Weblogs
Manage
Your Weblog Overview
The Weblog Overview is the main page for the weblog management area and can be accessed by clicking the name of the weblog from your Weblogs tab.
Summary information about the weblog is shown: the name and URL of the weblog and counts for the number of posts and number of comments in the weblog.
You can view the weblog in a new browser window by clicking the URL link. You can also view the visitor stats for the weblog by clicking the “View Visitor Stats and Referrers” link.
Recent activity on the weblog is displayed, such as recent posts and recent comments.
There are Weblog Editing Shortcuts for performing common tasks with your weblog, where you can access the specific areas for these tasks with a single click.
While working on a weblog, you can come back to the Weblog Overview page by clicking the Manage tab.
Managing Your Existing Posts
Manage your weblog posts by clicking the 
Edit Posts shortcut link for the weblog on your Weblogs tab. This opens the List All Posts page where you can edit any of the posts that you have access to edit by clicking on the post Title.
Use the filter options to view posts by category, author or posting status (the second selector changes on the choice you made with the first selector). Press the Go button to display the filtered posts.
You can also use the drop-down to select the number of posts to display in the list.
Deleting Multiple Posts
Delete more than one post at a time by checking the boxes under the “Delete” column for the posts you wish to remove and press the DELETE button.
A confirmation popup window opens asking you to confirm that you would actually like to delete the posts. Select “Yes, Delete” or “No, Cancel”. There is no undo, and the posts will be permanently removed from your weblog, so make sure to delete carefully.
Importing Weblog Content
With TypePad’s Import feature, you can easily import existing content into TypePad.
Converting an Existing Weblog
To import, the content needs to be in the proper format so it is readable by the system. You can convert content from other weblogging systems for import into your TypePad weblog. Below are instructions for converting content from some popular weblogging systems:
Movable Type
Use the Export page in Movable Type to export your existing content to a file. Save this file to your computer and upload it to TypePad using Option B when Importing Content.
Blogger/Blogspot/Blogger Pro
A) Log into your Blogger account, then switch into template-editing mode. Make a copy of your current template; you will be replacing your Blogger template with the conversion template.
Replace your Blogger template with the following:
<Blogger>
AUTHOR: <$BlogItemAuthor$>
TITLE: <PostSubject><$BlogItemSubject$></PostSubject>
DATE: <$BlogItemDateTime$>
-----
BODY:
<$BlogItemBody$>
--------
</Blogger>
B) Click the Settings tab for the weblog:
• On the Publishing sub-tab, change your Blog Filename to a different filename; this will prevent you from overwriting your main index file. Note: Blogspot does not have the option to set the output filename, so output to the main index page instead. This is the default setting for Blogspot, so you should not need to change anything.
• On the Formatting sub-tab, set your weblog to display all of your posts on the main index page. There is no explicit setting for this; instead, you should change the number of days displayed on your front page (Show N days’ posts on main page) higher than the number of days that you have been weblogging.
• Set Timestamp Format to the format MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM|PM. (Note: the format will not look like this in the menu; instead it will be the current time, formatted.)
• Set Convert Line Breaks to No.
• On the Archiving sub-tab, set Archive Frequency to No Archive. This will prevent your archives from being overwritten with the new template.
C) Switch back to the Posts screen, and Publish your weblog. You will end up with a single file with all of your posts, formatted using the above template, at the location specified in your Settings.
Enter the URL of this export file using Option A when Importing Content.
Radio Userland
Use the Radio exporter:
http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/misc/radio/radio8/exporter/
Upload the file to TypePad using Option B when Importing Content.
Content in Another Format
If you are not using one of the above weblogging services, you can still import your posts if you can create a file in the import format that TypePad's import function uses. The following document shows the import format you will need to use (Note: TypePad uses the same format as Movable Type):
http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mtimport.html
Importing Content
Once you have your weblog content in the appropriate format, you can import this file into TypePad. If you do not have a weblog to import into, set this up first by Creating a New Weblog.
To import posts into the weblog, click the Edit Posts shortcut link for the weblog on your Weblogs tab. Then click the Import/Export link to enter the Import area:
1 Choose Option A or B
- Option A
- Use Option A if your export file is online, to enter the URL of the export file.
- Enter the full URL, such as:
http://www.example.com/export.txt
- Option B
- Use Option B if you have saved the export file, to browse for the file on your computer.
2 Press “Import”
Press the Import button and your posts will be imported into the weblog.
After this has completed, view the listing of your posts on the List All Posts page for the weblog. Publish the weblog to see the changes on your site.
Exporting Your Weblog Content
To export posts from your weblog, click the Edit Posts shortcut link for the weblog on your Weblogs tab. Then click the Import/Export link to enter the Export area.
To save the exported data to a file, you can right-click the Export link and choose Save Target As... to choose a location. On the Macintosh, hold down the option key while clicking on the link.
This will give you a file that contains your weblog posts. The file can be saved on your local computer as a backup, or imported into another weblog.
Searching and Replacing Text
Use the Search & Replace tool to search through all of your entries, or to replace every instance of one word/phrase/character with another.
IMPORTANT: be careful when doing a replace, because there is no undo. If you are making a replacement in many of your entries, you may wish to first use the Export feature to back up your entries.
Search fields
Choose which fields to search: Title, Entry Body, Extended Post, Keywords
By default, search and replace operates on the Title, Entry Body, and Extended Entry Body fields of each post in your weblog. You can tune the Search & Replace to operate on only a subset of these fields by checking and unchecking the Search fields boxes.
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