You can now move all blogs posts and comments from your Blogger account into your WordPress blog with the click of a button - it's so simple that even mom can do it as long as her blog is hosted on the new Blogger platform.
Wordpress.com and self-hosted Worpress 2.2 installations ship default with a free Blogger Importer plugin that can be accessed from your Wordpress dashboard (Manage -> Import -> Blogger)
All you have to do is authorize Wordpress to use your Google account and Wordpress will display a list of blogs associated with Blogger account. Select the blog that you like to import in blogger and click import. Voila!
All your posts, comments, categories (Blogger labels) and users will be visible in Wordpress in few minutes depending on the size of your Blogger Blog.
Even if you have no plans to switch from Blogger to Wordpress, this is still an excellent option to create a backup of all the posts and comments from the Blogger blog.
For Geeks: This Wordpress-Blogger Importer will not change anything in your Blogger hosted blog - neither the timestamp formats nor the blogger templates. It simple uses the Google Blogger API to fetch the blogger posts into Wordpress.
The Blogger Importer script will however not import the Blogger images to your Wordpress installation. And there's no way to specify filters on your Blogger posts - everything will be imported in one go.
Find this article at: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/05/move-your-blogs-from-blogger-to.html
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Reader Comments
Hi Amit
I am getting following error when I am trying to import.
"This website has not registered with Google to establish a secure connection for authorization requests."
How to resolve this.
Chaitanya
Written on 18/5/07 4:29 PM
To move from Blogger to Wordpress, you are shown an Authorization page on Google Accounts. It will say:
abcd.wordpress.com is requesting access to your Blogger account so that it can post entries on your behalf. You can revoke access at any time under 'My Account'. abcd.wordpress.com will not have access to your password or any personal information. Learn more
This website has not registered with Google to establish a secure connection for authorization requests. We recommend that you continue the process only if you trust the following destination:
/wp-admin/index.php?import=blogger &noheader=true
Simply click the "Grant Access" button (not the Deny access button)
Once the blogger import process is complete, you can clear the account information about your Blogger account from the Wordpress database.
Restarting will not affect any posts you have already imported. If you attempt to re-import a blog, duplicate posts and comments will be skipped.
Written on 18/5/07 4:40 PM
Amit, was just wondering -
Will Wordpress by default publish the drafts too or will it leave them unpublished?
The latter I suppose should be the default action.
Written on 18/5/07 4:56 PM
Hi Amit,
Need some help for shifting from Zomplog to Wordpress....any clue?
Written on 18/5/07 5:34 PM
Hi Mr Amit, Hey can you tell me how I can move from wordpress to blogger? Is there any way to do so rather than copy pasting articles there. Do blogger support import options like wordpress. It will be really great to hear your reply..
thanks ....By the by, Your Blog is fantastic. Great Job :)
regards,
Samiha Esha
Written on 18/5/07 5:51 PM
Excellent post Amit, very informative and helpful as always. Your success with a Blogger domain is inspirational. Are you ever going to move to your own domain some day?
Written on 18/5/07 8:28 PM
this would create duplicates of your post, and could lower your page rank with Google, no?
Written on 19/5/07 1:21 AM
I have tried this and works pretty well, including moving the comments as well. However, I could not find an equally smart way of moving a blog from WP to Blogger. Anyone has a clue or suggestion?
Written on 20/5/07 12:35 PM
really helpful info, thanks; the problem i've encountered so far is that wordpress didnt transfer embedded youtube and other media files. does anybody know how to get around this?
Written on 20/5/07 5:24 PM
There is a tool to export from WordPress to Blogger : http://zeaster.blogspot.com/2007/05/blogsync-20-released-import-your.html
Written on 21/5/07 4:45 PM
Hi Amit,
Here is a comparison of Blogger and Wordpress for the uninitiated and the undecided :
The Ultimate Blogger Wordpress Comparison Guide
Regards
Written on 24/5/07 3:55 PM
Hi Amit
What about incremental imports?
If I add a new post in blogger, Can I import that new post to wordpress without disturbing already imported posts and blogrolls.
Thanks
Chaitanya
Written on 30/5/07 6:32 PM
To be honest I like blogger because of the simplicity of the posting and the drag and drop page elements. I have messed around with blogger and wordpress and when it comes down to it blogger works for me. I use my regular domain, Dafool.com, and it shows my blogspot address.
Written on 8/6/07 9:55 PM
Hi there
Could I ask you please if this tool works with a blogger blog that still uses the old template, and hasn't upgraded to full "layout" (ie the old beta) stylee? I have upgraded in the sense that I now log in using my gmail account, but I'm not sure whether that's enough. Thanks very much
Dermod
Written on 29/6/07 1:59 AM
Dear Amit,
I've just moved my blogger blog to WP after Custom Domain Error mixed up last month & it is now has a nice & happy new home at Wordpress.
I found errors to import posts from blogger so my trick was this. I created a new wp.com account, then imported posts from blogger. i exported the file to xml then i imported the file to my wp host. In the end, i do lost some embeded YouTube, stumbled pages, incoming links and more that i don't acknowledge of.
I wish you write this last week. But, i am planning to move my other blogs to WP soon and this article is super useful.
Thank you so much.
Written on 30/11/07 8:37 PM