The Playground

I uninstalled this plugin after discovering it no longer worked with the newest version of Movable Type and was delighted to read in a comment from Jesse Gardner:

Just wanted to let you know that there is a hackish workaround for TypeMover. I just used it the other day and it complained because it couldn't find mt.cfg -- so what I did was make a copy of my mt-config.cgi and called it mt.cfg, and it worked like a charm.

I've tested it myself after re-installing and can confirm that it works beautifully. I'm happy again!

Download the plugin from Zonageek and upload to your mt/plugins directory. The trick is to get the path right to your mt folder. On my install it goes something like:

ftp://username:password@ftp.bestoday.com.au/public_html/cgi-bin/mt

From there you can back up and restore all your weblog data, including settings, templates, categories, authors, notification subscriptions, trackbacks and pings.

TypeMover is one of those must-have tools if you need to re-install or move your mt installation to another server.