I just upgraded from a Geo Metro to a H2(without all the environmental effects) when I moved from bblog to wordpress, my only issue now is that i dont want to lose any links, this I need http://blog.defunctgames.com/?postid=245 to go to http://blog.defunctgames.com/?p=245
I found that I cant just use a simple mod_rewrite, as it is a variable to the index.php page, and not an actual page its self.
I went digging through the pages only to find that I cant seem to figure out where the $_GET['p'] variable is accepted, and used... because i need to also make $_GET['postid'] to become the same variable.
Who says you can't use rewrite ?
This link is a good source of information for what you actually CAN do with rewrites.
Specifically for your needs, check out the section called "Backward Compatibility for YYYY to XXXX migration"
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html
hmm, I have neverworked with mod_rewrite like that, what would i have to do to make it work... cuz technically the old page was index.php?postid=245 and the new page is index.php?p=245
so the file name is the same, the variable is different
shouldnt this code work??
RewriteRule /index.php?postid=(.*)$ /archives/$1
im using the WP mod_rewrite feature for permalinks so...
http://blog.defunctgames.com/?postid=245 would now be
http://blog.defunctgames.com/archives/245
Why not enable "Pretty Permalinks" in Options/Permalinks? They look much cleaner.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pretty_Permalinks
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