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Conversion from MT3 to MT4 causes broken links

Mon, 04/14/2008 - 13:51 — wcs131

In MT3, the persistent links to my individual blog posts used underscores to replace spaces:

http:// ... /2008/04/this_is_a_test.html

MT4 uses hyphens:

http:// ... /2008/04/this-is-a-test.html

I don't know if this happened because of something I set previously in MT3 or if it was the default. I couldn't find a way to tell MT4 to use the old (underscore) method so I went to each of those underscore files and set up redirects to the new hyphenated version. Google penalizes for this, so I'm wondering if there's a way to tell MT4 to use the underscores again and then rebuild my site.

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Mon, 04/14/2008 - 15:50 — wcs131

Figured it out

Here's how to set MT4 to the old method of using underscores as the word separator for permalink URLs:

From the dashboard: Design - Templates. Click "Archive Templates" on the right sidebar. Edit the Entry template. Below the text box, there's a dropdown called Archive Mapping. The second one in the list is the one that uses _ instead of -

Wed, 04/16/2008 - 10:23 — Brad Kozlek
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Thanks for finding this

Thanks for finding this and figuring out how to fix it.

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