From BlogWare to WordPress - Part Deux
Getting the code out of BlogWare and into WordPress was one thing. Getting everything else to work well has been something of a task. All my old URLs didn’t have any helpful keywords in them, so the 404 redirect script I found wasn’t working as effectively as it might have. Shayne pointed out that both the old URLs and new URLs have date information in them, so it would just take a little scripting before things would work easier for all those search engine visitors. I’ve got a new Google Sitemap submitted, FWIW.
I remembered the WP-Hackers, which we used to develop a Gada.be plugin - both standalone, and for the amazingly awesome Ultimate Tag Warrior. I posted my request, and received several satisfactory answers. Mark Jaquith responded with a single line of code that needed to be placed at the top of the .htaccess file. Easy. Done. Awesome.
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4 Comments
Aaron Brazell
May 20th, 2006
at 4:34am
Mark is the man, no doubt. I had to do something similar for a mass Nucleus migration to WordPress and I just redirected to the new domains instead of trying to do a mass lookup between two servers, two blog platforms, with two different permalink styles. Anyways, good luck.
Aaron
Marcel
May 20th, 2006
at 4:46pm
Hopefully you get everything sorted quickly.
Just a heads-up for you that the RSS feed no longer looks like this page should in Thunderbird. When I looked in the message source it’s missing the stylesheet. Oddly enough the last one to show up fine was ‘From BlogWare to WordPress’ :)
Library 2.0 :: Exporting from Blogware and Importing into Wordpress
August 3rd, 2006
at 8:30am
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Pingwellesley.com :: Migrating your blog posts over to WordPress
September 25th, 2006
at 2:45pm
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