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?
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:
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.
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?
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:
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).