Comments on: War Story: Switching from Movable Type to WordPress MU http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2007/08/war_story_switching_from_movable_type_to_wordpress_mu.html Redfin Developers\' Blog Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:49:52 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Anton Visser http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2007/08/war_story_switching_from_movable_type_to_wordpress_mu.html/comment-page-1#comment-7362 Anton Visser Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:22:43 +0000 http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2007/08/war_story_switching_from_movable_type_to_wordpress_mu.html#comment-7362 Is there any change you can share that RewriteRule rules that you created. Is there any change you can share that RewriteRule rules that you created.

]]> By: Stephen Gelman http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2007/08/war_story_switching_from_movable_type_to_wordpress_mu.html/comment-page-1#comment-5460 Stephen Gelman Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:06:40 +0000 http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2007/08/war_story_switching_from_movable_type_to_wordpress_mu.html#comment-5460 Alex, I am attempting to do what you did with apache ProxyPass. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much out there about how that is done. Is there any chance you could email me the apache config necessary to do so? Thanks in advance! Alex,

I am attempting to do what you did with apache ProxyPass. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be much out there about how that is done. Is there any chance you could email me the apache config necessary to do so?

Thanks in advance!

]]> By: Alex Loddengaard http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2007/08/war_story_switching_from_movable_type_to_wordpress_mu.html/comment-page-1#comment-4254 Alex Loddengaard Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:33:48 +0000 http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2007/08/war_story_switching_from_movable_type_to_wordpress_mu.html#comment-4254 Hi Scott, Most of those 60 hours was spent dealing with the WordPress bug that didn't correlate authors correctly (I had to write a series of Perl scripts and also manually change a bunch of posts). I would say that if that bug is fixed in the most recent version of WordPress, then the most tricky piece of the whole process is dealing with legacy URLs or setting up a proxy (if you need to for your desired URL structure). If I had to estimate, I would say that everything could be done in 20 hours given no WordPress bugs and a good prior understanding of Apache. Let me know what you think, Scott! Hope this helps. Alex Hi Scott,

Most of those 60 hours was spent dealing with the WordPress bug that didn’t correlate authors correctly (I had to write a series of Perl scripts and also manually change a bunch of posts). I would say that if that bug is fixed in the most recent version of WordPress, then the most tricky piece of the whole process is dealing with legacy URLs or setting up a proxy (if you need to for your desired URL structure). If I had to estimate, I would say that everything could be done in 20 hours given no WordPress bugs and a good prior understanding of Apache.

Let me know what you think, Scott! Hope this helps.

Alex

]]> By: Scott Paley http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2007/08/war_story_switching_from_movable_type_to_wordpress_mu.html/comment-page-1#comment-4253 Scott Paley Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:31:27 +0000 http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2007/08/war_story_switching_from_movable_type_to_wordpress_mu.html#comment-4253 Hi Alex, Thank you for this post. We are about to embark on a similar project and this is very helpful! As a matter of guidance, can you let us know what "a decent chunk of those 60 hours" actually means? Basically, if you were going to take this project on right now armed with this blog post, what amount of time would expect this would take? Thanks! Hi Alex,

Thank you for this post. We are about to embark on a similar project and this is very helpful!

As a matter of guidance, can you let us know what “a decent chunk of those 60 hours” actually means? Basically, if you were going to take this project on right now armed with this blog post, what amount of time would expect this would take?

Thanks!

]]> By: Alex Loddengaard http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2007/08/war_story_switching_from_movable_type_to_wordpress_mu.html/comment-page-1#comment-4 Alex Loddengaard Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:52:58 +0000 http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2007/08/war_story_switching_from_movable_type_to_wordpress_mu.html#comment-4 Had the author importing mechanism not been broken in our installation of WordPress, the migration would have been far less time consuming. I should also mention that a decent chunk of those 60 hours was spent figuring out the steps that needed to happen in order to migrate. Had the author importing mechanism not been broken in our installation of WordPress, the migration would have been far less time consuming. I should also mention that a decent chunk of those 60 hours was spent figuring out the steps that needed to happen in order to migrate.

]]> By: Eric Heller http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2007/08/war_story_switching_from_movable_type_to_wordpress_mu.html/comment-page-1#comment-3 Eric Heller Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:54:51 +0000 http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2007/08/war_story_switching_from_movable_type_to_wordpress_mu.html#comment-3 Thanks Alex! This is awesome! We hate being on MT but really didn't want to think about what was involved in the transition. Hearing that you spent ~60 hours is a bit daunting, but at least I feel like I'm following down a path that someone has already marked. Thanks again! Thanks Alex! This is awesome! We hate being on MT but really didn’t want to think about what was involved in the transition. Hearing that you spent ~60 hours is a bit daunting, but at least I feel like I’m following down a path that someone has already marked.

Thanks again!

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