As this post is already fairly long in length, I did not go into every detail. Such as, I omit how to set your permalinks to match TypePad and how to make an MySQL query. I hope this post helps someone out there.
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Thanks for the tutorial — it was a lifesaver! However, I found an error in your new importer script: On line 59, you call the old importer script to handle steps 1 and 2, so the Typepad names don’t get imported properly. All that needs to be done is to change “import-mt.php” to “import-mt-with-name.php” and it works like a charm. It might also be helpful to point out to folks that they need to change the path name on line 237 to one that matches their own Typepad paths.

As for the question about the custom export script, what I did was create a new index template under Design/Edit Current. I called the new template “Export” and gave it the file name export.html. Then I republished the index files and went to /blogname/export.html, which brought up my posts all ready to export. I think perhaps only Pro-level users can do this, so anyone who wants to do this and isn’t already a Pro user will have to upgrade their subscription just prior to cancelling. A couple of issues I ran into along the way:

1. The first line of your custom export template reads . I can’t explain why, but the lastn specification produced an empty export.html file for me. The only way around it seemed to be to delete the lastn parameter so the first line read simply .

2. After doing part 1 above, my export.html file displayed as it should, However, it only displayed the last 10 entries of my blog. In order to get around this, I had to go to Configure/Preferences and change the number of posts to display on the front page to 100 (really it just needs to be a number equal to or larger than the number of posts in your blog — I had 95 posts to export). Republish the indexes and all should work properly.

Thanks again for the great tutorial!

Alan

On your second question - its been a while since I did the whole template thing, and I don’t have a TP account anymore, but I think you can create a new template that’s a part of your default template set. IIRC, you can have lots of individual templates that are a part of the main template set. Just create a new one that exports to a file with a new name that doesn’t conflict with other files. Sorry… its been a while.

Adam

Second, I’d love a little help with the Typepad export stuff. I’m comfortable making custom templates, so no worries there. I’m just not sure how you export them without making the template be the default template. What’d you do exactly?