Import Blogger Posts & Comments to Wordpress Easily
March 18th, 2006After my recent Wordpress move, many users emailed me to ask me how simple (or difficult) it was to move posts and comments from Blogger to Wordpress…
It was as simple as possible I would say. I understand you have already installed the latest Wordpress version 2 in the directory or root where you want it. See these official installation instructions. I installed the latest version Wordpress 2.0.2 as a fresh install (In fact my Dreamhost webhosting did a one click Wordpress install with MySQL database creation in a few minutes).
I tried their wiki instructions, but they were not correct. Other resources explained tips for importing into Wordpress 1.5, where the blogger import script was not present and there were different tricks for importing posts and comments.
Settings in Blogger
I just ensured that some settings were inspired from different feedbacks I read elsewhere. Before doing anything, back up your Blogger blog first.
Click Formatting and change the Timestamp Format to be mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM/PM (the first choice in the dropdown menu).
Click Archiving and set Archive Frequency to ‘monthly’
These settings are already set in Blogger by default. I already had these settings in my blog anyway, so effectively I made no change my Blogger settings.
Settings in Wordpress
Login into Wordpress. Go to Import. Click on Blogger – “Import posts and comments from a Blogger account”. Fill in your blogger username and password.
It will list all your blogger blogs as you see on the Blogger dashboard. Click on the blog you want to move to Wordpress. And the Import will start automatically. Time taken will depend on how large your blog is. It took me a 2-3 minutes for a 1000 posts.
Remember, do not stop, reload or restart while the process is going on. It seems at times that the importing process is stuck, but it is continuing in the background. After all is done, it will tell you it is done and you can ‘Move on”…
If for some reason things get stuck, you can “reset the importer”.
View your new Wordpress blog manage and see all your posts and comments are imported.
If you install Wordpress in a subdirectory instead of the root of your domain, read all about hosting Wordpress in an alternative directory.
Importing Bugs
- Several posts lost their formatting like text in bold, italics etc…
- The posts which had codes like javascript, html tags etc were lost these codes.
- Iframes inserted inside posts dissappeared. e.g. all those Amazon ads are displayed via iframes codes and they were gone.
- Of course all your customizations to the Blogger template need to be done again to the Wordpress template now.
- Also read how to prevent errors by unclosed tags in Wordpress Visual Text Editor.
Note: This post just gives my experience of importing from Blogger to Wordpress. Always back up your Blogger blog before doing this. I do not take any responsibilty if this does not work for you or causes errors in your blogs.
All I can say it could not have been more easier. Nothing was affected in any way on my Blogger blog. And all posts and comments are on Wordpress.
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Good tips. I just transfered my blog site to wordpress and wordpress is a winner
Great post!…I try to do this myself weekly, and it does pay off. It gets your name and site out there for more people to see it
I did not know there is a way to moving comments from blogger to wordpress.
I did not know there is a way to moving comments from blogger to wordpress.
Great post!…I try to do this myself weekly, and it does pay off. It gets your name and site out there for more people to see it ! best regards reel.
Thanks
I did not know there is a way to moving comments from blogger to wordpress.
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Great post!…I try to do this myself weekly, and it does pay off. It gets your name and site out there for more people to see it
I’ve tried importing my posts but it just wouldn’t work. I read from somewhere else that I need to set the archive to “no archive” (because I had a problem that wordpress only imported the first post of the month from blogger!)…I’ve tried that and the “monthly” archive option but to no avail..
It keeps getting stuck after importing 4 posts then the
There are many useful informations in this great article…I really enjoy reading the whole blog that you write.
. dotku | March 19th, 2006 #
would it support MSN Space transformation?
dotku: yes it should
cool way it is explained! thanks very much..
Good tips. I just transfered my blog site to wordpress and wordpress is a winner
thank you for great article….
Works like a charm…
Great post, very detailed…makes me realize how little I know!
According to Dell the reason for the delay was the drivers weren’t ready and their app which helps automate the installation process was not ready. Google it and you’ll find the stories…
Didn’t work for me, but I found this alternative solution: http://alex.eftimie.ro/?p=1
great tip! i have finally moved my blogger account into wordpress platform including SEO points hopefully, it worked perfectly from my vertito.blogspot.com blogger account
sharing for thanks.. i wish the successfrom now on writing
great tip! i have finally moved my blogger account into wordpress platform including SEO points hopefully, it worked perfectly from my vertito.blogspot.com blogger account
Is it not give any effect with Page Rank and SEO?
I’m guessing the only way to do this in Javascript would be to use the onresize event, and then
merci thank you
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According to Dell the reason for the delay was the drivers weren’t ready and their app which helps automate the installation process was not ready. Google it and you’ll find the stories…
I failed to import..there is a reason written that you cannot import from blogger at this time..check out the new version of wordpress to import. :(
thanks for everything.
Great post! My blog is importing now, it’s a little slow, took 10 minutes to start working on post 1 of 37.
I keep getting a error with google, when I click “authorize” this come up:
The page you have requested cannot be displayed. Another site was requesting access to your Google Account, but sent a malformed request. Please contact the site that you were trying to use when you received this message to inform them of the error. A detailed error message follows:
The site “http://wordpress.com” has not been registered.
Can you help?