![]() I tried multiple times to edit the raw HTML in Blogsy to add the simple inline CSS to the IMG tag of: Now this might be fine if the CSS for my theme on TypePad defined a class like that, but it doesn't. The issue seems to be that Blogsy would only send to TypePad the tag with this attribute: However, try as I might, I could not get Blogsy to right-justify and wrap the image. It's been working well for sites hosted on WordPress, but not so well for TypePad.īecause the TypePad app is fairly useless on the iPad, I wrote the post using Blogsy, a fairly interesting and useful blogging app for the iPad. In order to write more regularly, I've been trying out using the iPad as a writing platform. (Which has now been changed to be correctly right-justified, but through the regular desktop web interface, not to the mobile interface.) Yesterday's blog post epitomizes one of the problems I have with creating blog posts on a tablet that work with TypePad, the service with which I started hosting this site way back in 2005.Īll I wanted to do is have an image that was right-justified with the text wrapping around it. If you found this post interesting or useful, please consider either: but hopefully it should mean fewer spam comments to look at in the admin interface. It may not be enough to get me to stop using full moderation on my articles. I'm pleased to see TypePad moving this way. (And some day I'd like to move this blog and Disruptive Telephony over to WordPress, too - if only I can carve out the considerable time that will be involved with the move.) However, I've also turned on full moderation on the couple of remaining blogs I still have on TypePad.Īll my new blogs and other sites are over on WordPress where I've been very happy with the anti-spam services that I get from Akismet. Yes! The folks at TypePad announced today they going to start using Akismet to fight blog comment spam! As a user of TypePad since 2005-ish, I've long been frustrated with how poorly TypePad's anti-comment-spam mechanisms have worked and have written about that, although granted that particular incident was now 3.5 yrs ago and things have improved a bit in that I'm not seeing quite as much spam. Perhaps this IS the year when I finally figure out how to migrate my 5 remaining Typepad blogs over to Wordpress… sigh… So they are really just existing for the people like me who just haven’t gotten around to moving our blogs to some other platform. that the Wikipedia article about TypePad notes that Typepad stopped accepting new signups as of 2020. And that the Twitter account only gets occasionally updated about trouble issues.Īnd. Add to that the fact that the “Everything Typepad” site hasn’t been updated with a new post since October 2021. The complete lack of any information in the Typepad knowledge base about working with external editors does concern me. Figure Out How To Move Away From Typepad! You should now be able to create posts in MarsEdit and publish them on a Typepad blog. (If not, you may need to hit the refresh circle.) Once this is done, you should see the MarsEdit interface load the most recent posts into the editor window. This is where you enter your Typepad username and password. Here’s a screenshot of the preferences screen:Īfter you save those settings, MarsEdit will prompt you to “login” to your blog. Under Connection Settings, you need to use: The auto-configuration will fail, and you will be prompted to manually configure the site. Type in the name and URL of your Typepad blog and press “Continue”. In the main MarsEdit window, press the “+” in the lower left corner of the app to add a new blog. (And that is not the actual value for one of my blogs.) 2. The hex string that I show in bold is the part you need. Once you are logged into Typepad, and are in the settings for one of your blogs, the URL in your browser will be something like: I couldn’t find this in any of the settings, but you can get it from the URL. So for anyone still remaining on Typepad who wants to do this, here is what you need to do. And… there is nothing whatsoever in the Typepad knowledge base about external editors, XML-RPC, “Movable Type”, or anything else. And in a sign of how far the mighty (Typepad) have fallen, a Typepad blog can’t be auto configured by MarsEdit, and isn’t even listed anymore on the MarsEdit manual configuration page. ![]() ![]() How do you configure MarsEdit to work with the Typepad blogging platform? As I’ve started to try to get back into blogging more, I found that MarsEdit, the tool I’ve been using to write blog posts for 10+ years now, was no longer connecting to Typepad.
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