edeh10k
Member
Posted 10 months ago #
I am migrating my blog from Movable Type to WordPress. I have not been able to get my redirects working properly using this plugin. Here is the structure I have, and am moving to:
Individual Posts
Old MT: /archives/20110711-this_is_a_post.php
New WP: /20110711/this-is-a-post
Category Posts
Old MT: /archives/cat_this_is_a_category.php
New WP: /category/this-is-a-catgory
I've read the docs and still can't get this to work, so I thought I would solicit help here. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/
tinpotgamer
Member
Posted 10 months ago #
Do you have access to editing the pages on Movable?
Why don't you just move all your stuff over, then edit your index.html and 404 pages to have an auto-forward script such as the below?
<html>
<head></head>
<title>Sitename.com</title>
<body><script language="javascript">
window.location="newsiteurl";
</script>Redirect not supported in your browser? Click <a href=newsiteurl>here</a> to continue.</body>
</html>
edeh10k
Member
Posted 10 months ago #
Thanks for the suggestion, but the whole purpose of 301 redirects of individual pages is not to commit Google suicide. The Redirection plugin is designed just for what I am trying to accomplish but based on the documentation I can't get the variables set correctly.
edeh10k
Member
Posted 10 months ago #
So rather than just expecting a handout I am trying to teach myself regular expressions. What I have isn't working, but so far this is what I have. I am hoping someone with a keen eye might be able to quickly point out my mistake:
Individual
MT: /archives/20110711-this_is_a_post.php
/archives/([0-9]*)/([-])(.*).php
WP: /20110711/this-is-a-post
/([0-9])/(.*)
Category
MT: /archives/cat_this_is_a_category.php
/archives/cat_(w+).php
WP: /category/this-is-a-catgory
/category/(w+)
edeh10k
Member
Posted 10 months ago #
Still hoping for help. Corrected a few mistakes but still not sure how to replace underscores with dashes:
Individual
MT: /archives/20110711-this_is_a_post.php
/archives/(d*)-(w+)\.php
WP: /20110711/this-is-a-post
/$1/$2
Category
MT: /archives/cat_this_is_a_category.php
/archives/cat_(w+).php
WP: /category/this-is-a-catgory
/category/$1
