Holy Cow! It worked! My posts and images inside the posts transferred beautiful, as did the Archives. The categories didn't transfer (but maybe they could have if I changed the template), but still it looks great and now may be an option for Blogger users to move over to Typepad without fear of losing everything they've worked so hard to create.
NOTE: The Blogger blog stays the same. Do NOT delete the old blog even if you move to Typepad, this way you can make sure the images will not be deleted and your posts moved here to Typepad will stay untouched, unaffected as well. This shouldn't be a problem for Blogger is free.
So…..take a look!
Here is my real Blogger Blog:
Here is the Blogger Blog modified as per Typepad's export instructions:
Here is the new Typepad blog I tested:
Here are the instructions you must follow in order to make it work!
MAKE a COPY of your blog to transfer.
- Login and go to Settings.
- Click on Export Blog.
- Save file to your computer.
- Then go back to the Dashboard and Create a New Blog
- Give it the same name with a -transfer added to it for example.
- Then go to Setting and Import Blog. Import the backup file you just created.
- USE THIS NEW blog as the one to transfer since you have to change the formatting.
Continue with the directions below
Be sure to follow this important step:
If you are using Blogger Beta, you need to first change your template to use this import code. In your Blogger account, go to the Template tab and click on the Edit HTML link. At the bottom of the page, click the "Revert to Classic Template" link. Then, paste in the code from above into the Edit Template field.
Only after you revert to classic template, will you be able to modify the template as they tell you to.
I still have to test the reverse (about moving from Typepad to Blogger).
This is great news I think, so I had to share it!
Whooo hooooo!!!!!!
Heather why would you want to switch just curious?
I just switched from Typepad to Blogger and it was a pain. But worth it for me because blogger had everything I need, for free (particularly HTML control & post scheduling). I had to do every post by hand and am still uploading all my images. I tried some of the conversion utilities out there but couldn’t them to work for me (and I’m very savvy) so in the end I just did it one post at a time and it really wasnt’ that bad. Until blogger allows import of formats other than blogger, it’s probably going to be a pain.
In answer to Virginia above: Heather has been helping me switch from Blogger to Typepad because one day Blogger removed ALL, yes ALL, my images from my Blogger blog. No reason, just gone. So I didn’t want to risk that happening again, and they have no support at all, so am working with Heather to migrate to Typepad! She has been just wonderful and I am slowly….. learning!
I just have to agree with you that it truly did worked perfectly! I did tried it myself as well and it really did worked well! Thanks for sharing your extra ideas and a well pseudo code explanation regarding that!
your post on moving from blogger to Type pad is awesome. I am also using blogger site. After reading this post thinking of switching to Type pad. Thanks for sharing such an informative post.
I’m considering this switch. I have a domain name attached to blogger right now. Do kneed to remove that? Is there anything I need to do in type pad prior to the switch? Will my customers still have access while I make the switch? Thanks for your help Heather.
Aimee, I’m sor sorry I missed your comment and just replying to a recent one. But You could use
http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/
to go from Typepad or WordPress to Blogger.
Glad you got it working! 😀
Happy blogging!
Hi Sherry!
You should post on your blog that you will be moving.
Yes, you can move the domain from Blogger to TypePad or other desired platform. You can remap it using this tutorial:
https://www.blogsbyheather.com/2011/06/blogs-by-heather-weekly-qa.html
Your can move your feed and not lose prescribers (email subscribers) using this tutorial:
https://www.blogsbyheather.com/2010/11/feedburner-changing-your-blogs-feed.html
However Google Reader subscribers may or may not have to resubscribe, so again that’s why you should post about the change right before the official “move”.
Keep me posted 😀
Hi Heather,
Your article is god sent after hours of research on the topic.
My dilemma is, I love typepad and have moved my blog from blogger BUT I used a custom domain and I’m so used to using the blogger interface for email etc that I’m not sure if I am ready to migrate all that.
Is it possible to have my domain pointing to the typepad blog but continuing to use google back end for email etc… (I know it sounds a little crazy but who knows)