How to move my site without duplicating the content

I have a site which is based on a custom cms. I want to move it to wordpress. I am going to have to move all the articles manually.

The problem is that the structure is going to change.

At the moment it is: site.com/topicX/aritlce.php ; site.com/topicY/article.php

On wordpress it is going to be site.com/2011/article/

So I can't redirect the pages.

How can I do this?

 

What kind of CMS your site.If it is a forum read the article below.You might find it useful.
How to Migrate a phpBB Forum to WordPress and bbPress

Cheers,

 

Nah, it's just a custom one.

 

I used Wordpress plugin called "Redirection"(you can find it on wordpress site) it took a while to set up redirection for each page, but it is faster than creating .htaccess file that does redirects

The only thing you need to do with this plugin is to place the old url and show which one going to be the new URL and that's about it

I can't think of any easier solution for moving custom made site

Hope think this helps

 

There are more Permalink structure options in wordpress.One with the "category/postname" should work.
Can you share your site's URL with us.