Moving Existential Media from Movable Type to WordPress

Over the last two days I moved Exis­ten­tial Media from Mov­able Type to Word­Press MU. Here is the process I fol­lowed to achieve this.

1. Cre­ate new blog in Wordpress.
2. Cre­ate the new author in Wordpress.
3. Export posts from Mov­able Type blog.
4. Import posts into Word­Press blog.
5. Move Mov­able Type blog files to Word­Press blog files directory.
6. Have Mov­able Type gen­er­ate a .htac­cess file to redi­rect old posts to new posts.
   Redirect 301 /merde/ http://existentialmedia.org/merde/
Redirect 301 /merde/<$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m"$>/<$MTEntryTitle dirify="1" trim_to="30"$>/ http://existentialmedia.org/merde/<$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m"$>/<$MTEntryTitle encode_url="1"$>/
7. Run sql find and replace to update links to files like images, mp3s, etc.
   update wp_2_posts set post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://existentialmedia.org/merde/', 'http://existentialmedia.org/merde/files/merde/')