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.
Give your blog a blogspot name.
Log onto your WordPress admin section. Click on Manage > Import > Blogger
Click Authorize to log into your Google account.
Click Grant Access to allow WordPress to access your Blogger Account.
If all goes well, you should now see a list of your Blogger.com blogs in your WordPress admin.
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?”:
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.
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”.
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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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.
Hi, I have a blogger in my host, and say 0/0. What’s the solution at this problem?
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.
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
Hi,
I have wrote simple instructions to import blogger posts to wordpress, http://tjantunen.com/2007/03/21/import-blogger-posts-to-wordpress/
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*
@brandon
Same problem here.
Same Problem here
“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.xyz.blogspot.com instead of http://www.xyz.com and still seeing 0/0 when i tried to import in wordpress. pls help.
Thanks A LOT! At the VERY limited “support page” of wordpress they couldn’t solve this… and it’s SO simple. Thanks, thanks.