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Preparing to move WP Expression Engine
We are finally getting around to moving our Out of Control™ website to ExpressionEngine. WordPress for us just has too many security updates, and the recent massive change to the control panel just isn't too our liking. We also find that after much tweaking and optimizing, one of our larger sites FindMacStuff is still just really slow in WP. So we will start with moving this site to EE and then we will write new extensions for FMS and move it to EE.
As much as I would like to have this move done quickly, I have all sorts of projects coming up that will help pay the bills, so the move might take some time.
In the meanwhile, here is a little .htaccess line I use on EE all the time, but never seem to remember the exact phrasing. Basically this lets EE rewrite the pages so that the index.php is not shown.
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RewriteEngine On
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
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RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
I have been doing that also with our blog http://www.cactuslanguagetraining.com/blog/ and found a nice script to export to MT format and then importing that to EE. But WP now has versions and comments in the same thing so had to clear them out with the script first. I did not have so much fun with comments though.