Early Blogging Service Typepad Is Shutting Down For Good

Typepad, a blogging work that launched successful nan aforesaid twelvemonth arsenic WordPress, has announced that it's shutting down connected September 30. "We person made nan difficult determination to discontinue Typepad," its squad said successful a post. Several major publications utilized it arsenic a backend for their websites successful its early years, and it moreover released an app successful 2008, but it soon fell down WordPress successful popularity. The work stopped accepting caller signups sometime successful 2020 but continued supporting its aged customers. One personification contacted Typepad backmost successful March this twelvemonth and was told that Typepad still supports its "existing customers and location are nary plans for that to change," truthful shutting it down was a caller decision.

After September 30, users will nary longer beryllium capable to entree their relationship guidance settings, their blogs and each associated content. Everything will beryllium deactivated permanently. They will, however, beryllium capable to export their contented earlier September 30 successful Movable Type Import Format, which they tin past upload to WordPress. Typepad will extremity charging users for subscription starting connected August 31, and if a personification has precocious made a payment, it "will effort to rumor a prorated refund to nan costs method connected file." There are astir apt only a fewer group still utilizing Typepad these days, but let's move 1 retired for nan aged blogging service.