Comments on: Finally Completed The Move To WordPress From Blogware

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:26:36 +0000

just adding notify by email !

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:26:00 +0000

If you’re still monitoring this page – did you ever publish your notes on transferring from Blogware to WordPress?

I’m Just starting the process and looking for guidance…

malcolm AT moris DOT hk

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:26:00 +0000

If you’re still monitoring this page – did you ever publish your notes on transferring from Blogware to WordPress?

I’m Just starting the process and looking for guidance…

malcolm AT moris DOT hk

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:26:00 +0000

just adding notify by email !

By: Everton Blair

Everton Blair — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:40:43 +0000

Ahh, that’s why you’re having problems. I didn’t use the export generated by the admin console to extract my old permalinks. I got them by extracting the source code on the ‘Post Manager’ pages and extracting the permalinks by messing around in Word/Excel with Find & replaces.

I did it this long-winded way becuase it was the weekend and I couldn’t wait until Monday – an easier way would be to send an email to Blogware asking for a dump of your permalinks and IDs.

By: Everton Blair

Everton Blair — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:40:00 +0000

I did it this long-winded way becuase it was the weekend and I couldn’t wait until Monday – an easier way would be to send an email to Blogware asking for a dump of your permalinks and IDs.

By: Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:20:07 +0000

No, I didn’t get the articles extracted. I still have the original export file, tho… and I’m not sure I have the same structure now as you do…

By: Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:20:00 +0000

No, I didn’t get the articles extracted. I still have the original export file, tho… and I’m not sure I have the same structure now as you do…

By: Everton Blair

Everton Blair — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:06:59 +0000

Hmmm. Did you manage to extract and match your old article permalinks if you did then write rules like:

RewriteRule ^blog/_archives/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/1307475.html$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/$1/$2/$3/570 [R=301,L]

which redirects http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/10/18/1307475.html http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2005/10/18/570. If you check this you’ll even see that the search engines are starting to correct themselves because of the 301′s

If you haven’t managed to extract your article permalinks you can still post these lines at the top of your .htaccess to get some benefit (just cut&paste):

# BEGIN WordPress

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Redirect Old Archive urls number 4 rewrites blog/archives/YYYY/DD/MM/Anything to date/YYYY/DD/MM
RewriteRule ^blog/_archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/date/$1/$2/$3 [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Archive urls number 3 rewrites blog/archives/YYYY/DD/MM to date/YYYY/DD/MM
RewriteRule ^blog/_archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/date/$1/$2/$3 [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Archive urls number 2 rewrites blog/archives/YYYY/MM to date/YYYY/MM
RewriteRule ^blog/_archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/date/$1/$2 [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Archive urls number 0 rewrites blog/archives/YYYY/DD/MM to date/YYYY
RewriteRule ^blog/_archives/([0-9]{4})?$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/date/$1/ [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Keyword Permalinks
RewriteRule ^blog/cmd=search_keyword/k=(.*)$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/index.php?s=$1&submit= [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Searches
RewriteRule ^blog\?cmd=search&keywords=(.*)$ http:www.connectedinternet.co.uk/index.php?s=$1&submit= [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Category Permalinks number 5
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/category/$1 [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Category Permalinks number 4
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/category/$1 [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Category Permalinks number 3
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/category/$1 [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Category Permalinks number 2
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)/(.*)$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/category/$1 [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Category Permalinks number 1
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/category/$1 [R=301,L]

By: Everton Blair

Everton Blair — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:06:00 +0000

Hmmm. Did you manage to extract and match your old article permalinks if you did then write rules like:

RewriteRule ^blog/_archives/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/1307475.html$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/$1/$2/$3/570 [R=301,L]

If you haven’t managed to extract your article permalinks you can still post these lines at the top of your .htaccess to get some benefit (just cut&paste;):

# BEGIN WordPress

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Redirect Old Archive urls number 4 rewrites blog/archives/YYYY/DD/MM/Anything to date/YYYY/DD/MM
RewriteRule ^blog/_archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/date/$1/$2/$3 [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Archive urls number 3 rewrites blog/archives/YYYY/DD/MM to date/YYYY/DD/MM
RewriteRule ^blog/_archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/date/$1/$2/$3 [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Archive urls number 2 rewrites blog/archives/YYYY/MM to date/YYYY/MM
RewriteRule ^blog/_archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/date/$1/$2 [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Archive urls number 0 rewrites blog/archives/YYYY/DD/MM to date/YYYY
RewriteRule ^blog/_archives/([0-9]{4})?$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/date/$1/ [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Keyword Permalinks
RewriteRule ^blog/cmd=search_keyword/k=(.*)$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/index.php?s=$1&submit;= [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Searches
RewriteRule ^blog?cmd=search&keywords;=(.*)$ http:www.connectedinternet.co.uk/index.php?s=$1&submit;= [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Category Permalinks number 5
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/category/$1 [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Category Permalinks number 4
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/category/$1 [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Category Permalinks number 3
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/category/$1 [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Category Permalinks number 2
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)/(.*)$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/category/$1 [R=301,L]

# Redirect Old Category Permalinks number 1
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)$ http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/category/$1 [R=301,L]

By: Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:49:50 +0000

Been trying to update my own .htaccess code to work more like yours, but… no go. I’ll just have to live with it.

By: Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:49:00 +0000

Been trying to update my own .htaccess code to work more like yours, but… no go. I’ll just have to live with it.