Movable Type to Wordpress?

[ronnie]

Curious if any one has moved a movable type blog over to wordpress? They said it is easy. But seems it would make all new pages, and it would be like starting all over again, dont want to do that. And wondered if you could use same categories, or match them up?

Any experience would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[walrus]

Can't give you a nice warm fuzzy feeling since I've never done it but I doubt there would be problems with categories. The only issue you might have is playing around with permalinks to get all your page URI's right.

The only other issue I can think of would be comments and since I know you had them disabled on your MT blogs that wouldn't be an issue.

[ronnie]

My only thing is I doubt wordpress can duplicate my MT pages, so I guess they get blown away, well new pages and page names...:( I have'nt found real detailed how things work, after the import. Have to do some more reading.

As far as comments, one reason I want to switch over. A new mainstream blog I created with wordpress and some nice plug-ins for comment spam, works well. MT does'nt have near the plug-ins.

Sure wish I'd started with WP. Oh well, lessons learned..lol

[cd34]

You might be able to take your existing page layout and map it to wordpress using mod_rewrite. Something like:


RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^oldpagename.html$ /newpagename.html [R,L]


Depending on the number of pages you have, you could do a handwritten set of rules for the transition depending on how important it is to keep the old links. Granted, a very large site might end up having a large set of rules.

[ronnie]

You might be able to take your existing page layout and map it to wordpress using mod_rewrite. Something like:


RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^oldpagename.html$ /newpagename.html [R,L]


Depending on the number of pages you have, you could do a handwritten set of rules for the transition depending on how important it is to keep the old links. Granted, a very large site might end up having a large set of rules.

Ya, thats an idea, and I appreciate it. Just have quite a few pages and getting all the page names, ect. It's a thought, thanks..:)