Changing CMS - Wordpress to IP.Content

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  1. gallitin

    gallitin Regular Member

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    With my current setup I have a main page at the root of the domain that is a Wordpress site (domain.com). My forum is located at http://domain.com/forums. My main page gets neglected from updates because it is not tied to my forum for easy updating.

    I recently used IP.Content on another site of mine and love it. This would be a great solution for the above site.

    Now my question is, what's the best way to make the move? I really hate to get rid of my thousands of indexed pages, content, PR, backlinks from my main site to start fresh with IP.Content. How can I salvage my old content and going forward use IP.Conent? Do you put the old site on a subdomain then somehow tell google only the old stuff has moved, but going forward check my root domain?

    I have no clue how to do this so any suggestions would be appreciated :)
     
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    I'm not very well versed in IPB but I'm guessing you could just use htaccess redirects to 301 (permanently moved) the old URLs to the new URLs.

    If IPB has a permalink structure setting just set it up to mirror WP's settings and import the content.

    The subdomain idea could work. Simply 301 the old rewritten folders to the subdomain however that leaves old content on the subdomain new content on the main domain and 2 CMS's to continually manage which is a time sink.

    I'd try my best to import everything to IP.Content and redirect the old URLs.
     
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    I'm not sure there is a way to import data from wordpress to IP.Content or basically IP.Board.
     
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    And I'm really not needing to import the data from Wordpress to IP.Content, I mean it would be nice, but I would be content with putting the old site on a subdomain like old.domain.com, you said there is a way to redirect the old links to the new subdomain to keep from messing up backlinks, serps ect...?
     
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    Yes, what you're looking to do is what's called a 301 redirect. This tells spiders (and browsers) that a page has moved permanently. What does you're permalink structure look like in Wordpress right now?

    Keep in mind, IP.Content likely has it's own rewrite rules so you'll have to work around them.

    I'll say it once more then shut up about it :) - You're best bet going forward would be to import from WP to IP (even if you're manually copy/pasting little by little). Before you know it you'll forget all about old.site.com and won't upgrade Wordpress and wind up getting exploited. Trust me, I've seen it happen. Plus you'll have centralized content management. At the very least make sure IP content and WP are in different databases with different database users/passwords.
     
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    My current permalink structure: /%postname%/

    I would like to import but I just don't see an easy way to do it, the only way I can think is to do what you said, create new thread post links/content/images/ect... over and over :)
     
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    Roughly how many posts are there? You're going to have to create a rewrite rule forever post with that structure.
     
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    I thought I had seen a wordpress converter

    It looks like you can import these.
    • Articles
    • Categories
    • Comments
    • Pages
    The problem with using a URL with no ID in it comes to the issue the OP is asking about.
    If you have blog.com/?p=1 it would be easier to redirect all old users with just a few rules.
    Since you have your post name in the URL, you'll likely need to make a new rule for each old post.
    If you have 100 post it's not that bad once you get the working format, but if you have 1,000 post it's going to take a couple hours.
    I'd still suggests importing your data and going this route. You don't really want to lose the content if you can help it, and setting up the rewrite rules will insure any old links or indexed pages will always work.

    Also I've moved this to the IPB forums, we could use all the active threads we can in that section and this seems to be centered around ip.content.
     
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    About 10k worth.

    WOW, thanks! Going to look at this now, probably just what I need!
     
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    Ah well since I have 10k it may take a few days?? :)

    I don't want to lose the content as 50% of it comes up on Google for many different keywords and I hate to take that penalty. So when you say I have to make a rule for the URL rewrites. I have to manually do for every URL?
     
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    There may be a site someone has made that will auto-generate your rules.
    I would do everything possible not to lose those pages and links.
     
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    Ok, thanks everyone. Off to dev now and see if I can generate the desired results. I'll let you know once I have finished.
     
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