I’ve been excited about finally getting down to making this move from Typepad to WordPress but when I started the project back in March of ’08, I was too-skeered by some of the instructions to go beyond setting up the weblogs and putting a theme and a post on each. Once I got involved again with the move this week and actually exported the entries, set up some new plug-ins, transferred some of the categories and links, I realize it’s not as easy to move close to 6000 posts (5300 on spinning, 550 on Hypercompendia) intact.
I haven’t deleted the Typepad blogs yet, and I won’t until I’ve gotten all the problems sorted out. The two left are the redirections of the permalinks and I’ve been working on that problem for a couple days because there are a lot of different ways to do it, but none are the same and time and updates make a lot of the old suggestions I’ve found obsolete.
The other problem hit me like a ton of bricks. All the images, 5 years of images, have to be uploaded somehow to WordPress or once I pull the plug on Typepad, they will disappear. Oh yeah, they show up here now, but they’re linked to the Typepad files.
Nothing is easy. Unless I feel like finding and uploading all the photos, and redirecting the links, I can leave the old posts blank.
I’m beginning to think that maybe I should’ve just stuck with Typepad, or be willing to lose the last five years of my life and start out fresh.
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