<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Les,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>It is possible to import the post ID's from MT to WP intact.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I have done a number of conversions from MT to WP and would be glad to talk with you on the phone about the issue. From there we can decide if I am the one who can help you, etc. I am in my office all day today, would you like to set up a time to talk?<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">best, K</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Komra Moriko</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.design4results.com">http://www.design4results.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Monaco; min-height: 16px; font-family: Monaco; "><br style="font-family: Monaco; "></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cell: 617.584.2760 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">eFax: 866.398.9875</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Nov 10, 2007, at 1:38 PM, Les Jones wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I'm trying to move from MT to WP, but I have a major stumbling block.<br>My URLs look like this:<br><br><a href="http://www.example.com/posts/001234.shtml">www.example.com/posts/001234.shtml</a><br><br>The 1234 is the postid. To preserve my URLs I need to be able to move<br>the post IDs from MT to WP. Note that you can't simply import the<br>posts to WP and assume the IDs are the same - they won't be because of<br>deleted posts. I'm not worried about the leading zeroes. I can fix<br>that with Apche's mod_rewrite.<br><br>I'd like to avoid having to use redirects. I have over 4000 posts,<br>lots of internal links, and lots of inbound links that boost my Google<br>PageRank and bring search engine traffic.<br><br>Any ideas? I'd pay someone to help me with this.<br>_______________________________________________<br>wp-pro mailing list<br>wp-pro@lists.automattic.com<br>http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-pro<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>