I KNEW I should’ve gone the extra mile
Last year I spent a fair amount of energy importing my old posts from other blogs into here. It totalled a little over 3000 posts spanning 6 years.
I still see incoming references to old uccu urls. It wouldn’t have been SUCH a nightmare to accomidate that.
The way to do it would’ve been:
- Tag the old posts with the old post id and ‘uccu’
- Add a rewrite rule to the magic whatchamacallit file that would redirect all the /uccu/*html links to a cgi.
- Add a cgi that redirects to a WordPress searche for the post number from the intended url and ‘uccu’.
- Tada!
But I didn’t tag the uccu posts. After seeing what happened when I tagged the old radio userland posts (massive proliferation of tags and an OldRadioBlog tag) I thought differently.
Well that was wrong.
Now I’ve got people who are getting cached google results coming in to this site and landing on the homepage, which is almost certainly the last thing they want.
Yeah. Looks like it’s time to do some site work.
Tags: Blog, Programming, WordPress