Title: help porting over to WordPress
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# help porting over to WordPress

 *  [mydimension](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mydimension/)
 * (@mydimension)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-porting-over-to-wordpress/)
 * I’ve been reading up on WordPress for the past few hours, playing with a test
   installation, and generally getting to know how it works in hopes of converting
   over to this new system. Currently I run my own home grown CMS system which is
   incomplete, cumbersome and will most likely never be finished has I have no time
   anymore. All in all I find WordPress to be an ideal system but I have one snag,
   my current permalink structure won’t work with WordPress. I created my blog with
   three primary content “directories” using mod_rewrite: i.e.:
    `/archives/2004/
   02/01/` – for browsing through archives `/catagories/catagory_name/` – for browsing
   catagories `/article/article_name/` – for viewing individual articles Each of
   these directory trees is handled by a seperate script: archives.php, catagories.
   php, article.php respectivley. You can see this in action my browsing around 
   my site: [http://my-dimension.com](http://my-dimension.com) Essentially what 
   I am trying to do is come up with a way to keep my old link structure compatible
   with whatever I end up doing with WordPress. Any suggestions would be extremely
   appreciated. I’m open to just about anything. Thanks in advance. William (mydimension)

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 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-porting-over-to-wordpress/#post-33350)
 * William,
    Welcome to the WP community! I came across your site a while back while
   looking for a blockquote source script, and I liked how you did yours. You were
   kind enough to send me the script, which was much appreciated. I’m sure that 
   the coders will help you out soon. I’m just here because I’m pretty. Damn pretty,
   in fact. Everybody has their role to play, right? 😉 Good luck with your site,
   and… have fun! Craig.
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-porting-over-to-wordpress/#post-33357)
 * William,
    I think the best way to do this would be to modify your software to
   send a redirect to the new permalinks. Set up WP permalinks with the recommended
   settings, then in for example article.php when you grab the information for a
   post instead of displaying it redirect it using the date and a modified version
   of the title. You can grab the sanitize_title function from wp-includes/functions.
   php to help you out.
 *  Thread Starter [mydimension](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mydimension/)
 * (@mydimension)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-porting-over-to-wordpress/#post-33444)
 * allusion: thanx for the input
    i had thought about doing this shortly after posting
   this. about the only hurdle i see right now with this option is dealing with 
   redirecting my category links. I use shorter names for use in the url and longer
   names for display (i.e. `/catgories/online/` is the URL for the “Online Happenings”
   category). one possible solution is mapping the old (shorter) names to their 
   new WP version. When all is said and done I’m gonna document this (the changes
   neccesary for my changeover) as best a possible on my blog.
 *  Thread Starter [mydimension](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mydimension/)
 * (@mydimension)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-porting-over-to-wordpress/#post-33630)
 * well, the install is complete. design, previous blog entries, etc. have all been
   ported over _and_the majority of my old URLs still work, specificly those that
   I used as permalinks before. Thanks for the help.

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 * Last activity: [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-porting-over-to-wordpress/#post-33630)
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