Broken links everywhere since the move

It occurred to me that there are now broken links everywhere since I have moved my blog from WordPress.com to my own server. So why is this problem popping now, a while after the move?

Well it’s because I’ve recently flicked the kill switch on my old blog. All the files, photos and links that pointed to my blog at its old location will no longer work (since I’ve killed them off) so it’s become broken.

So it’ll be a while until I manually go and fix up those broken links one by one, unless someone has a better idea of how to rewrite the links automatically?

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categories Admin | | datetime 8 Oct 2009 13:58

  • http://www.ltyer.com John Jiang

    Export your blog, use regex to do a find/replace and import again :P

  • http://www.edmundtse.com/ Edmund Tse

    That’s actually not a bad idea…
    It should be just:
    s/edmundtse.files.wordpress.com/www.edmundtse.com\/wp-content\/uploads/
    But looking through, there seems to be some files that haven’t been downloaded from the old blog. I’ll look into this a bit later.
    I might give you suggestion a shot and see how well it works.

  • http://www.chriswebster.com.au Chris Webster

    If you’re on a unix-based server, .htaccess 301 redirects?

  • http://www.edmundtse.com/ Edmund Tse

    Hah I wish I could do 301 redirects. It’s hosted wordpress.com, which means I have no control whatsoever. (I guess except for if I pay them more money)

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