Month: November 2012

  • WordPress redirects

    Moving from movabletype to wordpress has involved several post moving to new locations. The redirection plugin has made adding redirects easy but only once I figured out the correct regular expressions to use. Here’s what I’ve had to use. 1) Old MT pages had .html on the permalink Source: /(d*)/(d*)/(.*).html Target: /$1/$2/$3/ 2) A much…

  • Results are in, WordPress gets as much spam as movabletype

    That didn’t take long.  Last night I pointed the domain name to the new WordPress server. This morning I had 50 spam comments held for moderation.  I was impressed the spammers had noticed the blog change so quickly, then I thought the robots probably change their behaviour depending on the comment page. Clever those spammers.…

  • Technical notes on migrating from MovableType to WordPress

    Having just migrated from MovableType to WordPress here are my notes just in case they help anyone else. Time it’s taken from empty wordpress to viewing complete posts: about 6 hours Time it would take to do now knowing exactly how to solve problems: about 1 hour Time you need to allow…. decide for yourself…