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How To Import Blogger.com Posts Into WordPress

Posted by Krista

I spent much of today trying to import some old posts out of Blogger and into WordPress. Fortunately, WordPress 2.2 makes it relatively painless. Some background - I have multiple blogs on the new Blogger.com platform. I’ve been hosting them on my own server, not blogspot.com, which initially caused me some problems with the transfer. Luckily, I figured it out. If you’re in the same boat, here’s the step by step:

Make sure you upgrade to WordPress 2.2 (or 2.2.1 which was released 3 days ago). This won’t work in WordPress 2.1 or less.

Make sure the blog you want to transfer is hosted on Blogspot.com. If yours isn’t, log onto Blogger.com. Select Settings > Publishing. Then click on publish at blogspot.com.

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Give your blog a blogspot name.

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Log onto your WordPress admin section. Click on Manage > Import > Blogger

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Click Authorize to log into your Google account.

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Click Grant Access to allow WordPress to access your Blogger Account.

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If all goes well, you should now see a list of your Blogger.com blogs in your WordPress admin.

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The ones that aren’t hosted on Blogspot.com will probably say “0/0″ for the posts and if you try to import them, you’ll receive an error like the following which says “Nothing was imported. Have you already imported this blog?”:

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The ones that are hosted on Blogspot.com will say something like “0/154″ where the second number is the number of posts you have on Blogspot.com. You’ll also see a similar number for comments. Click “import”. As it’s importing, there should be a blue bar that shows you how many posts it’s imported. When it’s finished, the button should change to “Set Authors”. Click the button.

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On the next screen, you’ll have to match up your Blogger author with your WordPress author settings. When you finish that, click “Save Changes”.

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Your posts should now be imported. You will probably have to go through each of them and add tags/categories and clean them up a bit, but the hard part is done.

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Comments

Sarah Lewis September 19, 2007

Your offhand reference to the difference between blogspot-hosted blogs and others just saved me a ton of frustration! Thanks for providing such helpful info.

Italo April 30, 2008

Hi, I have a blogger in my host, and say 0/0. What’s the solution at this problem?

admin April 30, 2008

Hi Italo - you have to switch your blog from stand alone to a blogspot.com blog and it will work. I’ve walked you through the steps on how to do so in the article above.

Paula G July 14, 2008

This is a great article. My problem is that I am doing this for a client who granted me access to her Blogspot blog. When I go into Wordpress — Import from Blogger. I get to the Grant access screen & it just tells me it times out. I get a google error. If I could get past this it’d be great, but I am stuck here & can’t find a way around it yet.

Any ideas?

Warmly
_Paula

TJantunen October 8, 2008

Hi,

I have wrote simple instructions to import blogger posts to wordpress, http://tjantunen.com/2007/03/21/import-blogger-posts-to-wordpress/

Brandon M. Sergent February 13, 2009

Yeah, and at step authorize I get this madness.

Could not connect to https://www.google.com

There was a problem opening a secure connection to Google. This is what went wrong:

The operation completed successfully.
(0)

Thank you for creating with WordPress. | Documentation | Feedback

Version 2.7.1

*facepalm*

So I guess like, I have a problem, but I don’t? *sigh*

TuNiSiE April 10, 2009

@brandon

Same problem here.

Kaippally August 9, 2009

Same Problem here :(

eva August 16, 2009

“Hi Italo - you have to switch your blog from stand alone to a blogspot.com blog and it will work. I’ve walked you through the steps on how to do so in the article above.”

hi I am also having this problem. Do you mean since I seeing 0/0 for the posts. So I cant import my blogger post to wordpress. I already tried switching back my blog to http://www.xxx.blogspot.com instead of http://www.xxx.com and still seeing 0/0 when i tried to import in wordpress. pls help.

Daniel Iván September 26, 2009

Thanks A LOT! At the VERY limited “support page” of wordpress they couldn’t solve this… and it’s SO simple. Thanks, thanks.

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