Chapter 13. Importing, Exporting, and Archiving
In This Chapter
Importing an existing blog to TypePad
Backing up your TypePad blog
Just about every blogger contemplates migrating his or her blog at some point. It's not uncommon for bloggers to start a blog on one platform and then, after they're comfortable with the nuances of blogging, decide that a different platform better suits their needs. It may be that they would like to have more control over their blog and template code, or would like to have advertisements on their blog and their current platform doesn't allow those. This chapter walks you through the steps of importing content from an existing blog to your TypePad blog and shows you how to export and archive your TypePad blog.
Tip
We encourage you to refer to Chapter 4 and our discussion about setting up an intuitive filing system. Taking the time to set up a filing system that makes sense to you helps you find files as easily and quickly as possible.
Understanding TypePad's Import and Export Options
Importing or exporting a blog simply means you're moving existing blog content from one blogging platform (exporting) to another blogging platform (importing). When you export blog content, you create a file that contains all of your blog's post content and comments. You use that file to import the content to your new blog platform.
Note
Note that neither your blog's template code nor your actual images are included in this export file. The export file you create is a stripped version ...
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