is what I've done:

>

> 1. Exported the MT 3.2 posts using MT's builtin export command.

> 2. Installed WP and the PHP-MarkdownExtra plugin. Activated the  

> plugin.

> 3. Imported into WP the text file that came out of the MT export  

> process.

>

> The biggest problem seems to be that WP isn't recognizing the Markdown

> formatting of the exported posts. What should be enclosed by

> <pre><code>...</code></pre> are enclosed by simple paragraph tags

> instead.

>

> Has anyone here experienced and solved this problem?


I'd suggest you try the following to find out where's the problem. In  
WordPress, check that if you create a new post it is correctly  
converted by PHP Markdown Extra (try create a code block) to make  
sure the plugin works as expected. If that works, open (edit) an  
imported post (with a code block) and see if it properly Markdown- 
formatted.


Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
http://michelf.com/