On August 27, Typepad, my long-time blogging service, announced that they’re shutting down on September 30, 2025.
Like lots of other Typepad bloggers, that announcement of just a window of a bit over a month to save blog content kicked off my search for expert help in migrating a large number of posts and photos from Typepad into WordPress, the premier blogging platform.
I have about 8,400 posts and 10,000 photos on my three blogs, Church of the Churchless, HinesSight, and Salem Political Snark. I’m computer literate but in no way did I consider myself competent to handle this migration.
My first step was to contact seven WordPress developers. Only one responded quickly (five, not at all): Glorywebs, a tech firm based in India with a presence in the United States. When I saw that Glorywebs had expertise in WordPress projects, I contacted them, describing what I needed.
Since, I’ve been highly impressed with Glorywebs.
Their staff have been highly responsive, answering my questions quickly and coordinating a small team that is handling the creation of three new WordPress blogs and migrating my Typepad posts, comments, photos, and other files into those blogs.
I signed a Website Migration Service Agreement with Glorywebs on September 2. In three days, by September 5, they downloaded and inspected my Typepad text and image/asset files, and produced a demo WordPress blog for Salem Political Snark that, so far as I can tell, perfectly migrated my Typepad posts and comments.
I’ve asked for a few minor changes to the BlogHash theme that was one of the ones recommended to me by Glorywebs. After that, my blog will be ready to go live on WordPress, with two blogs left to go.
There really is no downside to the fact that Glorywebs is headquartered in India. Previously I used a book designer in India who fashioned a good looking book out of some of my early Church of the Churchless blog posts. When I uploaded the Break Free of Dogma file to Amazon, everything went smoothly.
The only quirk is that I get emails and Whats App messages at odd times, given the approximate 12 hour time difference between Oregon and India. Of course, I’m sending Glorywebs my own communications at odd times from their point of view. “Odd” isn’t an objective fact.
Glorywebs is charging me a very reasonable fee. I never got any migration cost estimates from WordPress developers in the United States, but it’s a near certainty that Glorywebs is considerably less costly and equally, if not more, competent than tech firms expert in migrating blog content in this country.
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