Playing with WordPress

After using WordPress for another site for a while, I moved my website to WordPress as well. Maybe I’m going to blog more often if I don’t have to locally generate and then upload my posts every time ;)

At the same time, I decided to finally get rid of the old /archives/yyyy-mm-ddThh-mm-ss.html permalink structure. Of course, permalinks are … sort of … not meant to be changed. I didn’t want to pollute my .htaccess file any further by using individual redirects, and using mod_rewrite was not possible, since the new permalink URLs contain more information than the old URLs did. I ended up writing a shellscript to create an HTML file with a redirect for each of the old archive pages and put those files into the /archives directory.

The only thing that remains to be done is importing the comments from HaloScan. Oh … and apologies to everyone who just had a year’s worth of blog entries pop up in their news reader :cool:

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