Comments on: converting links from MT to WordPress http://dan.hersam.com/2004/10/05/converting-links-from-mt-to-wordpress/ A computer programmer's commentary on news, Linux, programming, music, web design, trivia, humor, usability and whatever else strikes his fancy at the time. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:01:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: dan http://dan.hersam.com/2004/10/05/converting-links-from-mt-to-wordpress/#comment-6381 dan Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:28:03 +0000 /?p=1041#comment-6381 Richard: The .htaccess file is usually placed at the root of your site. You may already have one there, and it doesn't matter where you place the code in the file as long as the forward rules don't conflict with one another. The Category Archive template is a template type in Movable Type, so I'm guessing it's the same within Typepad. It should be in the templates area. Best of luck to you. Richard: The .htaccess file is usually placed at the root of your site. You may already have one there, and it doesn’t matter where you place the code in the file as long as the forward rules don’t conflict with one another.

The Category Archive template is a template type in Movable Type, so I’m guessing it’s the same within Typepad. It should be in the templates area.

Best of luck to you.

]]> By: Richard Silverstein http://dan.hersam.com/2004/10/05/converting-links-from-mt-to-wordpress/#comment-6377 Richard Silverstein Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:51:50 +0000 /?p=1041#comment-6377 Dan: I came to you via the codex & hope you might have a few mins. to help me with my own Typepad to WP conversion. Carthik Sharma helped me with a lot of the intial stuff I needed to do to set up my WP blog by importing files, etc. He also spent a lot of time dealing with the link conversion issue & thought he had it licked. But either he didn't or he did & something happened subsequent to that that made it stop working. Because my old TP post links are dead. Right now, they will take you to my new site but provide an error msg. saying the post was not found (that's because it's not converting the underscore to underline & ditching the .html suffix. And Carthik seems to be busy & hasn't been able to help me w. this problem so I think I'm going to have to do it myself. I believe that Typepad would work similarly to MT & prob. use precisely the same code as you use above to get there. I can follow good directions involving installing code, but I'm not really a programmer. SO any help you can provide to me I'd appreciate. The codex directs you to add this code to the .ht access file: Redirect Permanent /archives/<$MTEntryID$>.html http://www.example.com/index.php?s=<$MTEntryTitle encode_url="1"$> First, where would I find this file? Is it within my wp folders/files? Does it matter where you place the code within the file? Above, you mention the Category Archive template. Where would I find that? If you think of anything else I should know in doing this pls. fire away... Dan: I came to you via the codex & hope you might have a few mins. to help me with my own Typepad to WP conversion. Carthik Sharma helped me with a lot of the intial stuff I needed to do to set up my WP blog by importing files, etc. He also spent a lot of time dealing with the link conversion issue & thought he had it licked. But either he didn’t or he did & something happened subsequent to that that made it stop working. Because my old TP post links are dead. Right now, they will take you to my new site but provide an error msg. saying the post was not found (that’s because it’s not converting the underscore to underline & ditching the .html suffix. And Carthik seems to be busy & hasn’t been able to help me w. this problem so I think I’m going to have to do it myself.

I believe that Typepad would work similarly to MT & prob. use precisely the same code as you use above to get there.

I can follow good directions involving installing code, but I’m not really a programmer. SO any help you can provide to me I’d appreciate.

The codex directs you to add this code to the .ht access file:

Redirect Permanent /archives/< $MTEntryID$>.html
http://www.example.com/index.php?s=< $MTEntryTitle encode_url="1"$>

First, where would I find this file? Is it within my wp folders/files? Does it matter where you place the code within the file?

Above, you mention the Category Archive template. Where would I find that?

If you think of anything else I should know in doing this pls. fire away…

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