Saving your movable type permalinks when moving to Wordpress is as easy today as it was in 2004; just convert the underscores to dashes, make sure your permalink structure matches otherwise, and you’re done!
In testing this out, I have found great reverence for wordpress. If you request a page, and the URL isn’t quite right, it will actually figure it out and deliver the best guess. For example, on my old site, the following was a link:
www.dreich.info/blog/archives/2008/12/highbridge_jume.html
This is automatically redirected to:
www.dreich.info/2008/12/highbridge-jume
…which isn’t actually a page on my new site. Instead, wordpress corrects it to:
www.dreich.info/2008/12/highbridge-jumel-house-city-college-bike-ride/
and you get the right page! (Really: try googling jumel dreich.info and note what google gives as the link, and what it actually is. This will probably go away soon when google recrawls the site.)
In the course of futzing with the mod_rewrite, I found out why none of my rewrites ever work: you can’t have a leading slash on the URI. It isn’t there; your rule will never match anything.
Doug
February 27, 2009
When I saw the facebook mention of your blog, I was expecting poems about feelings. This is much more respectable.