Comments on: Migration to WordPress

By: iainlbc

iainlbc — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:35:37 +0000

Hi Greg,

This post is a bit old but I had some light to shed on the topic if you don’t mind.

To handle URL Redirection (post-migration) I choose to install the “Redirection” Plugin. The best part about it for anyone looking to do a migration is it logs all 404 errors and gives you an easy way to make rewrite rules from a front end GUI.

While its advisable to implement a redirect strategy before moving over and causing thousands of 404′s, its a great way to catch and fix 404′s that were not prevented in the original plan.

A perfect example of this is there were thousands of 404′s logged of people hitting our old MT Search engine. With Direction and some simple regular expressions I was able to redirect all of those search queries to the new wordpress search engine without getting my hands dirty.

Examples shown in more detail here:
http://www.iainlbc.com/2010/04/forward-old-movable-type-search-traffic-to-wordpress-search-engine-using-redirection-plugin/

By: Blends

Blends — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:30:05 +0000

You make the right choice wordpress is the great cms for blog. When using wordpress you will never use other cms.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:45:23 +0000

Hey Greg – great minds (er, ok, ) must think alike!

I did the same with my major site – I still use blogger for the main blog site but my actual business site is now running on WordPress as my entire CMS.

I too found the entire process fairly easy.

By: Glenn Berry

Glenn Berry — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:05:30 +0000

Two blog posts in one day, I am in shock… I still think we should bronze WEB1.

By: gregr

gregr — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:14:49 +0000

Re theme – nope…I started from scratch with a new theme. I was tired of the old one anyway. :-)

By: mike

mike — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:08:35 +0000

Do you know a good way to migrate the theme too?

By: Nick Harris

Nick Harris — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:29:18 +0000

Come on Greg! I had WP running on my dev box (Windows) for a long time while I was working on the WordPress and Publisher plugin’s for Inbox.

It is really easy to install – better than Moveable Type but not as easy as CommunityServer… if I remember right.