Moving your Typepad blog to Wordpress. These instructions will outline how I moved several long-running blogs from Typepad to a self-hosted WordPress account. Typepad makes this very difficult, but the ease of use, remarkable flexibility, and great support community of WordPress makes it all worthwhile. These instructions are from moving to a self-hosted WordPress site, not a free, hosted WordPress.com site. Disclaimer: I’ve tried to be as complete as possible, but these instructions pertain to my specific situation moving from Typepad to WordPress hosted on Dreamhost. If your situation is different, this should still be a time-saver and help guide you. Navigation: Getting readyGet a web hosting accountYour domain (including don’t have one and have one mapped to Typepad)Setting up WordPress (including permalink issues)Exporting your Typepad postsImporting your posts into WordPressObtaining your images from TypepadRe-linking your images in your postsGoing live with your new WordPress siteFurther resources Getting ready.
Downloads/typepad-to-wordpress/movable-type-export-template.txt. Moving from Typepad to WordPress: 2009 Guide | Foliovision. 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. 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. I wish you the same success. Updated Step by Step Guide to moving from Typepad to WordPress Use custom Movable Type export template to export the content of your Typepad blog.
WinHTTrack - Downloading Now it's time to decide how to organize the images directory on your new site. By Alec.