Hi, I hoped that EE 2.0 would be released by now, but since it isn’t I’m getting a little impatient to start my project… So I’m probably just going to go ahead and start things of with the current version.

My question is though, since I will have content created which will be indexed in the search engines, can I migrate from the old to the new system without losing the URL structure of the site? And also in general, how easy/involved will the migration from 1 to 2.0 be?

jeanpaul1979 - 29 November 2008 03:03 AM

Hi, I hoped that EE 2.0 would be released by now, but since it isn’t I’m getting a little impatient to start my project… So I’m probably just going to go ahead and start things of with the current version.

This is what we always recommend.

My question is though, since I will have content created which will be indexed in the search engines, can I migrate from the old to the new system without losing the URL structure of the site?

Yes. ExpressionEngine’s template engine is not changing in 2.0 so the URL structure can remain the same.

And also in general, how easy/involved will the migration from 1 to 2.0 be?

Our goal is to make it as seamless as possible. The only known issue at this point will that 3rd party add-ons will need to be updated for 2.0 as add-ons written for 1.x will not work with 2.x by default. There will be a Developer Preview of 2.0 so that third party developers have the opportunity to update their add-ons before 2.0s public release.

Ok, thanks for letting me know, sounds good.

I’m looking forward to work with a CMS that has CodeIgniter at it’s core