The new Blogger beta has apparently made it impossible to import from Blogger to WordPress. Blogger may have changed the structure of their data files. If so, then no way the import can work. No doubt a fix will be along soon enough.
Update: 10/15. There is a fix.
18 responses so far ↓
Matt // August 24, 2006 at 9:09 pm |
Doh!
bobmorris // August 25, 2006 at 7:16 am |
Well there you have it, a Doh from the Big Guy himself! The fix is forthcoming.
netherworld // August 25, 2006 at 12:12 pm |
Thanks Bob and Matt,
I’m looking forward to making the switchover.
Jon // August 28, 2006 at 11:14 am |
guys,
I have just scrounged up changed, purchased a domain and have installed WordPress. I am suffering from the broken importer syndrome, and am looking forward to jumping off that steaming pile of poo that is blogspot.
Keeping myself posted…
May the force be with you. Thank you Matt for what you do…
WebbleYou WordPress Hosting : Blog Archive : How to Move from Blogger Beta to WordPress // September 13, 2006 at 11:55 pm |
[...] At the moment, the built-in Blogger-to-WordPress script that ships with WP2.x is broken for users who have switched to Blogger Beta. [...]
chrizzzs // September 28, 2006 at 10:05 am |
14 days later, no official change yet.
Am in the same position as Jon (post #4).
Please work urgently on the import function!!!!
Anything, but not Everything // October 14, 2006 at 6:35 pm |
[...] When I did a simple search for “Import from Blogger Beta” I found there were a lot of other people who were also trapped and were praying for a fix, but there was a solution too which I didnt even care to try because it had too much labour like saving each months posts in a folder and so on :green:. In the middle of the prayer I thought of trying the ‘ Import from RSS’ feature in WordPress a try. My hope was soon washed away when I found that Blogger didnt have an RSS feed but only an Atom feed or atleast that’s what Firefox detected. I browsed through the code in my Blogger template and found only one XML file which obviously corresponded to the Atom feed. But still i tried imported using the Atom XML file but no use, nothing no posts were imported. I even tried a converter to convert the Atom feed into RSS, it didnt work either. [...]
Anything, but not Everything // October 14, 2006 at 9:40 pm |
[...] When I did a simple search for “Import from Blogger Beta” I found there were a lot of other people who were also trapped and were praying for a fix, but there was a solution too which I didnt even care to try because it had too much labour like saving each months posts in a folder and so on . In the middle of the prayer I thought of trying the ‘ Import from RSS’ feature in WordPress a try. My hope was soon washed away when I found that Blogger didnt have an RSS feed but only an Atom feed or atleast that’s what Firefox detected. I browsed through the code in my Blogger template and found only one XML file which obviously corresponded to the Atom feed. But still i tried imported using the Atom XML file but no use, nothing no posts were imported. I even tried a converter to convert the Atom feed into RSS, it didnt work either. [...]
Rob // October 16, 2006 at 10:43 pm |
I’m in the same bind. Installed WP, registered my domain name, no import available …
agirl001001 // December 1, 2006 at 4:37 pm |
oh the sadness. im going to try to write fix hopefully soon. its sort of irrating me so badly. all the work arounds are unnecessarily complicated
|| syazone tech || » Import from Blogger Beta to Wordpress // December 8, 2006 at 3:06 am |
[...] When I did a simple search for “Import from Blogger Beta” I found there were a lot of other people who were also trapped and were praying for a fix, but there was a solution too which I didnt even care to try because it had too much labour like saving each months posts in a folder and so on . In the middle of the prayer I thought of trying the ‘ Import from RSS’ feature in WordPress a try. My hope was soon washed away when I found that Blogger didnt have an RSS feed but only an Atom feed or atleast that’s what Firefox detected. I browsed through the code in my Blogger template and found only one XML file which obviously corresponded to the Atom feed. But still i tried imported using the Atom XML file but no use, nothing no posts were imported. I even tried a converter to convert the Atom feed into RSS, it didnt work either. [...]
Ady // December 21, 2006 at 3:31 pm |
Hi all,
I’ve created a simple script to import posts and comments.
http://www.romantika.name/v2/2006/12/19/import-blogger-beta-to-wordpress/
Do check it out and comment…
ireview // December 22, 2006 at 3:03 am |
Hi
I made an importer script for Blogger Beta:
http://www.romantika.name/v2/2006/12/19/import-blogger-beta-to-wordpress/
Tested it with New Blogger as well and it’s still working. Do let me know of what you think
Naffziger’s Net » All your blogs are belong to us // January 9, 2007 at 9:27 am |
[...] I recently helped talk Rahul into switching from Blogger to WordPress. It was a very painful process. In doing so, he discovered that the new Blogger Beta broke all of the existing WordPress import functions. [...]
Kang Kombor // April 4, 2007 at 1:20 am |
Now we can import from New Blogger but not from Old Blogger.
T Jantunen // April 9, 2007 at 5:28 am |
Hi,
I wrote these http://tjantunen.com/2007/03/21/import-blogger-posts-to-wordpress/
simple instructions how to import blogger beta posts to wordpress easily and without using any plugins.
Maximus // December 20, 2007 at 2:48 am |
I would like to see a continuation of the topic
syazone’s blog » Blog Archive » Import from Blogger Beta to Wordpress // June 3, 2008 at 5:30 am |
[...] I did a simple search for “Import from Blogger Beta” I found there were a lot of other people who were also trapped and were praying for a fix, but there was a solution too which I didnt even [...]