One of the biggest problems I had with transitioning to the new MT setup is that I've moved to the new MT 4.0 URL format, which substitutes dashes ("-") for underscores ("_") in the web address of posts.
The optimal solution: a perl script that rewrites the URLs intelligently. This was a much better solution than alternates I saw around the web, some of which included writing a huge .htaccess file full of rewrite commands, one for each old post.
There's still a ways to go; obviously I haven't figured out what to do with the old photolog, I'd still like to get my recent flickr photos showing in the sidebar, and for the love of God, I'd like to get my old image files downloaded from the last hosting provider.
The optimal solution: a perl script that rewrites the URLs intelligently. This was a much better solution than alternates I saw around the web, some of which included writing a huge .htaccess file full of rewrite commands, one for each old post.
There's still a ways to go; obviously I haven't figured out what to do with the old photolog, I'd still like to get my recent flickr photos showing in the sidebar, and for the love of God, I'd like to get my old image files downloaded from the last hosting provider.
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