Merde

Over the last two days I moved Existential Media from Movable Type to WordPress MU. Here is the process I followed to achieve this.

1. Create new blog in Wordpress.
2. Create the new author in Wordpress.
3. Export posts from Movable Type blog.
4. Import posts into WordPress blog.
5. Move Movable Type blog files to WordPress blog files directory.
6. Have Movable Type generate a .htaccess file to redirect old posts to new posts.
   Redirect 301 /merde/ http://existentialmedia.net/merde/
Redirect 301 /merde/<$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m"$>/<$MTEntryTitle dirify="1" trim_to="30"$>/ http://existentialmedia.net/merde/<$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m"$>/<$MTEntryTitle encode_url="1"$>/
7. Run sql find and replace to update links to files like images, mp3s, etc.
   update wp_2_posts set post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://existentialmedia.org/merde/', 'http://existentialmedia.net/merde/files/merde/')