ported site, need help with mod rewrite

[thebwit]

Ok I recently ported my site from my own cms to wordpress just for ease of managing things. Now I need to figure out how to set up redirects on the old site urls to the new ones.

Is there an easy way to link old urls to their new wordpress ones for SEO purposes? If not, how do I set up the mod_rewrite so that a url like:
mmarecap.com/old_site/news/headline_is_underlined-941/ goes to
mmarecap.com/?s=headline+is+underlined

Thanks for the help

[lucy24]

Is there an easy way to link old urls to their new wordpress ones for SEO purposes?

Yes, probably, but you're not asking someone here to write it for you, are you?

Start by reading through the last page or so of threads in this forum. And the Forums Charter. It's one of those teeny links near the top of the page.

Can't be more than 24 hours since I stumbled across* another reason for not going overboard with detailed answers. Can't remember what the question was, or who answered it ... but there was no follow-up, and the asker is still sitting there (this was a years-old thread) with one post to their credit. Sets off a kind of icky line of thought.


* nagvaaqtara, as usual