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I have Wordpress envy. But I am not going to switch. I've got too much invested in TypePad. One thing in particular is stoking my Wordpress envy. I want to offer my readers the ability to subscribe to a comment thread. I know there's a plugin for Wordpress that does that. Is there any code I can put into my TypePad template that does the same thing?
Comments (27) | Posted February 10, 2007 in Venture Capital and Technology
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You are giving me way too many ways to plug our stuff. Once MobaTalk is available for TypePad plug in you will be able to have your comment stream in RSS. You will also be able to track all the comments you have made on any MobaTalk enabled website. It will save all of your audio, video and image comments in your dashboard.
Posted by: Jeff | Feb 10, 2007 11:33:28 AM
There's a way to do a global comments thread pretty easily. I will try to dig it out for you.
Posted by: joshua | Feb 10, 2007 11:49:03 AM
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Posted by: KK_f | Feb 10, 2007 12:32:16 PM
Since I don't use TypePad, I don't know, but I question the decision to not move :)
There's the content: You could port everything over. All comments, everything. Probably best to duplicate it and leave a version at this site, but lock it down so no more comments can be added the old blog.
There's your URL: You'd much rather be on your own URL at avc.com. So, if you switch to WP, you'd have that. What happens to all the traffic from there? Redirect them. If TypePad won't let you do it, I am sure there is a javascript something you could do to make the redirect happen. And if Typepad doesn't hmmm... what does that say about helping people leave etc. (I have no clue if they do or don't). Also, you could remove most of your sidebar widgets and have a widget that tells users you've moved. So, that could help too.
There's Search: Sure this shows up high on Google Search, but the redirect will fix that when people land there.
Feeds: Keep your feedburner address the same and just change where the feed is published. that way you shouldn't lose anyone. (Oh, you'd probably lose your pre-feedburner guys that you'd once mentioned)
Widgets: You could probably get every single widget plugin for WP
Technorati: that one seems tricky. From a one minute look, it seems like you'd need to claim your new blog and all the links would need to update. Not positive.
Other widgets: You could update the location of your blog to keep your communities.
And I am sure there are other things I am missing...
Ok, so you'd definitely lose some things. But I just look at models that are open (WP) versus closed (TP) and usually the open ones win. They almost always win in terms of speed of development. Unless TypePad figures figures out a way to let others do their development, they'll be behind.And waiting another year will just make it even more painful etc.
But, I do see your point... there will be pain and the pain may not be worth it. But I just thought I'd throw those thoughts out there.
Posted by: Shripriya | Feb 10, 2007 12:53:50 PM
Fred, I have to admit, I'm totally diggin my Wordpress experience at
Posted by: Tom W. | Feb 10, 2007 1:14:35 PM
There is a way, I think, Richard has it on R/WW, I will get more details.
Alex
P.S. the Appendix removal ad is making me question what they did to me when I was 4 years old...
Posted by: Alex Iskold | Feb 10, 2007 1:55:35 PM
You might try looking at this:
http://www.everitz.com/sol/mt-notifier/index.php
Posted by: Michael Webster | Feb 10, 2007 2:11:21 PM
if you wanted to switch, you could do what jarvis did. just leave the old blog up and continue on at a new location. only problem is you don't have a domain (except for fastavc) and are pretty much tied to this.
Posted by: jeremy | Feb 10, 2007 2:29:59 PM
Fred, it's really quite easy to set up a feed for comments on a TypePad blog if you want. I've posted the instructions here:
http://www.typepadhacks.org/2006/03/how_to_make_fol.html
Of course, the comment feed pulls from the whole blog, not just individual posts and I know that what you're really looking for is the WP plugin that tracks individual comment threads. Still, it's a start. And I'd certainly rather get comment updates via RSS than email.
It seems to me that it might be possible to write a comment feed that limits itself to specific categories or posts by hacking around a bit with the tags. I'll have to give it some thought.
Really, though, what I'd like to see is a piece of FeedFlare that creates an RSS feed for the comments on each post. That would be a sweet thing. You've got juice at FB… Why not see if you can get them to build it?
Posted by: john t unger | Feb 10, 2007 5:51:53 PM
Hi Fred, we're working on something over at Tangler which might be interesting to you. Drop me a line and I'll give you an intro.
Cheers.
Posted by: Mick Liubinskas | Feb 10, 2007 10:53:34 PM
Fred, I am on TypePad. I use co.mments. After I post I hit a bookmarklet and I add it to the feed.
Posted by: Steve Rubel | Feb 11, 2007 8:54:28 AM
In theory I think you could use Yahoo pipes, see if this inspires you:
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/02/youtunes_an_exa.html
Posted by: R | Feb 11, 2007 11:49:50 AM
Darn, you almost had me excited. I thought you were going to switch to Wordpress.
Personally I really don't like Typepad. Why? Well there are a few reasons, but mostly it is because I sometimes have to login to post a comment. Then once I make a comment, I do not get a true link to my site.
This takes away from a give-the-user-control situation and is against the entire Web 2.0 idea.
Posted by: Dustin | Feb 11, 2007 2:28:54 PM
Yes, WordPress has a plugin which allows email subscription to comment threads. WordPress natively creates an RSS feed for every post's comment thread. (There's an RSS feed for just about anything, actually, in several major feed formats [Atom, and two versions of RSS].)
Posted by: Rick Beckman | Feb 14, 2007 5:55:35 PM
Don't know of a TypePad equivalent, however, you can recommend commenters use coComment. (Free service for tracking comments.)
~ Teli
Posted by: Teli Adlam | Feb 14, 2007 6:54:02 PM
OK, I dunno much about TypePad, but maybe you really should switch to Wordpress. I found this at the footer:
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/3502/rroe5.png
Posted by: Baris Unver | Feb 14, 2007 6:58:06 PM
I don't get the gripe. Just add /feed or ?feed=rss2 to the end of any wordpress entry page to get the comment feed. Example: http://www.technosailor.com/has-windows-vista-been-released/feed
Posted by: Aaron Brazell | Feb 14, 2007 7:23:58 PM
I moved from Blogware about 9 months ago and haven't regretted it one bit. Moving to WP from Typepad is a doddle. Just thinking about it should be enough to make you want to press the button...don't stay in the wilderness!
Posted by: Everton | Feb 14, 2007 8:08:55 PM
My case of WordPress envy was so bad that I switched without bothering to move any of my old posts. I know I could have ported them over, but it was just too much trouble (at least, as far as maintaining incoming links), especially since a lot of the older posts were rather embarrassing politically.
But moving from Movable Type to WordPress reminds me of my first backpacking trip: after 8 days and nearly 80 miles carrying 60 pounds on my back (when, at the time, I only weighed 120), we took off our packs and jogged, literally jogged, up a mountain from 9900 feet to over 13,000 feet. And that's exactly the contrast between MT and WP.
I grabbed a widgetized theme (dkret2) and had my blog up in a couple of hours. New functionality is just a download and an upload away. No coding. It's an amazing application, supported by an amazing community. Make the move if you can.
Posted by: Dave Trowbridge | Feb 14, 2007 11:04:01 PM
I was on Movable Type for a few months, switched to WordPress and never regretted it.
Posted by: Ben G. | Feb 15, 2007 10:09:59 AM
I use Subscribe2 and 'Subscribe to comments' with most of my WP blogs. It's awesome...and so is wordpress by the way.
Posted by: Scott Gunsaullus | Feb 15, 2007 11:10:54 AM
There is a global comments feed available on WP blogs. It can be accessed from [wp-root]/comments/feed/.
So de we have a convert?
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