Converting WordPress links to XenForo?

[Lucas]

I'm interested in redirecting old WordPress URL's to point to our forum threads (posted as news), any ideas on how I can learn to do such a thing or a little hand on doing it if it's simple?

Help is greatly appreciated!

 

[Jake Bunce]

Are these specific redirects? There is no direct WP importer so I assume you are redirecting individual URLs. You can use a .htaccess rule like this to redirect a specific URL:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/path/to/wp/article/$ /forum/threads/1/

You can duplicate this line to specify other individual redirects.

 

[Andy.N]

This is something I'm curious as well. The thought of moving WP to XenCarta has entered my mind at some point in the past so I just want to see how other people approach this.

 

[Lucas]

Basically "/2012/02/beta-key-signup-survey-live/" should go to /threads/beta-key-signup-survey-live.XXX/

 

[Jake Bunce]

Basically "/2012/02/beta-key-signup-survey-live/" should go to /threads/beta-key-signup-survey-live.XXX/

That rule will work then. Use this:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/2012/02/beta-key-signup-survey-live/$ /threads/beta-key-signup-survey-live.XXX/

If this is going in XenForo's .htaccess file then it should go at the very top.

 

[Lucas]

Well, I'm looking for a solution that dynamically updates all links, since there are several articles, not just one. Hope that clears it up a bit. Is this done with rewrite engine instead of Redirect?

 

[Jake Bunce]

I just remembered I did your WP import.

Well, I'm looking for a solution that dynamically updates all links, since there are several articles, not just one. Hope that clears it up a bit. Is this done with rewrite engine instead of Redirect?

For generic redirects you need an id map. In the case of a double import like yours there is no direct id map, though it may be possible to setup the map with some extra effort, similar to this:

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...-to-xenforo-with-redirects.29979/#post-344747

 

[Lucas]

Yeah unfortunately it imported everything in the HTML and would of had to edit every single news item for it to work in our news so I manually imported each news (I know, I'm crazy).