Migrating from Movable Type 4 to WP 3.0

  • I will be migrating a very large blog from Movable Type 4 to a new WordPress installation this week.

    My concern is redirecting URLs from the old site to the new one.

    I have done lots of searches and research on the topic, but all the information I’m finding appears outdated.

    I’m hoping to avoid leaving the MT blog in place (since I will be moving to a new hosting account as well). Is there an elegant way to redirect the URLS?

    Any suggestions would be appreciated.

    Thanks!!

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  • In WordPress the permalink structure is fairly flexible. You could most likely replicate your existing structure by choosing suitable permalinks.

    Thread Starter dreamingfish

    (@dreamingfish)

    Will the .html version automatically forward to the php version?

    also, you can end permalinks with .html – like
    /%postname%.html/

    Thread Starter dreamingfish

    (@dreamingfish)

    ooh – I didn’t know that! Thanks for the tip. That just might work.

    Note that for the WordPress permalinks to work as I was suggesting and Samuel explained, you would need to remove the real pages that have been created by your MT install.

    Otherwise,if the real pages are still there, they will be served. WordPress only takes over if a real page doesn’t exist.

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