Migrate from Typepad or
Movable Type to WordPress
By using WordPress’s own XML standard, our data converter and custom importer plugin preserve your data—including images and file attachments.
You don’t have to know how to code or spend hours manually moving data to move your blog to WordPress.
Upload your .txt export file and convert to WordPress .xml now.
How it Works
Our web-based converter and custom WordPress plugins make migrating your blog possible without knowing code.
Export
Create your .txt export file. In Typepad, navigate to Settings, then Import/Export.
In Movable Type, choose Tools, then Export from the System Overview menu.
Convert
Upload your .txt file to tp2wp.com, enter your site’s domain/subdomain, and preview your .xml conversion for free.
Purchase and download for only $49.
Import
Upload your converted data to your self-hosted WordPress blog using the TP2WP Importer plugin. Follow the steps and watch your images & other attachments transfer to WordPress.
TP2WP Moves All of Your Data
Posts
Not only do we move all of your blog posts, we correct dozens of formatting problems common to MTIF file migrations.
Images
To ensure that all images are moved, we rename all image files to include a proper file extension and strip out javascript pop-ups.
Files
Any file associated with your domain or subdomains will be flagged in your converted XML data and imported to WordPress.
Authors
Our custom importer will automatically create new author profiles so you don’t have to create each profile manually.
Permalinks
We don’t use rely on plugins. Instead, we convert your old permalinks to GUIDs, permanently preserving your incoming links and redirecting to your new URL structure.
Comments
We keep your community of readers happy by properly identifying and preserving comments that might otherwise be lost.
Metadata
Keywords and categories in Typepad and Movable Type will be preserved as WordPress tags and categories, respectively.
SEO
No one matches our unique approach to preserving incoming links, which is key to maintaining your hard-won search engine ranking.
Why We Created TP2WP
We’re Pete Snyder and Cord Blomquist, two web developers who had a problem to solve. In 2011 the creators of Marginal Revolution, the popular economics blog, wanted to migrate from Typepad to WordPress.
At the time, we had no idea how difficult it was going to be to get data out of Typepad, especially for a site with 7,000 posts and 140,000 comments. We found out that Typepad exports don’t include permalinks, comments, or images—the export is little more than text.
Complicated 17-step DIY methods existed for using this text export—along with importers, editors, redirects, and other methods—to painstakingly move data to WordPress. We thought we could build something that made this process easier.
We decided to turn the process on its head by converting Typepad export files (and by extension, Movable Type files) into WordPress’s own XML standard.
By converting Typepad data to WordPress XML, we can take advantage of all the great tools that WordPress offers.
That enabled us to a create custom importer that preserve links, images, comments, and the other content that you’ve spent years adding to your blog.
Compared to the old way of moving data between blogging platforms, TP2WP can seem to good to be true. But we believe it’s just the way things should be.
Upload your .txt export file and convert to WordPress .xml now.
Satisfied Customers
Since launching TP2WP, we’ve used this new set of tools to help a lot of bloggers escape Typepad, including Crate & Barrell, Evite, The Monkey Cage, Noodle Pie, YankeesRedSox, SFAppeal, and even Andrew Sullivan’s sprawling 86,000-post site.
We were able to transfer all of the posts and integrate them into the brand new EVITE blog! I would definitely recommend this service.
Ryan MittsA big thanks to Cord Blomquist and his team, who figured out how to migrate our unruly archive of 86,000 posts from Typepad into WordPress.
Andrew SullivanCord Blomquist and his team made the impossible — a conversion of thousands of posts, images, comments and links from a dated web posting site to WordPress — smoother than could be imagined. Miracle workers!
Kit StolzI would recommend the TP2WP valet service for any blogger or company looking to move from Typepad to WordPress.
Ashley JonesWe are glad we made the switch and very glad we chose TP2WP who handled the process impeccably and without downtime.
Alex TabarrokIf any blog authors have similar needs, we highly recommend Cord. Let him know The Monkey Cage sent you.
John Sides