Recently it has come to our attention that many Movable Type users have been disenchanted with the required licensing for Movable Type Version 3.0. If you are one of these users we have great news for you. You can move your entire blog to us and not lose anything. SpyBlog has a specific Import feature for Movable Type. In fact you won't lose any of your categories or comments either! There are three steps that involve roughly six clicks. Below we will show you the steps needed to Import a complete Moveable Type Blog! If you like what you see... Try it FREE for 30 days! Let's consider this little Movable Type blog, pictured in its entirety below:

This blog doesn't have just entries, it has categories. I'd like to be able to not only import those categories; I also want to import my categorizations. In other words, if I had an article posted under Category X in my Movable Type blog, I'd also want it under Category X in SpyBlog blog.

There's more: some of the entries have comments. The comments don't just contain the title and text of the comments, but also the URLs and emails addresses of the people who left them. If I were to switch blogging tools, I'd want to take them along.

SpyBlog's Import tool makes switching easy. For this simple blog, it took me under a minute to export Movable Type-to-SpyBlog and I wasn't rushing.

Before you can import your blog you must export from Movable Type. This is a one-click process that takes your blog and turns it into a text file which you can save on your hard drive.

Once you have this file, you can import it into SpyBlog. It's a simple matter of logging into SpyBlog and calling up its Import feature, shown below:

In the screenshot above, I've selected the Movable Type option (which imports Movable Type and TypePad blog export files) and selected the export file. I've also checked the Create categories referenced in import file checkbox, which tells SpyBlog that I want to import my Movable Type categories.

Clicking the Preview Entries button starts the importing process. There are two ways to go through this process:

Let's review the first entry to be imported:

A quick glance to the Categories listing confirms that the categories under which this article was posted were also read in:

...and a glance down shows that the Comments, along with all the information attached to them, were read in too.

SpyBlog offers many options when importing a blog, as you can see below.

I took the simple route and clicked the Import All button. Since the blog was a small one, it took only a couple of seconds, and the process was complete. A click of the View Blog button in SpyBlog's Control Panel gave me this:

A click on the permalink for the "Chicken and Waffle" entry gave me this:

The move is complete, and everything -- entries, comments, categories -- is intact. Just as the movers made moving into my house much easier, SpyBlog's import tool made "moving in" quite painless. In fact, if we count starting from SpyBlog's import tool page, the move from Movable Type to SpyBlog took six clicks!