Well, I read the different options that were posted on how to migrate the links, and I didn’t like any of them. I wasn’t really a fan of leaving my MoveableType installation on the server for X duration. So, I wrote my own solution that is easily applied to the WordPress installation in the form of a custom 404 page. The page is fairly simple. All it does is the following:
- Tries to figure out what the title of the post is, or should be
- Formats the title according to what WordPress wants it to be
- Checks the database to see if a post by that name exists
- If it does, it sends you there with a proper 301 redirect
- If it doesn’t, it displays the standard error page