I have moved my blog from MT to WP. All 1,200 posts have Technorati tags embedded into the body of the post via Ecto as follows:
Technorati Tags: $tags$
I would like to import all the Technorati tags into UTW. What is the best way to go about accomplishing this?
UTW has a feature called "Import Embedded Tags" but there is nothing about it in the main documentation that I could find which would help me out. (documentation skips from Convert to Custom).
I'm hoping there is a config setting in the import function where I can say "look for $tags$ and use those as the tags for the corresponding post."
If this is true, and looking at [tag] and [tags] in the Embedded tags section, is UTW smart enough to deal with importing posts with none, one or multiple tags imported in UTW.
If I can do this I am going to be one happy camper! TIA.
Ecto lets you choose the start and end markers <!-- technorati tags start --> <!-- technorati tags end -->, tag separator, location stored (keywords, excerpt, body, extended) and the tag url.
In my old blog, I stored the tags in the body of each post. That's why I want to find the tag(s) associated with each post by parsing the content of each post, insert the tag(s) into wp_tags and create the lookup index in wp_post2_tag.
What I want to know is if UTW's Embedded Tags feature can be hacked to look for the Technorati $tags$ text and use that to do the table inserts.
It doesn't matter how Ecto does it, only if your scripts can identify the embedded tags and do their magic.
Without any documentation of how Embedded Tags works, I'm at a loss as to how this may be done.
Thanks for the great work, if we get this working I bet there are a LOT of people who have made the embedded tag mistake who would like to change over to your system.
Wondering if I need to start digging into the code myself? I would love to see a wiki set up where the documentation can be completed and expanded and advanced usage discussed and addressed.
