Comments on: Why I switched from Typepad to Wordpress (Warning: Long!)

By: Cord Blomquist

Cord Blomquist — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:07:47 +0000

Krista,

I thought you and your readers would be interested in tp2wp.com, a service my company just launched that solves this problema bit differently.

Rather than make do with the bad export file provided by TypePad, we convert the TypePad export file into a WordPress WXR import file. During the process we do things like strip-out the javascript pop-ups that TypePad uses for images, we give every file attachment a full URL for later importing, and we remove as much of the extraneous formatting that TyepPad inserts into post text as possible.

We’ve also customized the WordPress importer for use with these files so that the importer will detect the file type of any file with an extension–this is really common on TypePad. Our importer detects the file type and then appends the correct extension to the file after importing it. Without this modification to the importer, a lot of images–nearly all of them on most typepad sites–would be lost.

I hope you consider checking out the service if you ever need to move away from TypePad or Movable Type again. You can read more at http://tp2wp.com/

By: Anders

Anders — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:16:28 +0000

I’ve also tried to convert to another site, with one of my blogs. It was not that easy! 🙁

By: kaszeta

kaszeta — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:50:34 +0000

As another person that has recently done a blog conversion myself (in my case, blogger to wordpress, as well as a shift to self-hosting), I share many of your frustrations. It’s not an easy process, and converting my modest 200 post travel blog to end up with something that met my needs.

For those having concerns (London Chow and Ute), the end results are well worth the pain of conversion, I’m much, much, happier with the new blog, and it also has a lot more functionality (offbeateats.org for the end product)

One big recommendation for those going to Wordpress: spend some time researching themes. Starting with a good theme that meets your overall technical requirements and has basically the style you are looking for can really get you going quickly.

By: Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy

Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:31:45 +0000

Very interesting 🙂 I’m also interested in the migration process – hopefully you’ll be documenting that (and whether you had WP consultants or did it alone).

Welcome to WP!

By: Ute@hungryinLondon

Ute@hungryinLondon — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:13:24 +0000

very interesting post, I am on wordpress but, even though I spent nights going through all the tutorials, the forums and online helps, have the feeling I still have no idea what I am doing… However, I really like that basically for whatever you want to do there is a plug in (if you manage to use it is another question all together…)

By: London Chow

London Chow — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:11:28 +0000

Thanks for the post, Krista. I’m currently on blogger but seriously considering transferring to Wordpress. But am a bit put off by the technical aspect of it. Just can’t find the time to do it properly.

Would look forward to your post on migrating to WP. Cheers!

By: Sylee

Sylee — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 09:01:38 +0000

So very helpful! Thank you for laying out your thinking in such detail.

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