An Upgrade to TypePad's Compose Screen. When Chris Alden, our CEO, asked for feedback last January about the improvements you wanted to see, many of you sent in fantastic suggestions for how we could improve TypePad's Compose page.
We listened to your suggestions, added functionality from your top requests, and we're excited to announce the new Compose tools are ready for release. Please note that the new screen will reach groups of TypePad users in phases over the coming weeks. Some of you will see these changes today and everyone will see them by mid-June. Permalink Issues When Moving from Typepad to WordPress. So, you have finally decided to take the plunge and move from Typepad, a hosted service, to WordPress’ self-hosted solution, but you don’t want to lose your permalinks that everyone has linked to?
See, when you export from Typepad it doesn’t keep your post slugs intact, so WordPress generates some of its own, based on the title of the post. This means the URL you had before is no longer correct. Firstly, Typepad added a .html on all of your post related links. WordPress doesn’t do this by default. To change this, all you need to do is go to the Options -> Permalinks section, and select date and name based. From here, change the ending to:/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%.html.
Painless Switch from TypePad to WordPress - Adam Stiles. Stuck in Blogger? Move to WordPress the Easy Way. A recent client had her blog, thefatandskinnyonfashion.com, well-developed in Blogger, including thousands of categories and tags.
She was even using a custom domain name (see how you can setup a custom domain name for your blogspot or blogger blog). She asked us to move her very active blog from Blogger to WordPress for a number of reasons including improved SEO and ease of posting and we are glad that she called on BlogWranglers.com to migrate to WordPress. Before; the blog on blogger. After; the blog after we moved to WordPress from blogger.
Moving the Text is Easy. As you can see in the Move Counter statistics in the top right of our website, we move a lot of blog posts and comments in a year so we knew we could help her. Unfortunately, there are several hard parts that the export tools don’t handle well. When you upload an image through Blogger, it gets stored on Picasa Web Albums, and is therefore subject to the quota limit on your account there. [not a real link] MovableType2Blogger conversion utility. Blog-converters-appengine - Project Hosting on Google Code. This project contains a number of converters to and from different Blog services.
The code is written in Python with scripts to execute the conversions either on the command-line, through a Windows batch script, or hosted on Google App Engine. If you were directed here from a .appspot.com hosted service, please see the README file for information on how to run the various converters. This project is open source and distributed under the Apache license. Please feel free to add to or modify this source and propose changes or new converters.
If you are experiencing any problems with the converters or the hosted service, please add to the issue list or ask a question on the discussion group. For the list of supported conversions, see the ProductConversionsMatrix. Typepad to WordPress. How to Move from Blogger to WordPress in Just 6 Steps [Ultimate Guide] EmailShare 0EmailShare Setting up a blog at Blogger.com looks much easier and convenient to new bloggers at beginning. The biggest reason for that is it’s FREE and extremely easy to learn and blog. I too started with blogger and had no idea about self-hosted wordpress blogs at that time.I thought blogger.com would be well enough to handle all of my blogging needs. However as my site grew up I realized I need more more control over it, more of that “professional touch” to attract more and more visitors and readers. And Blogger.com is simply not up to the challenge of running a professional blog. Why?
Read : 11 Reasons Why a Self-hosted WordPress Blog is Better than a Blogger Blog But the biggest risk or you can say the giant question mark was there. And as I promised, I’m here with the guide that will make the Blogger to WordPress migration look so easy that I’m sure you’ll be convinced after reading this. How to Switch from Blogger to WordPress Without Losing Google PageRank or Search Traffic. 19 Important Features to Look for in a Web Host. Moving from Typepad to Wordpress: 2009 Guide.
We recently rescued a complex and older weblog Uncoy.com from Typepad and moved it to WordPress with absolutely zero broken links or posts.
Why do we write rescue? First of all Typepad is a truly awful platform for anything but the most basic weblog. images look terrible CSS is difficult to alter stats are a joke tech support is a close tie for the worst on the web Secondly, it wasn't easy. SixApart make it really difficult in fact. Broken permalinks missing comments disappearing images Making the move work involved: The detailed steps are below - the list above is just the executive highlights.
Was it worth it: The day my weblog was finally out of the hands of Typepad and safely into WordPress was one of the happiest days of my online life.