Might as well get this off my chest, since I need to contrive a test post for my WP 2.3 upgrade. I am disappointed by the Typepad migration. During the years I used Typepad, I was pretty casual about my use of their photo album features. I had FlickR to share photos and used Typepad to blog. So most of the photos I included with posts were dumped into a directory called photos/uncategorized. Some of the best bloggers do this. Now I seem to be faced with the challenge of copying each of those images individually back out and uploading them here and editing the posts they came from to point to the new image locations. While the Typepad export created a nice text file that Word Press was able to handle to recreate each of the posts here, there is no provision for migrating images so each of the image links still points back to Typepad. Since this is all being done to avoid paying another year of Typepad fees, I rather resent the way that Six Apart has left me hanging here.
Technorati Tags: Six Apart, Typepad, bloggers roach motel, the posts go in but they don’t come out, uncategorized photos, live trap
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Frank Paynter 10.05.07 at 8:09
Testing the Filosofo Comment Preview feachuh… (seems to be working on this post, but the Upgrade Preflight Check plugin issued a warning about possible incompatibility)
Frank Paynter 10.06.07 at 1:49
testing preview using new stylesheet
alan herrell - the head lemur 10.06.07 at 7:02
The photo albums is what got me on typepad as well as the multi blog ‘feature’, which of course wasn’t. a photo album on one shows on all of them, I went round and round about basic directory structures but they have their head so far each other asses, that the best they can do is widgits, like everybody on the planet needs more useless indecipherable smoke signal shit.
Lacking an images directory really sucks when moving to anyother blogging tool.
I hope this is the pre Halloween stylesheet…:)
Frank Paynter 10.06.07 at 8:12
This style sheet has taught me a lot about what I don’t want in a three column layout. I’m moving towards a change and who knows when I’ll arrive?
