The number of lawyers moving their blogs from Typepad to a WordPress based blogging platform is growing.
I blogged recently about recent Typepad problems and it no longer being a credible platform for blogging lawyers.
As recently as this last week, another law firm decided to move their Typepad law blogs to LexBlog’s managed WordPress platform and turnkey solution. I am not sharing the news as a LexBlog ad, but as news for lawyers running on Typepad.
The number of law blogs run on Typepad twenty years ago dwarfed the number of law blogs run on WordPress, then looked down on as open-source software.
Typepad is a proprietary publishing platform, of which its ease of use and customization options attracted legal bloggers.
Over time, proprietary software does not always receive needed updates. In the case of lawyers and Tyepad, the result is causing lawyers a lot of headaches.
In contrast, WordPress is an open-source content management system (CMS) which has grown over twenty years to power over 40% of all websites and about 63% of sites using a CMS. WordPress is also widely used for complex e-commerce sites.
The number of blogs powered by WordPress is likely 80% or more.
I am advising lawyers to move their blogs from Typepad to a WordPress based platform not because LexBlog has a dog in the hunt. I do so because I care.
Blogging is done out of the passion, care and expertise of lawyers. Lawyers who take pride in growing their name and business by personally helping people – by blogging.
These lawyers, like other bloggers, are building a legacy via their writing and contributing to our growing body of law.
I don’t want to see the lawyers stop blogging because publishing on Tyepad became too cumbersome (some have) or worse, to wake up one morning and see their blog content gone. I’ve seen the later happen on some blog platforms and hosts.