Planning A Migration From Wordpress To Movable Type
However, there's no reason why I can't take the time to sit down and plan the migration.
There are several things that I need to take into consideration before "throwing the switch":
- Layout - this may not be a big issue for some blogs, but there are a few things in the sidebar and header on a couple of the sites that I would prefer not to lose
- URLs - keeping them the same would be ideal, but working out a sane mapping to do some mod_rewrite magic with would be an acceptable compromise
- Content migration - apart from the actual posts what other content is there to move? Are there images and other media to consider?
- Functionality - what do I *really* need
- External services - Google Analytics code - it may only take a line of code, but losing stats would be annoying. Some of the sites are using Feedburner to handle the RSS, so this also has to be taken into consideration
- Plugins - some of that is covered above, but I'll be looking into this in more detail below
On my main blog I am using a number of plugins actively, while others aren't really in use and others haven't been active for a very long time.
Let's examine these more closely
- Akismet - there's an MT version, so that's a non-issue
- Bad Behavior - not really needed and there are plenty of other replacements
- Brian's Latest Comments - widget should fix that
- Digg this - Byrne's Promote this! can handle that
- DoFollow - not required, as MT does that internally
- Feedburner - there is an equivalent somewhere. In any case it's simply a matter of tweaking the templates and using a simple mod_rewrite - not exactly complicated
- Google Analytics - either plugin or simply adding the code to the template. Non-issue
- Google Sitemaps - there are several plugins that do this
- Landing Sites - also handled via some plugin magic
- Link Harvest - not sure yet, but I'm not using it much anyway
- SEO Title Tag - MT's builtin template system can deal with all this easily
- Sociable - already covered
- Subscribe to comments - I'm looking into this one
- Text Link Ads - they provide one
- Wordpress mobile - not sure how to deal with this one just yet, but I'm sure there's a sane solution out there
- wp-cache - since this is MT why would I need to worry about caching Wordpress???
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Based on your URLs, you should be able to simply do something along the lines of
RewriteRule (.*)/(.*)/.*/(.*)/ /$1/$2/$3.html [R=permanent]
That'll do a permanent redirect on existing pages, so as long as you retain the page names (which should be easy, if you're careful) you should have no problems.
Similarly, you'll need to correctly redirect categories and comment feeds.
Rob
Which URLs are you basing that on?
Michele
On your main blog's post permalink URLs.
Fair enough so :)