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Blog Ported from TypePad to WordPress

March 10, 2008 · Print This Article

If you hadn’t noticed, I ported the blog from TypePad to WordPress over the weekend. I’ve been a WordPress user for a long time, but have been avoiding making this move. It’s not that I had so much content that it would be unbearable, just that I didn’t feel like the hassle. But it was time for a change.

I was expecting quite a few more hiccups during the migration, but it went rather smoothly all-in-all. There were some incompatibilities that had to be cleaned up, and the inevitable theme tweaking, but I’d much prefer to tweak with full control than hack without it! The biggest headaches were rereferencing the images and redirecting the old URL’s.

I’ll write up the experience step-by-step as soon as I verify that everything is working as expected. If you have any problems, or notice and irregularities, broken links, missing images, etc., please post a comment here.

Some things that I expect will need a little more TLC:

  • Page formatting, e.g. line breaks where there shouldn’t be, sizing issues. (due to some hacks I used at Typepad)
  • CSS formatting inconsistencies (hacks again)
  • A few broken internal links; I think I caught all of the external links, but it’ll take a manual review to make sure I haven’t missed any of the internal ones
  • A few hours to one day feed problems. Right now, FeedBurner doesn’t recognize the domain, so until the DNS changes propogate fully, the feed will appear to be down.

Old and new screen captures:

shot-old-joefission-small.gif shot-new-joefission-small.gif

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2 Responses to “Blog Ported from TypePad to WordPress”

  1. Chet Akers on March 12th, 2008 7:31 pm

    Are you concerned about Page Rank or do you know some way to forward that rank to your new urls?

    Thanks.

    CJ

  2. joefission on March 13th, 2008 2:38 pm

    No, I can’t say that I’m too concerned with PR. This is a personal blog, and I do zero promotion, so the PR is all from content anyway. Even though the url’s changed, the underlying domain is the same and I’m 301 redirecting the old to the new, so most of the PR should follow the url’s. If it doesn’t, it’s probably temporary, and will be gained back in short order.

    So I guess the short answers are “no” and “301.” :-)

    Shaun

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