I think I have the redirect thing figured out, though I’m not going to touch it again until I have all the image files and their new permalinks moved here which should take another day or two. Remember, there are over 5000 entries on Spinning since October of 2003, and now that I’m going through them quickly, I’m glad I saved them and didn’t start a new identity. I wrote so much more honestly then.
On the permalink issue, WordPress configuration made the switch on the post permalinks but not the images or the external links. So the images I’m taking care of manually. The redirect from Typepad to WordPress, however, needs to be done on the Typepad site so that once it’s gone, the links will come out as a 301 redirect rather than a blank page. I have some code and a Movable Type template made up already for the redirect but just have to figure out where to stick it and I don’t want to mess with anything until I’ve gotten all the images and links transferred over completely.
Also learned something else here; while I do want to eventually move the published by, etc /comments/ line from under the post title to below the post, I really need to put in an extra blank line at the end of each post here to separate them out more clearly. Like this: (which didn’t work so maybe I’ll add a <br> in the html version)
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology