In this old post I wrote that in the last 4 years there have been no blog posts about WordPress vs Typepad, or the change from TP to WP. If you do a search on Google about it now, you will see how many are actually changing while giving an explanations about their reasons for the change, and how they managed to do it.

You could read on the FortyFirst about the change of TP to WP for their SavvyMarketers blog, and this is but one of the many.

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Looks like there is  an increasing need for some website owners to change TypePad for WordPress lately, and on Foliovision is a very useful guide on how to do just that.

In the above article Alec Kinnear is writing about the rescue of his older Uncoy.com blog. Alec is an independant writer and photographer next to his web design and marketing business Foliovision.

In the Moving from Typepad to WordPress: 2009 Guide he is adamant about how awful Typepad is as a blog platform for anything but the most basic weblog needs. The reasons for his move to WP were: that images look terrible on TypePad blogs, and the CSS is difficult to alter, plus stats are unreliable, as well as the tech support is one of for the worst on the web.

I am not agreeing or disagreeing with his arguments, but suffice it to say, that should you go to read his above mentioned Guide, you could read in the comments how many were grateful to him for the provided info and help.

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This post that I found on Tikun Olam…: Make The World a Better Place was also written in 2005, and I think that what was said than is still valuable today. WP still has it’s community, and many plugin’s are still being developed and available for everyone. The growing commerce in blogs and blog networks has increased so much in the last 4 years that many of the developed plugins are not free anylonger, but obviously, most bloggers spend only on plugin’s that will increase their earnings.

Talking about the ease of use while having a blog’s network with WP is so well explained in these posts of Barry Bell. And a more recent post, from 2008, on the Warrior Forum is about the difference about WP being free and opensource against the options and possibilities with Typepad while a paid platform. And Seth Godin and his use of Typepad was mentioned there too.

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