Blogger beta breaks WordPress.com import
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.
Doh!
Comment by Matt — August 24, 2006 @ 9:09 pm
Well there you have it, a Doh from the Big Guy himself! The fix is forthcoming.
Comment by bobmorris — August 25, 2006 @ 7:16 am
Thanks Bob and Matt,
I’m looking forward to making the switchover.
Comment by netherworld — August 25, 2006 @ 12:12 pm
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…
Comment by Jon — August 28, 2006 @ 11:14 am
[...] 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. [...]
Pingback by WebbleYou WordPress Hosting : Blog Archive : How to Move from Blogger Beta to WordPress — September 13, 2006 @ 11:55 pm
14 days later, no official change yet.
Am in the same position as Jon (post #4).
Please work urgently on the import function!!!!
Comment by chrizzzs — September 28, 2006 @ 10:05 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 :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. [...]
Pingback by Anything, but not Everything — October 14, 2006 @ 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 . 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. [...]
Pingback by Anything, but not Everything — October 14, 2006 @ 9:40 pm
I’m in the same bind. Installed WP, registered my domain name, no import available …
Comment by Rob — October 16, 2006 @ 10:43 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
Comment by agirl001001 — December 1, 2006 @ 4:37 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. [...]
Pingback by || syazone tech || » Import from Blogger Beta to Wordpress — December 8, 2006 @ 3:06 am
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…
Comment by Ady — December 21, 2006 @ 3:31 pm
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
Comment by ireview — December 22, 2006 @ 3:03 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. [...]
Pingback by Naffziger’s Net » All your blogs are belong to us — January 9, 2007 @ 9:27 am
Now we can import from New Blogger but not from Old Blogger.
Comment by Kang Kombor — April 4, 2007 @ 1:20 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.
Comment by T Jantunen — April 9, 2007 @ 5:28 am
I would like to see a continuation of the topic
Comment by Maximus — December 20, 2007 @ 2:48 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 [...]
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