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Re:How We Moved 34k Wired Pages to One Site by kyle6884 on Friday October 30, 2015 @04:53PM (#10480481)
Might be a good idea to put a canonical tag on the old to the new content.

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/1.02/crypto.rebels_pr... > http://www.wired.com/1993/02/crypto-rebels/

Re:How We Moved 34k Wired Pages to One Site by primus202 on Friday October 30, 2015 @05:48PM (#10480739)
Thanks for the catch! We're still fine tuning our redirects from archive to the new article locations. We no longer have print pages so we'll need to redirect those to the new posts. At least the actual post (i.e. http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/1.02/crypto.rebels.ht...) is redirecting correctly at the moment.

Also you can see at the bottom of the actual article on WIRED.com we did add tags to archived magazine content, like the article you mentioned, to group content together a bit. Thanks!

Re:How We Moved 34k Wired Pages to One Site by tvanantwerp on Friday October 30, 2015 @08:22PM (#10481307)
I'm about to transition an old Drupal site with 10+ years of content to WordPress with new URL patterns. I'm curious, how have you approached the doubtlessly massive number of redirects at Wired?
Re:How We Moved 34k Wired Pages to One Site by mschuster91 on Friday October 30, 2015 @09:22PM (#10481446)
Once you have a list (which you already have if you've automigrated it) just generate a list of rewrite rules with header set to "Moved Permanently".

But I'm curious, usually platform changes go from Wordpress to Drupal because people need features other than a blog and simple CMS system. What made you go the opposite route?

Re:How We Moved 34k Wired Pages to One Site by debaserab2 on Saturday October 31, 2015 @12:34AM (#10481824)
Because Drupal is a horrible, horrible system with a flawed architecture that promises a lot and never fails to under-deliver.

(Sorry, I worked at an agency that sold a lot of oversold drupal6 projects)

Re:How We Moved 34k Wired Pages to One Site by mschuster91 on Saturday October 31, 2015 @07:10AM (#10482358)
I recently completed a pretty huge D7 app. The biggest challenge was not the code, but pressuring our customer representative to not over-sell...
Re:How We Moved 34k Wired Pages to One Site by cedricr on Friday October 30, 2015 @07:10PM (#10481104)
http://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ is missing the first few paragraphs from http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive//3.06/xanadu_pr.html

That being said, great work!

Re:How We Moved 34k Wired Pages to One Site by jffry on Friday October 30, 2015 @06:08PM (#10480820)
Aside: What's with all the blank newlines at the top of the source of that first link? (http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/1.02/crypto.rebels_pr...)