(Here I go again...)
I'm finishing to setup my site and hacking htaccess file to redirect the long dynamic search URLs. But I stopped progression because search parameters for categories.
I'm using the recommended Pagination for Static Pages (http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/designer/pagination-static.html) technique for Main Index Page and Category Archive Listing Page. For the Main Page, things went smoothly:
Default URL: www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=XXX&template_id=YYY&archive_type=Index&page=ZZZ
Pretty URL: www.mysite.com/archive/pageZZZ
But with the Category Archive, I stopped here:
Default URL: www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=XXX&template_id=YYY&archive_type=Category&category=ZZZ&page=AAA
Pretty URL: www.mysite.com/category-ZZZ/pageAAA
The problem here is all XXX YYY ZZZ and AAA are numbers. Categories can be named on MT. Why mt-search.cgi can't accept names instead of numbers? I'm not saying search for a Category named like this "Some Whack a lot Named Hyper Category Made to ME!" but for its folder, which MT created and encoded for web use. Like this:
Default URL: www.mysite.com/(...)&category=proper-named-folder&(...)
Pretty URL: www.mysite.com/proper-named-folder
Does anyone know if there's a plugin that modifies the search behavior to accept this query?
Reported on Movable Type 5

Some people really doesn't read all the documentation: http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/author/changing-your-urls-mapping-old-urls-to-new-ones.html
I think this will work. At least for me. :P
I would strongly recommend you to use PagedArchives for paginating index pages such as: main index and entry listing archives (category archives, data-based archives etc.).
The plugin is available at:
http://www.aldenbates.com/plugins/pagedarchives.html
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
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