Comments on: Moving from Typepad to Wordpress: 2009 Guide

By: ElShaddai Edwards

ElShaddai Edwards — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:14:08 +0000

My experience was similar to Nick's when I did this last year. I detailed my experience here, but essentially I discovered that the archive permalinks (imported content) would only work if you were logged in. If you were unauthenticated, as most site visitors were, you would get WP’s 404 error. On the dashboard, the post status for all of the imported content read “Last Modified” instead of “Published”, so I too ended up republishing all of the posts and all was well.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:20:48 +0000

Hey,

I did that step, and it was broken then too. I reverted it to a normal WP permalink structure in hopes that it would fix that issue, but it didn’t.

Ultimately I went back and re-published all the posts through WP and that worked for whatever reason.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:17:20 +0000

Hello Nick,

you missed an important step (3.) and that is setting your permalink structure to match your old Typepad blog (typepad post addresses end with .html). The fact that it worked in Chrome was just a coincidence I guess.

Thanks,
M.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:22:04 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial!

I thought it worked flawlessly, but for some reason the old post slugs/links, do not work in FireFox. They work fine in Chrome.

Also, new posts title slugs/links work fine as well.

http://www.nickblevins.com

Any ideas?

By: Melanie

Melanie — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:03:06 +0000

I am experiencing the same problem as Maja using wordpress 2.9.1. The comments are not linked to their posts. All the comments are in the database and display on the comment admin page, but they all say posted in “#”

By: alec

alec — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:52:16 +0000

Hi Maja,

You’ll have to take a closer look at your database. Something must be different. We haven’t had this issue with our own moves.

By: Maja Williams

Maja Williams — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:51:33 +0000

Hello there :)

I have recently moved the aberconwyconservatives.co.uk website from typepad into wordpress and can’t get the comments to show. If jo blogg inserts a new commentsand it is approved, it will be shown, I just can’t see any old comments. I am using the WP 2.9.1. I can see the comments in a post display in admin, but I can’t see them in the listing of all comments in admin (although it does show me the total number of comments). I have checked the DB and the new comments that ARE showing look exactly the same as the old ones. I can edit old comments by going through a post, but they still don’t show. I have installed the plugin specified above, still no show. I simply don’t know what else to do. I am very experienced in WP, but have never met typepad:)

By: izabael dajinn

izabael dajinn — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:25:49 +0000

Thanks for this.

Just a heads up to Amber or anyone else who has problem with the Typepad URLs ending without an extension. To get around this I used a program called ReNamer to remove the .jpg and .gif extensions of all my files and then uploaded to the server. Then you can use Search Regex just fine to replace the first part of the url.

I personally didn’t bother to change to broken permalinks. It was just too much work for my small blog. I’ll just wait for Google to re-index my new site and live with the small loss in traffic.

Oh, and Typepad, f**k you. I waited months to move because I knew it would be a PITA and it was. And like everyone is saying, I already love Wordpress.

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Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:37:24 +0000

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By: Carol

Carol — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:29:48 +0000

How do you handle the subscribers? Looks like they are not automatically redirected. Do you have to notify them of the URL change? Will they have to re-subscribe to the new blog location? We want to avoid them having to re-subscribe if possible.

Thanks soooo much for this article!