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I can’t believe it is all that easy! I had a blog running on Blogger for a long time. And I knew Wordpress just had a lot of benefits and I once tried installing Wordpress 1.5 and was looking for ways to convert my Blogger account to Wordpress and I found one procedure that shared a script, and had you set your blogger template in a certain way. The import went on fine, but I did not convert yet and still kept using my Blogger account. And since I have been doing SEO, and finding all the customizations I can work on with Wordpress, I told myself, I will make the switch. And I did, but this time, Wordpress 2.0 just came out and had an import function straight from Blogger.

So I just entered my Blogger login and password and that was it. Everything else was all self-explanatory and the transition was simply waiting until everything is transferred. I can’t remember how many months ago this was, but I have had no problem with my hosting clients who wanted to do the same thing.
Now this month, I got a new web hosting client who wanted her blog on Wordpress too and had an existing blog on Typepad. Typepad owned by 6Apart who are the people behind MovableType where the opensource project of it has been discontinued and is offering the updated licensed version for a certain fee. I checked the Wordpress Import function, and under MovableType, it just had an upload box. And I said to myself, what is this? So it looks like I need to login to TypePad and do an export.

I went to my clients Typepad using her login and password she shared so I can set everything up. After doing an export, it brought me to a page that looked like a preformatted plain text page with all post. And again I said to myself, what is this? I simply saved the file and uploaded it in the upload box on Wordress’ import function for MovableType and that was it. It was that simple.

One thing I want to try is importing from TextPattern. And I wonder when the impossible will come out… a Xanga to Wordpress conversion. Xanga is just so different and templates can get so wild that I imagine the import can be done if the Xanga blog is designed in a certain way. Or maybe some XML or RSS way can be done?

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