Dec 24 2008
Migration: from Blogger to WordPress
For last couple of weeks I was preparing to move my blog to WordPress powered blog. At the very beginning I thought It would be not possible to move my actual content, but it became easier than I have imagined. The first thing to notice is that my original blog was hosted by Google (at their blogspot service). And moving blog content from blogspot (blogger) was the hardest part. First of all, you should be aware, that WordPress as a platform supports import and export. It is able to import content from different sources (as shown in the picture).
The export is available as .xml file (that could be later easily imported to another WordPress blog). Back to migration… The first thing to do is to log in to your google/blogspot account. Then, choose import (blogger) and you will get redirected to your google/blogger account with information that there was a demand to authenticate. You should agree, and all your posts, comments (categories too!) are being transferred into your WordPress blog. But… that’s not exactly the case I had to go through :) The hosting I am currently using does not support SSL, and Google does not allow authenticating if request is not made over SSL. But there is another way to go. You may simply create a ‘temporary’ blog on WordPress.com. They support SSL, so there is no problem in getting all your blogger account content. The next thing is to export imported content, and import it in any WordPress blog (it may actually take a while, and there’s been some problems with huge blogs – containing 2000+ notes – but in this case, the solution is to divide xml file into a few smaller ones). The whole process is quite simple, and it didn’t take me more than half an hour to go through it. Nice thing worth notice is that you will be asked if you want to have an account created (account with the name that all posts in blogger was signed by), so after the import you should be ready to post :) ah… another thing, as you may expect, categories are being imported without problem, and they are being automatically assigned to posts during import. Worried about drafts? They get imported too (as drafts, of course :)
Great piece of software, great features, great blog engine. Nothing more to add.
