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Managing obsolete pages with one line of code

When I switched from Blogger to Wordpress I had to deal with the problem of how to deal with the old pages.

Blogger style of archiving was static. That means that for every post you created, the Blogger system created a static HTML page.

Wordpress on the other side creates pages dynamically, meaning that there is no .html file whatsoever, the page is created on the fly whenever you request it. A change in the database automatically reflects on the page.

Now, the problem is, the address of the new pages doesn’t match the address of the old ones.

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