petefinnigan

Thanks very much for your reply and your comments on upgrading to WordPress from greymatter. You have confirmed that a conversion is easy – which i thought was the case but you have also confirmed that my old HTML files will not be used and will be replaced by new php files that use the content now stored in the database. I assumed that if this is the case then the archives URL’s will of course change and this then has implications for my pages in google. This is what i wanted to avoid. In an ideal world google would just pick up the new pages as its bots spider my site. The problem would be the backlinks that would be lost where people have linked to pages of mine as the URL’s would no longer be the same.

I think a solution for me would be to keep the static pages for existing posts made via greymatter and the monthly archive pages and main archive index (maybe these would not matter so much). The main index page would also be a problem if a lot of people have backlinked to the specific index.html page rather than just the directory. If it is possible to keep the existing .htm pages from greymatter and then start WordPress off from the next post that would have been generated if my blog remained in greymatter. Is this possible and how would it be managed from inside WordPress?

Thanks

Pete