[wp-pro] Paid MT -> WordPress conversion

[Les Jones]

I'm trying to move from MT to WP, but I have a major stumbling block.
My URLs look like this:

www.example.com/posts/001234.shtml

The 1234 is the postid. To preserve my URLs I need to be able to move
the post IDs from MT to WP. Note that you can't simply import the
posts to WP and assume the IDs are the same - they won't be because of
deleted posts. I'm not worried about the leading zeroes. I can fix
that with Apche's mod_rewrite.

I'd like to avoid having to use redirects. I have over 4000 posts,
lots of internal links, and lots of inbound links that boost my Google
PageRank and bring search engine traffic.

Any ideas? I'd pay someone to help me with this.