Category: WebDev & Code
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WordPress redirects
Moving from movabletype to wordpress has involved several post moving to new locations. The redirection plugin has made adding redirects easy but only once I figured out the correct regular expressions to use. Here’s what I’ve had to use. 1) Old MT pages had .html on the permalink Source: /(d*)/(d*)/(.*).html Target: /$1/$2/$3/ 2) A much…
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Technical notes on migrating from MovableType to WordPress
Having just migrated from MovableType to WordPress here are my notes just in case they help anyone else. Time it’s taken from empty wordpress to viewing complete posts: about 6 hours Time it would take to do now knowing exactly how to solve problems: about 1 hour Time you need to allow…. decide for yourself…
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Goodbye MovableType, hello WordPress
Finally I’ve got around to updating my blog from MovableType to WordPress. If you’re looking at this today (and maybe for another month.. or year) you’ll see the template is still the default WordPress template. Eventually I’ll update it but for now at least the content from all the old posts is still visible. The…