Perhaps this IS the year when I finally figure out how to migrate my 5 remaining Typepad blogs over to Wordpress… sigh… So they are really just existing for the people like me who just haven’t gotten around to moving our blogs to some other platform. that the Wikipedia article about TypePad notes that Typepad stopped accepting new signups as of 2020. And that the Twitter account only gets occasionally updated about trouble issues.Īnd. Add to that the fact that the “Everything Typepad” site hasn’t been updated with a new post since October 2021. ![]() The complete lack of any information in the Typepad knowledge base about working with external editors does concern me. Figure Out How To Move Away From Typepad! You should now be able to create posts in MarsEdit and publish them on a Typepad blog. (If not, you may need to hit the refresh circle.) Once this is done, you should see the MarsEdit interface load the most recent posts into the editor window. This is where you enter your Typepad username and password. Here’s a screenshot of the preferences screen:Īfter you save those settings, MarsEdit will prompt you to “login” to your blog. Under Connection Settings, you need to use: The auto-configuration will fail, and you will be prompted to manually configure the site. Type in the name and URL of your Typepad blog and press “Continue”. In the main MarsEdit window, press the “+” in the lower left corner of the app to add a new blog. (And that is not the actual value for one of my blogs.) 2. The hex string that I show in bold is the part you need. Once you are logged into Typepad, and are in the settings for one of your blogs, the URL in your browser will be something like: I couldn’t find this in any of the settings, but you can get it from the URL. So for anyone still remaining on Typepad who wants to do this, here is what you need to do. And… there is nothing whatsoever in the Typepad knowledge base about external editors, XML-RPC, “Movable Type”, or anything else. And in a sign of how far the mighty (Typepad) have fallen, a Typepad blog can’t be auto configured by MarsEdit, and isn’t even listed anymore on the MarsEdit manual configuration page. I strongly encourage you to give it a shot.How do you configure MarsEdit to work with the Typepad blogging platform? As I’ve started to try to get back into blogging more, I found that MarsEdit, the tool I’ve been using to write blog posts for 10+ years now, was no longer connecting to Typepad. All you have to do is configure the Writer itself so it can connect to the site (basically, it only needs the address of the site, your username and password). Finally, Windows Live Writer doesn't require you to set up your site in any specific way before you can work with it. The tool itself is very easy to use and very efficient (when it comes to performance). You can download it at and then install it on any version of Windows. The best thing about Windows Live Writer is that, even though it's been created by Microsoft, it's absolutely free. If you're on Mac, you can consider alternatives such as MarsEdit or Qumana The only bad news in this whole story is that the best tool available, Windows Live works on Windows only, so Mac users will have a little harder time here. There's no such problem with external blogging tools, as they are optimized for working with WordPress right from the get-go. ![]() Well, if you've ever tried doing this, you already know that most of your formatting, layout, as well as the graphics are sure to go missing. The first question worth answering here is how are these tools better than writing a post in MS Word and then copying it into WordPress manually. Another benefit is that your posts are stored as normal files, which you can copy wherever you want, send to someone via e-mail, or back up on Dropbox or other similar solutions. This has some great benefits, and the biggest of which is that you can write posts whenever inspiration hits you, not only when you have an Internet connection at your disposal (particularly handy for creating content while traveling). The main difference between them and working with WordPress directly is that they make it possible to create content (posts) offline, and then export it directly to your WordPress site. In short, external blogging tools are specialized pieces of software that allow you to work with your blog from the desktop of your computer.
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