TP and Wordpress are blogging services. TP&WP make possible to develop any kind of website, beginning with your dog’s personal site, and finishing with commercial credit card website with 600,000 unique clients per month. Recently, many TP users thought about a transformation to Wordpress. What’s the reason?

Wordpress leaped over TP, that’s it! Both services are suitable, but developers at WP were doing great work in the last few years. Wordpress let the programming of plugins in audience’s hands and you currently may use up to 11 000 addons, which can enhance any part of your website you can imagine – without any expense.

TP comment system was overwhelmed by spammy comments, meanwhile Wordpress conquered the battlefield with Akismet plugin. And there are more, much more examples in favour of Wordpress, like natural submission of multimedia. Yes, TP allows you to customize your website too, but you are required to have (not trivial) skills in CSS and HTML.

The main dilemma is – is it possible transform from TP to Wordpress simply? To tell the truth, SixApart Anil Dash did not let it the easy way. SixApart TP offers no well-working export function, which would help you. Fans are able to use TP’s unmanageable export, which will leave you with changed permalinks and which needs difficult manual labor to transform your images. Admins are able to use Atom exporter, but that will transform only a limited set of your blogposts and no commentaries at all.

Currently, transformation from TP to Wordpress is very difficult. Either you have to to sacrifice couple dozens of hours of your valuable time to reach the transformation, or you have to cash out some Typepad to Wordpress professionals.