- Typepad is ready to finish the support for its blog platform since September 30, 2025
- Accounts, blogs and all user content will no longer be available to download
- WordPress has a 61.4% share in the CMS market
Typepad has announced the “difficult decision” to close in just a few weeks, so it is only one of the many companies that faces the anger of the challenging economy and strong competition.
The blog platform will be closed from September 30, 2025, when access to accounts, blogs and all user content will be removed permanently.
With users they warned that they will no longer be able to access or export blog content after this date, they only have one month to migrate to a different service.
Typepad will close permanently in just one month
The company directed users affected to a separate support page, which details how they can export to alternative platforms.
Typepad uses the mobile type import format (MTIF) to generate export files, which means that users can easily import their blogs to popular platforms such as WordPress.
The “difficult decision” to close the site occurs after Typepad fell to the disappearance of WordPress, but during his first days he served as a backend for many important publications, including Cabling, ALPHABET, he CBChe BBC and Sky News.
Any user who pays for the platform will not have to make any change in their account: the billing will stop automatically and any recent payment will issue a prorated reimbursement.
For this melody, users are requested to ensure that their payment methods are updated to guarantee a problem without problems.
In the absence of a frequently asked questions page, those who need additional support are told to send a ticket from their Typepad account.
“We really appreciate your business and apologize for any inconvenience that this can cause. Thank you for being a valuable customer,” the company wrote.
Last year, Automatic made a change in Tumblr that would be executed in WordPress many years after acquiring the microblogging site.
WordPress has achieved great successes in recent years, becoming the most popular website creation software and promoting more than 43% of all Internet. It also has a market share of 61.4% of the CMS market.
