Domain Mapping: more than one feed?

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    fjhaydn · Member ·

    I have a GoDaddy page. I have been writing a blog on TypePad for 5 years now, and want to switch to Word Press without losing the 5 years worth of previous blog essays on TP. Can I map the domain here for all future essays while keeping the mapping to TP for all older ones? Of course, if I could simply import all my old blog files from TP without having to virtually rewrite them all, that would be ideal… Thoughts?

    Mike

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    gemmacevans · Member ·

    Hi Mike,

    and want to switch to Word Press without losing the 5 years worth of previous blog essays on TP

    There are two types of WordPress — WordPress.com and WordPress.org:

    WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

    Just to make sure I’ve understood, do you want to add new posts to a WordPress.org site hosted by GoDaddy? Or are you looking to create a new site on WordPress.com instead?

    Just let me know and we can go from there.

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    fjhaydn · Member ·

    Hi Gemma,
    OK, well I own the domain name (fjhaydn.com) on GoDaddy and have been porting to it from TypePad for the last 5 years. I want to continue the same blog, but write it on WordPress instead. I need the old posts to still be available though.

    Migrating the existing posts from TypePad to WordPress is a gigantic PITA, so I would like to know if it is possible to port both blog sites to the same domain. That way I don’t lose my permalinks which are all over the internet now. I can then slowly migrate the old posts over here until they are all here, then shut down the TP blog.

    I hope that explains it, I’m a music historian, not necessarily an internet expert… ;-)

    Thanks, Mike

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    I would like to know if it is possible to port both blog sites to the same domain.

    That is not possible, no. A domain can only be connected to one site at a time.

    But moving your existing posts over might be easier than you think. We have a Typepad importer on WordPress.com, and if you would rather set up a self-hosted installation of WordPress at GoDaddy there’s a Typepad import plugin that will move over all your existing content.

    If you do that, the WordPress software will try to redirect all your old Typepad links to the correct new WordPress post links, but that can only happen if the posts are properly imported.

    You can find Typepad’s instructions to get an export file here:

    https://help.typepad.com/typepad_to_wordpress.html

    And our importer instructions are here:

    Import a Website

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    fjhaydn · Member ·

    Thanks for the information, Kokkieh. The simple answer, even though I don’t like it, is the best.

    For the time that it takes me to get at least the last 6 months worth of posts imported and running (pictures, tables etc.), I will have to essentially shut down the webpage, since I can’t proceed with creating a blog here on WP without porting the feed here (currently empty) to GoDaddy. I can’t do any design work preparatory to ribbon-cutting either. I would submit that the lack of an apparent solution/workaround for this is really what is holding me back. I have 225 essays and ~15 data pages, all of which will take some time. Also, the main reason to come here is to take advantage of better creativity tools, which I have to explore and learn first. It’s daunting, and I don’t want to lose my approx. 40 viewers a day while shut down. I like to present the appearance of continuity!

    So I am assuming there is no workaround: is that a fair assumption?

    Thanks again,
    Mike

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    For the time that it takes me to get at least the last 6 months worth of posts imported and running (pictures, tables etc.), I will have to essentially shut down the webpage

    Not really.

    To start with, an import typically shouldn’t take more than a few hours.

    And the moment you create a new WordPress.com site on our end, we create a free address at a subdomain on “wordpress.com”, or one of a selection of .blog domains that’s yours to use forever.

    Your site will already be fully functional at that domain, and you can start adding new content and tweaking the design immediately, without moving your current domain to us and even while the import from Typepad is still running.

    If you want to install plugins you will need a custom domain connected here, but in that case we can help you out with a temporary solution – either using a subdomain on the domain you already own, or a temporary domain we can provide you with.

    Let me know if you have any more questions about this.

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