If you’ve ever moved from one house to another, you know that it’s not just moving day that is a mess in your new house, it drags on for a while until you get things sorted out. Lots of little details escape attention for days, weeks even. But eventually you track down every last one and after about a month or two, you are 100% in order.
Now you’re probably thinking what the hell does that have to do with the title of this entry?!? Well, just like moving houses, migrating data from one system to the next is similar. And moving from BLOG:CMS to WordPress has not been entirely trivial, so I still spot the odd bug even though it’s been a couple of weeks. One thing I neglected to consider when migrating the blog was missing post slugs. You see, WordPress uses post slugs as a way to label urls more human-friendly. Instead of {blog_url}?p=34 to open post number 34, it allows you to use urls in the form {blog_url}/index.php/year/month/day/blog-entry-title (the part after the last slash is what WordPress calls a post slug) This is nice for people who link to a blog entry, because the latter url makes a lot more sense to a human than the former (which is just a number of a column in a database).
