Comments on: Technical Difficulties

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:36:00 +0000

TAD: I created 413 html pages that redirect. I think it works pretty well. Nobody has complained, anyway. See http://www.dicks-blog.com/archives/2004/11/16/creating-413-web-pages-with-vba/

By: TAD

TAD — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:26:00 +0000

Hi,

Did you ever figure out how to point your old Typepad permalinks back to your new Wordpress site? I'm in a similar situation right now.

Thanks!

Terry

By: Dick

Dick — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:33:00 +0000

Thanks Rob and Paul. All of the solutions I've found require some modification of the MovableType template, to which I don't have access. Right now I'm back to creating my own redirect pages. I'm going live on the new server this weak come hell or high water, so we'll see what happens.

Maybe instead of making a bunch of redirects, I could make a custom 404 page with javascript on it that did the conversion. Anyone know javascript?

By: Paul Hoch

Paul Hoch — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:09:00 +0000

Dick - Alex King wrote a script to do the redirects from MT to WP. Here's a link to a post on it:

http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/03/31/movable-type-redirect-script-for-wordpress/

I haven't used it, so I don't know how well it works, but worth a quick look.

By: Rob van Gelder

Rob van Gelder — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:30:00 +0000

Hi.

Found this thread on rewrite engine rules.

http://wordpress.org/support/?action=vthread&forum=3&topic=13451&page=1

Looks like a regular expression language to me.

You'll have difficulties translating
roll_your_own_c
into
roll-your-own-csv

because it's already truncated...
or will the new site accept
roll-your-own-c
as well?