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Once I have my basic Wordpress setup, I decided to import my articles from Typepad. I don’t know how many months I have left, but I will soon cancel the account anyways.

The importing process is pretty straight forward. Below are basically the steps:

1. Export my articles from Typepad. To do this, I log into Typepad, and go to Weblogs > Leaderware > Manage > Import/Export, and click on Export Post… link
2. The export file looks different from my expectation (I was thinking of an RSS feed)… I saved the file on my hard drive
3. Import the article via Wordpress > Dashboard > Import > Movable Type and Typepad, and upload the saved file
4. All the posts are now available for view

(I probably could have chosen Import via RSS, but my eyeballs skipped over that particular entry! ;P)

Once imported though, the next step is “hellish” - changing the formattings and the links!

Typepad has a strong control over the formatting of the posts, which are somewhat removed through their export process, but when I import the article, I still have to go through and fix the missing <p>’s and broken <div>’s.

And I have to relink all the internal links within the articles, because they retain Typepad link structures, which are changed once inside WP.

Finally it is all done - lucky that I did not publish frequently on Typepad, otherwise it would definitely take a while Below are the converted articles.

• Ready, Fire, Aim
• Heroics
• Precision Hiring
• Hire the Right Analysts
• The Mismatched Analysts
• The One Ring
• Rock-Solid Requirements
• Software People Matters
• The First Message
• Join My Technology Alias