Another evil of keeping postids in the permalinks

Okay, it looks like all of my built up links on technorati are toast.

When you export WordPress to XML and import it to the new page, it does not keep the post IDs, therefore my old permalinks which include %post_id% are invalid even with the Permalink Migration plugin. Google, Yahoo and most search engines should have no trouble updating thanks to sitemaps but Technorati won’t pick up on this.

It’s a pity but all is not lost. I can still tweak some pages in the database, once I shuffle around some category ID numbers.

Update: I had some issues when I was changing the ID numbers. The page just wouldn’t show up. It turns out that a 301 redirect in a .htaccess file was a lot easier.