How to import posts from blogger beta to wordpress

Import Blogger posts to Wordpress

Posted by TJantunen in General, ... | 03.21.2007 - 10:25 am

My desk and coffee mug When I moved my entire blog into this domain and changed software from Blogger Beta to Wordpress, I faced a big problem, how I am going to move my posts from Blogger to Wordpress? I was looking for some Wordpress plugins to do that work. It was not a really tempting idea to move all my posts just using copy+paste method. Well, I did not find any good plugins to do that job (from Blogger Beta) . But I was not looking very hard after all.

But I discovered a very easy and fast solution to move all my posts+comments and categories from Blogger Beta to Wordpress. First you have to create account to Wordpress.com, creating account takes about 1 minute. After your account is ready you can play with your new Wordpress blog. We only want to import our Blogger beta posts so go to “Manage” tab and choose “Import”. Choose “Blogger” and after that “Authorize” and grant access to your Blogger beta blog. After that you just need to press “Import” and all your posts and comments are imported to your new Wordpress blog. After that, you have to do “Export” from your current Wordpress.com blog to get posts and comments to your real Wordpress blog. Export all posts to xml file and go to your real Wordpress blog (in my case http://tjantunen.com) . Choose “Manage” tab and “Import” then choose Wordpress, after that you just need to find previously generated xml file from your computers hard drive and that’s it! All your posts, comments and categories are now imported. And you did not need any plugins to do this.

I hope that this will help someone who is in same situation that I was when moving from Blogger Beta to Wordpress.

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22 responses on "Import Blogger posts to Wordpress" »

newyorkdude
Posted on 23 March, 2007

What is the advantage of Wordpress vs Blogger? Why go to all the trouble?

TJantunen
Posted on 23 March, 2007

I can customize the looks of my blog much more with Wordpress. And there is a lot of useful plugins available to wordpress. After all it is not so hard to move from blogger to wordpress, if you know something about HTML language.

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Posted on 30 March, 2007

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kerflop
Posted on 10 April, 2007

I’m helping a friend move to Wordpress and you just saved me eons of time. Thanks so much.

TJantunen
Posted on 10 April, 2007

It is nice to hear that you find my instructions useful

Robbo
Posted on 13 April, 2007

Saved me a while setting up plugins

Shame they can’t include that importer in the software, since they obviously have it working.

Douglas Cootey
Posted on 28 April, 2007

Sounds like exactly what I need when I’m ready to make the move. I am curious, however, about one issue. Does the import process retain the original posting dates from Blogger?

TJantunen
Posted on 29 April, 2007

Yes, it keeps original post dates.

Sianne
Posted on 31 May, 2007

I have tried to move my blogger to wordpress and it works. Thank you for the info.

Roseate - Internet Business Promotion And Opportunities
Posted on 27 June, 2007

Hi,

Ok…I just want to know some first steps….Do I first need to open a free wordpress blog, then I host it in a hosting company with the domain name I chose,…then go in those details??

Is that right? and if so please explain a bit if their something I am missing?

Thanks,
Roseate

TJantunen
Posted on 27 June, 2007

Yes, you have to open free wordpress blog. You do not need a domain for that, just go to wordpress.com and open new free blog. Then you are able to import your blogspot posts to that blog and from there you can export those posts to your actual wordpress blog.

Roseate - Internet Business Promotion And Opportunities
Posted on 27 June, 2007

Ok…but then I want to get a domain name and hosting company for my blog…..will that be the next step? or will I need to host my wordpress blog first then import the posts?

As I see your blog is not “.wordpress” so it is hosted else where right?!

Thanks,

TJantunen
Posted on 27 June, 2007

Yes, you need to get domain name for your own blog, if you do not want to use .wordpress blogs.

Check out this post http://tjantunen.com/2007/04/25/benefits-of-having-your-own-domain/
From there you will find one hosting company and I am using that same company.

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Jason
Posted on 3 September, 2007

Worked perfect! Very simple and clear instructions. Thanks for making my life so much easier.

jameswillisisthebest
Posted on 8 September, 2007

This is my first post
just saying HI

Meg Q
Posted on 24 October, 2007

My installation was NOT wanting to play ball with the import feature - this worked *perfectly*. Thanks so much!

Albanian Blogger
Posted on 28 November, 2007

Thanks a lot. This was extremely helpful to me.

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Posted on 20 December, 2007

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mondoreb
Posted on 17 March, 2008

Hi!

This was extremely helpful. I’ve installed and wiped my site 4 times and am on my fifth. Every time I use the import feature in my new blog WP dashboard, it imports the files fine–and wipes out my ability to do new posts, categories and manage posts.

I’m trying this method. Any other tips.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed and I’ll let you know!

Angie
Posted on 13 June, 2008

Thanks a lot for this tip. I’ve been having a hard time importing my files from blogger to wordpress.

Keep it up.

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