Migrating to wordpress
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Hi, I have wordpress blog which I was hosting on a server – not wordpress – the postings on it had the URLs
http://blogname.org/index.php/posting-nameI want to migrate my blog into the WordPress site and host it on WordPress.com. It will end up with the URL http://blogname.wordpress.com.
I want to point my domain blogname.org to my new site on wordpress.com (blogname.wordpress.com). I will pay WordPress the $18 or so needed to do this. This will mean that going forward my postings will be fine and will have the URL http://blogname/article/posting-name.
However, will this mean that my former urls when I hosted WordPress on my own site – which for some reason were of the form blogname.org/index.php – still work? When I look at WordPress hosted sites they seem to have URLs of the form blogname.worpress.com/article/posting-name rather than what is on my original site I hosted myself i.e. blogname.org/index.php/posting-name.
Can anyone help me out on whether there is a way to keep the old links working?
The URL of my blog below is not the one I am talking about, it is another one I currently have on wordpress. The URL of the blog I am talking about is outcomesblog.org.
Paul
Blog url: http://outcomestheory.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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This will mean that going forward my postings will be fine and will have the URL http://blogname/article/posting-name.
No. They will have the form http://blogname/date/posting-name
If you pay for the domain mapping all the links will work, even the internal links.
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Thanks Raincoaster. My presumption re the future urls was based on my separate existing wordpress site outcomestheory.wordpress.com. The urls there are /article/, but I now realise that they are ‘articles’ within Annotum theme, rather than blog postings, so that is why I presume they have article and normal blog postings will have the /date/ as you say.
You say that:
‘If you pay for the domain mapping all the links will work, even the internal links. ‘Do you mean that for a posting put up on the earlier site (my installation of WordPress on a server) which had a url outcomesblog.org/index.php/name-of-article, once I have migrated my site to be hosted on the wordpress site, wordpress will take the user through to outcomesblog.org/date/name-of-article. That is what I am wanting to happen. If that can’t happen then I will need to have control of outcomesblog.org to make redirects to all of my previous postings (which in the future will be on the wordpress hosted site) so that their links will not get broken. In that case I presume that I will not be able to map outcomesblog.org domain onto my new wordpress site which will be something like outcomesblog.wordpress because such a mapping would mean I would lose control of the possibility of setting up redirects.
Hope I’m expressing this clearly, any further comment appreciated Raincoaster. Thanks,
Paul
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Yes, the permalinks will auto-redirect to the correct format. (Which still amazes me because I remember when changing one little thing in the permalink structure broke entire websites.)
Anyway, if you purchase the domain mapping, you should be all set with your new link structure.
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Thanks, so you’re saying that once I migrate to the wordpress site itself and map my domain to the new wordpress site, anyone going to an old link which used to work on the old site which was outside of wordpress will get through to the same page they would have done in the past and presumably Google will believe its the same page for the sake of positioning on Google searches.
Thanks for all the help.
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