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1. richards1052
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I just began a WP blog by importing all my posts from typepad. There is a built in naming conflict in that typepad names files like so: .../I_am_a_car.html. While WP would use: .../I-am-a-car-/.

   So a friend tried to help me figure a way to make the old typepad links work in terms of allowing those following my old links to get to the same posts but in my new WP environment. We thought his workaround had worked, but recently I've checked old links & they all take you to a WP screen that says the post couldn't be found on my blog like so:
   http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2004/04/us_iraq_war_dea.html
   whichs must resolve to:
   http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2004/04/us-iraq-war-dea/

   Can anyone think of a handy way to allow my visitors to reach the right post links?

2. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 4 years ago #

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_from_Movable_Type_to_WordPress

   Check the external links at the end:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_from_Movable_Type_to_WordPress#MT_URLs_with_Underscores

   There are a number of redirect methods for handling MT 2 WP linking.

3. richards1052
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   OK, I went there & read just about everything. Following the codex directions, I added this code to my .ht access file:
   
   Redirect Permanent /archives/<$MTEntryID$>.html
http://www.example.com/index.php?s=&lt;$MTEntryTitle encode_url="1"$>

   Also, can you tell me whether the http://www.example.com/index.php reference above means you have to add your full path to your index.php file or just (in my case) http://www.richardsilverstein.com/index.php?

   After saving it & trying an old TP/MT permalink (.html) it still won't convert the permalink properly to a WP permalink.

   I also tried to follow Dan Hersam's instructions ( http://dan.hersam.com/archives/2004/10/05/converting-links-from-mt-to-wordpress ) but he refers to a category archive template & individual archive template & I have no idea what they are or where they're located.

   I wish to hell someone would write a plugin to do this. It's so damn complicated (at least for me).

4. richards1052
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Problem solved! See my last post in the thread at
   

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/36386#post-207921

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