The steps outlined below were inspired by my frustration with attempting to import my FTP-published Blogger blog to WordPress on my host. Bloggers who have their blogs hosted on BlogSpot.com can use this solution as well. Enjoy.
On January 6, 2007, I left GoDaddy for Media Temple as my new host. It was liberating! I was anxious to move my FTP-published Blogger blog to WordPress, but I wasn’t prepared for the headache I would face.
Since I upgraded my blog to the newest Blogger, the legacy Blogger import tool provided by WordPress was useless. I scoured the web for a solution and found most to be less than desirable. Finally, on February 15, 2007, I completed by my WordPress migration. How did I do it? Read on.
1. Switch your FTP-published blog to BlogSpot. This option is located under “Publishing” in your Blogger account. This is the most important step, because otherwise, you will NOT be able to import your blog.
2. Create an account and blog on WordPress.com. If you have several blogs to migrate, create a new one for each on WordPress.com. Name them the same as your existing blogs.
3. On WordPress.com in your account settings, locate “Manage” and click “Import” and then “Blogger”. Next, click “Activate”. You will be prompted to allow WordPress access to your Google account to import your blog.
4. Once you’ve passed your credentials, it’s time to import! Locate the blog of interest under “Blogger Blogs” and click “Import”. After a few minutes, you’ll have your entire blog (with comments) migrated to WordPress.com.
5. Now that you’ve successfully imported your Blogger blog to WordPress.com, it’s now time to export it as an XML file. Again, locate “Manage” in your WordPress.com account, and click “Export”. Save the file to your local PC.
6. Download the WordPress-to-WordPress import/export plugin. Follow the directions outlined to install the plugin on your server for WordPress. This is required to save your comments during the final import phase.
7. Now that you’ve installed the import/export plugin, it’s almost time to use the XML file you saved earlier to complete the import of your blog to WordPress on your server. Login to the WordPress dashboard on your server. Locate and click “Import”. You should see a new import tool simply called “WordPress”. Click it.
8. Locate and select the XML file you exported from WordPress.com. Click “Import”.
9. WordPress will now parse and import the XML file to your installation. This will take a few minutes.
10. Done! All of your posts, drafts (cool, eh?) and comments from your Blogger blog are now available in your new WordPress installation. Easy as pumpkin pie, baby!
Note: If you used “labels” on your Blogger blog, these will be imported as “categories” in WordPress. Depending on the number of labels you’ve created and how they’re structured, chances are that you will want to clean up your categories in WordPress.
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Hi there
I use blogger to publish to my blog on my own domain, and am considering changing to wordpress.
You write “Since I upgraded my blog to the newest Blogger,”
I have upgraded in the sense that I now log in to blogger via my google account etc, but I still have an old-style template at its core. (The reason being that I have been considering moving to WordPress for a while so the hassle of reconfiguring my template for total upgrade to Blogger alone just isn’t worth it.)
Is what you are suggesting above something that would work for me, or does it only work for the completely upgraded blogger blogs?
Thanks for your time
Dermod
Marlo,
“I’m still a kid in a candy store”. That’s how much I enjoy the (mt)’s Grid platform. Is it perfect? Not yet, but they’re working on it. Some people have jumped shipped, but I have patience. I’m not going anywhere. I’m happy.
Are you on MT’s Grid-Server? How do you like it so far? I’m thinking about moving my blog to MT.