You know you are getting up too early when you check your email, and your Google calendar today email hasn't even been sent yet!
I've moved my sisters blog from MovableType to WordPress. Spam was starting to be an serious issue on the old site, and there were quite a few things that were worn out.
I did some jiggry pokery during the import to keep the same post id's in WordPress as were in Movable Type. Then I setup a .htaccess file in to pass through requests from my old pages to the new. The final .htaccess file looks like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.rdf /wordpress/wp-rdf.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^index.xml /wordpress/wp-rss2.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^archives/(0+)([0-9]+) /wordpress/index.php?p=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
I also changed WordPress's permalinks match the old permalinks (mostly). The individual post pages URL's have not changed - incoming hyperlinks still work.
/archives/%post_id%.html
Wordpress is a wonderful system. They've done a great job at keeping things simple (Only 10 tables) and easy to hack at. I'll be moving this site over shortly.
"Hope", a 15" MacBook Pro, replaces my four year old TiBook.
YEAAAAAH!
First programs to be installed were: