Andy Skelton’s Modified Blogger Importing Tool
March 24, 2005
*UPDATE - Andy Skelton has removed the Blogger Importing Tool from his blog to make way for the integrated blogger import tool within the WordPress admin control panel. Please refer to that tool as support for this post has been discontinued. Thank you!
This tutorial uses Andy Skelton’s Modified Blogger Importing Tool that imports not just the posts but the comments as well. The first time I tried it, it went smoothly but I didn’t get a chance to do some screenshots. Here is my second try, with screenshots and again, Andy’s script didn’t fail me. Most of the screencaps are from the original tutorial, I just incorporated new screens to show the Blogger settings for Comments and the screens from after running the new importing tool.
Thanks Andy!
Download Andy’s Modified Blogger Importing Tool. Unzip the file on your local drive and upload the file to the wp-admin folder of your WordPress blog. It will overwrite the existing import-blogger.php file but that’s okay, that’s the idea.
Log in to your blogger account and click the blog you would like to import into Wordpress.
Go to SETTINGS, PUBLISHING. Chances are you are publishing on blogspot.com.
Click the ‘Switch to FTP’ link and you will be taken to the FTP menu.
Fill in the different FTP fields with information from your server.
Change the BLOG FILE NAME to wordpress.php. Type your FTP Username and Password and click SAVE SETTINGS.
Go to the SETTINGS, FORMATTING tab.
Change the TIMESTAMP FORMAT from whatever it is set to to this format 9/23/04 11:53:01AM. It should be the first on the drop down list box. Click SAVE SETTINGS.
Go to COMMENTS, COMMENTS TIMESTAMP FORMAT and choose the same format as above - 9/23/04 11:53:01AM. Click SAVE SETTINGS.
Go to the SETTINGS, ARCHIVING tab. Make sure Archive Frequency is set to MONTHLY and rename the archive file to wordpress.php
Go to the TEMPLATE tab and do a backup of your existing blogger template to be on the safe side.
To do that, block and copy your template code and paste it into any word editing program like NOTEPAD or WORDPAD. Save it as a txt or rtf file.
Go to the MODIFIED Wordpress Blogger Import Guide Page at http://myblogdomain/wp-admin/import-blogger.php (myblogdomain would be the url of where you installed your WordPress blog) and copy the import template code as shown below.
Go back to your Blogger Window, under Template and paste the import template code into the now empty box in your blogger screen. Click SAVE TEMPLATE CHANGES.
When you get the SETTINGS WERE SAVED SUCCESSFULLY message, click the REPUBLISH button just below it.
Wait for the YOUR BLOG PUBLISHED SUCCESSFULLY confirmation from your Blogger screen.
Make sure the blogger archive files were successfully imported into your wordpress directory. If you have an FTP client, you can check this by logging into your wordpress folder and looking for the archive files. They should look like this 2004_05_01_wordpress.php . The number of these files should depend on how many months you have archived in your blogger journal.
When that’s done, go back to the Modified Wordpress Blogger Import Guide Page and click the OK button on the THIRD STEP as shown below.
A successful import will take you to this page, confirming the number of posts and comments imported.
Delete the blogger backup files in your WordPress directory as he suggested or keep it there if you can afford the extra disk space and if you want to save it for backup.
Check your blog to view the successfully imported posts AND COMMENTS and give yourself a pat on the back. (Thank Andy, too!)
Congratulations to a successfully imported blog!
Posted in Importing/Upgrading, WordPress
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March 24th, 2005 at 5:13 pm
Thanks for doing this great work! It will help many people and I will add a link from my post for their benefit.
I would like to tell you that since you downloaded it, I have perfected the code and directions even further. It now checks for duplicate comments, so it is safe to run it twice. For that reason, I removed the DELETE button at the end and made the text a little gentler.
Also, you might spend a paragraph educating your readers on the Archive Path field in Blogger’s export tool. I underestimated the number of people who don’t understand that their blogs live in subdirectories.
Great job! You did what I was not motivated to do and I hope you get lots of hits to your site.
Cheers!
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March 25th, 2005 at 7:51 am
Hi Andy! Will update the tutorial with the new version of your script this weekend. Thank you!
March 26th, 2005 at 2:12 pm
Tutorial images have been updated. Thank you again!
March 26th, 2005 at 2:22 pm
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March 26th, 2005 at 4:33 pm
Here is one for you. I followed every and all of your steps to the letter, and I could not get it to work. It would not load from Blogger onto the new site. I checked evrything thrice (I know, famous last words), and evrything at the other end with ftp was fine too. So, I reloaded the blogger settings –including the template, and I was just going to leave the blogger in place until I could figure it. I erased all the settings for the new site on Blogger.
I wrote a short posting, published it and it would not appear on Blogger. So I went to check again, and nothing. After a coulpe of minuted, whaddaya know, I was publishing to the new site but with the old template from Blogger. Damn, I thought. So, I went to erase the old template, filled it with the new one from your instructions, verified all the ftp settings and such, and hit publish. Well,…. Nothing! I can’t get it to load through http://ftp. Sorry, this is so long, but does anyone have any ideas as to what it might be that I am doing wrong?
March 26th, 2005 at 5:03 pm
Hello Kachikel, email me at catsudonATgmail.com and we’ll see what the problem is.
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March 30th, 2005 at 12:48 pm
I am trying to get the migration going but I am stumbling! I followed all the instructions as outlined, and guessed at some of the settings (for instance, the archive path), but it seems that when I hit re-publish, Blogger just keep going on at 0% and does not go up. Eventually I get a time-out error. Can anyone help?
March 30th, 2005 at 9:16 pm
hello ‘the bloke.’ i ran into that same problem when helping Kaqchikel, i tried to publish his blogger posts (with his permission, of course!) to my server and it would just stay at 0% until it times out. i thought it was my server so i created a test blog with test posts (separate from the one i was trying to import) on his blogger account and tried to publish to my server and lo! it published with no problems or issues.
to make a long comment short, i could not figure out what the problem was so i had to give up. i wish i could be of more help but this one really stumped me. i hope there’s somebody out there who has the answer. help?
March 30th, 2005 at 10:36 pm
Hi Catsudon,
I have been at it the entire day! I even tried another method and tried to export everything into one long file (as per Blogger Help on exporting/backup of blog) but to no avail! Blogger reports that they are having server issues the past few days - perhaps it is related to that.
I did notice that Kachikel is up and running with archives from the past couple of month but I don’t have his email address. Can you email him and find out if he found a way out of this?
Thanks!
March 31st, 2005 at 6:01 am
I’ve used the old tool to import my Blogger posts, and have now added more via WordPress. I see that it says that you can import twice, and the comments will only appear once etc. If I reimport the data from Blogger, now that I have added more posts, will just the Blogger posts be overwritten, and the comments that went with them added, and the new posts remain unscathed?
From what I can see, I think that the answer to that is “Yes”, and I know that I just need to make a backup of my WordPress files so I can overwrite if necessary, the reason for asking is that last time it took me most of the afternoon to get things moved across, due to Blogger timing out constantly. I’m prepared to do it again, if I can be reasonably sure that the new posts won’t be affected.
March 31st, 2005 at 12:33 pm
to the bloke: i think kachikel ended up just importing his posts without the comments. i’ll try to email him and maybe he can respond through this post. i’ll keep my fingers crossed for you!
emma, i’m 99.9% certain that the new posts you added via wordpress will not be overwritten by the imported blogger posts. once the importing tool imports the blogger posts, it assigns a different post id number that does not yet exist in your database. so let’s say your last 5 new posts created via wordpress are post id #s 4, 5 and 6. the imported blogger entries will assign numbers after 4, 5, 6 but never those numbers. but, like you said, always make a backup of your wordpress sql dbase file just in case.
March 31st, 2005 at 6:16 pm
Thanks! this rocks guys!
March 31st, 2005 at 7:18 pm
Thanks so much for writing these instructions! I’ve tried using them and I’m having some trouble… I followed all the settings and republished, but I couldn’t get the date_wordpress.php files to show up anywhere on my ftp site. I have successfully managed to publish my entire blogger blog to the new folder on my ftp site, sans blogger formatting - sans all formatting - but nothing will import to my wordpress template/admin section. Any ideas? Thanks again!
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I am having the timeout error as well. I care less about the comments, and more about getting my posts moved over. Is there another tool/method that I can try that will atleast get my posts from blogger to wp?
Thanks
April 6th, 2005 at 10:58 am
I got the files to upload, but only the current month is in the correct format. Any tips?
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April 7th, 2005 at 4:12 pm
Well it worked!! Only hickup was I followed too literally the ‘Archive Path’ and put in the /journal subdirectory - which is not correct for my setup of course.
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April 12th, 2005 at 11:53 am
Howdy:
On my mac, when I try to “save as” on the import-blogger.php file, it saves as an HTML file. Would it work for me to eliminate the “.html” extension when I upload via FTP? Or is there another way to do it?
Thanks,
GN
April 12th, 2005 at 12:37 pm
yes, you can upload it as an html file then rename the file on your server as import-blogger.php.
April 12th, 2005 at 12:46 pm
Thanks Cats! =)
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April 17th, 2005 at 10:30 am
THanks a lot, I followed the process step by step and it really helped. Without any glitches at one go. Thanks a log to you and to Andy for the tutorial and the script.
However there is one small detail that was missing in the ARCHIVES section
you had not mentioned anything about setting the archives url path to where the wordpress is residing on the server.
Go to the SETTINGS, ARCHIVING tab. Make sure Archive Frequency is set to MONTHLY and rename the archive file to wordpress.php
Some might miss that could probably help to mention that.
Thanks again for this detaild explination.
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April 25th, 2005 at 2:33 pm
Hi!
What should I do if I use Blogger just to publish my blog in my own webspace? Thanks!
April 25th, 2005 at 2:42 pm
Alberto, try this:
http://galileo.spaceports.com/~wysardry/remote/blogger.htm
April 27th, 2005 at 2:20 am
dude, followed the instructions, wordpress files appeared in ftp folders, hit import, it went straight to done and nothing was imported. any cluse where I stuffed up?
April 27th, 2005 at 7:12 am
check the archiving date format, check if the imported archive files are in your server, check the the imported archive files are in this format —> 2004_05_01_wordpress.php and try again.
good luck.
April 27th, 2005 at 3:26 pm
cheers will look tonight when I get home and report back.
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May 8th, 2005 at 8:22 pm
I am having the same problem as Grabman. I was able to import my Blogger files to the server. I checked and they are in the right format, but when I try to import the files to wordpress, it immediately says it is done, it does not show that any files are imported though and my blog is blank. Wahhhh.
May 8th, 2005 at 8:51 pm
Nevermind…I got it now and I am so excited.
May 11th, 2005 at 2:26 pm
The file that is included with WordPress doesn’t include all the code necessary to get the comments. So if you follow these instructions, the comments are not imported.
You need to change your template to this:
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in order to import comments.
May 11th, 2005 at 2:55 pm
Hi Paul. Andy Skelton’s modified import script includes all the necessary codes to include the comments. And yes, the one from the WordPress install does not include the comments. Andy has also updated the template line to reflect the comments.
Thanks for the reminder.
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May 13th, 2005 at 10:19 pm
The blogger where i sing on is in spanish and in the Timestamp format not appear the structure indicate, appear somethings but not the indicate, the likeness is 05/01/05 - 05/31/05.
Please i need help…
Thanks
May 14th, 2005 at 3:35 pm
Hi there, folks. Ok, wanting to give WordPress a fair shake, I’ve attempted to import my Blogger posts using the step-by-step instructions. So far, so good. Looks like all the files have migrated, and they certainly appear on my WordPress blog. However… There is something wild going on with the structure. The posts appear to overlap eachother, and even trail into the links section of my page. Here’s the address http://stedfast.net/wordpress, for a good visual reference. Any idea what might have created this issue? I’ve racked my brain looking at tempaltes and such and am at a loss. As for comments, I use an external script-blogKomm, so I just need the permalinks to match. That’s not as much a priority as the whole page layout issue. Thanks for anyone who can lend a hand.
May 14th, 2005 at 8:07 pm
edilberto, i’m not sure i understand what kind of problem you are having. maybe you should refer to the wordpress support forums.
xpurtwitness, could it be the theme you are using that is causing the overlapping? try switching to a different theme and see if the problem remains. it may be good to post your problem at the wordpress support forums for more input.
best of luck to both of you.
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May 15th, 2005 at 11:47 am
Mine doesn’t work
When I check the main folder, I see 2004 and 2005. If I click on them, I can see the name of my posts, but that’s all. The screen import-blogger.php doesn’t show like that to me. It’s just one .txt file. I can’t click on the OK option to import the files. I don’t know what else to do. Could you send me an email helping me?! I would really appreciate it. Thanks a lot!
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May 17th, 2005 at 8:12 pm
Hi… I changed the settings in bloggers and uploaded the files via FTP to the appropriate location (/carbonxiv.com/wordpress), I saw the files (e.g. 1999_01_01_wordpress.php) appearing in the FTP, then I clicked “OK”… It said “The importer is running…
* Importing posts and users
Done”
But nothing was imported to the site… um..
I wonder what happened… or what didn’t happen =(
May 19th, 2005 at 4:55 am
So I’ve done this once with one blog and it didn’t work liek I wanted it too, so I did it again with the same blog, it worked a bit better. Enough so that I can fix stuff myself. But I have another blog that I want to bring over too. The area where I think my troubles lie is in the info to place on the FTP page in Blogger…How to organize the directory..etc.
Should the path lead to the directory, in my case “travel.html”, or should it lead to “wp-admin” or some place else? Thanks for doing this and I hope I can get it right this time!
May 19th, 2005 at 5:15 am
um… double-checked the FTP and saw what I’ve uploaded are “1999_08_01_…_archive.html”… and the “1999″ folders with html files in each of them… instead of php files. I think that’s why I can’t import from Blogger to WP.
But how do I fix that?
May 19th, 2005 at 7:16 am
hi ryan, the path should be in the root directory of your wordpress installation. post here the url of your blog and maybe we can figure out what your path should be. in my tutorial (http://catsutorials.catsudon.org/?p=15)
my blog address was http://www.domain.com/journal and the ARCHIVE PATH I put is public_html/journal.
ana, sorry I am tied up and can’t do intensive assistance other than what I already have posted in this blog. you can also refer to the wordpress support forums to ask for help. they’re pretty knowledgeable people.
hi marz, you’re supposed to put wordpress.php on the settings, archiving tab under ARCHIVE FILENAME. double check all the values that you typed in.
May 19th, 2005 at 7:41 am
heres the url…tried it a few other ways and I still could use a hand
Thanks for the help though and the quick response!
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May 24th, 2005 at 7:52 pm
Hi, i want to post your tutorial in my small linux oriented page, traslate to spanish, can i use the images???? Can i use the tutorial???
thanks
May 25th, 2005 at 8:21 am
Hi Carlos, go ahead, just please credit back to me for the images and the tutorial. Also, post the link here so I can update my tutorial for the Spanish version.
Thank you!
May 25th, 2005 at 8:27 pm
Hi, we decided to use own screenshots, for the spanish text en that, but the translate is finnish and i apreciate the permission.
the tutorial will appear tomorrow late, in http://www.invazores.org
a million thanks and go ahead, man!
May 25th, 2005 at 9:39 pm
Thank you Carlos! I will definitely link your Spanish Tutorial.
Oh and Catsudon is a woman!
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May 31st, 2005 at 6:52 pm
Will this import pictures that are on my blogger blog also?
May 31st, 2005 at 7:30 pm
John, no it doesn’t. You will have to reupload those.
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Thanks! It worked.
June 6th, 2005 at 10:14 am
I’m trying to migrate this blog to WP. I love WP. Anyway, I’m using the script and it silently and happily does nothing. I’m certain my problem is in the publishing setup, which I’ve followed quite literally here. Now that I’ve started the migration, I wouldn’t like to go back! Thanks for your insights.
June 6th, 2005 at 2:02 pm
sorry to follow my own post. I went back and read the comments and made sure that my posts uploaded to the wp directory rather than my public_html/journal directory. Hope that helps someone.
June 11th, 2005 at 3:29 am
It seems that the blog filename and the blog archive filename are the same. Is that correct?
June 12th, 2005 at 6:41 pm
Hi there. You don’t happen to have any ideas on how to successfully import Haloscan comments to Wordpress, do you?
June 15th, 2005 at 1:16 pm
Hilary, I think this should work:
http://www.raving-madness.net/~ravingm/?p=35
June 15th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
I believe so John. This site seems to have quieted down…
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June 18th, 2005 at 5:21 pm
Thanks for the tutorial. I had some trouble with the ftp address. I somehow created a duplicate folder structure on my server under my website address. I couldn’t find the archive files until I noticed the new folder on my system. Somehow the archive files also got backed up as html files. Thankfully cPanel is a very cool and easy to use interface and I managed to sort it all out. A few minor things missing from the import were the time created stamp, three links that were off to the side of my blogger.com page and the name of the poster
June 23rd, 2005 at 9:36 pm
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July 8th, 2005 at 3:23 pm
This didn’t work… I did everything just like you said and now my site is messed up.
http://inthisskin.net
How can I fix it? It’s like none of my templates are working.
July 8th, 2005 at 3:34 pm
Just a question. I’m going to switch FTP to publish my blog*spot into my server but after that i would also like to keep my old blogt again hosted in blogger’s server. Could i do it?
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Redirecting from Blogger to Wordpress
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July 14th, 2005 at 6:19 am
*bows humbley*
Followed exactly, got what I wanted exactly. Just in case, here is the only snag you MAY have that IS documented, but might confuse some people.
Subdomain installation tip:
The “FTP path” and the “Archive path” were the same for me. Here is an example.
If the front page of your blog is this: “you.mywebsite.com/blog”
Your publishing page at blogger should look something like this
ftp server: http://ftp.mywebsite.com
blog url: http://you.mywebsite.com/blog/
ftp path: public_html/you/blog/
note 1: your archive path should be the same as the ftp path
note 2: “public_html” is an example, this would be the folder on your server that contains the “you”(subdomain) folder.
note 3: (don’t forget the trailing forward slash)
Longer example:
you.mywebsite.com/players/player1/blog
blog url: http://you.mywebsite.com/players/player1/blog/
ftp path: public_html/you/players/player1/blog/
DO NOT USE “FTP/HTTP://” in the ftp or archive path
The instructions are clear on how to do this, but I thank you and Andy for creating this, maybe this helps for the subdomainers.
now the template
arigato
July 15th, 2005 at 6:20 am
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July 15th, 2005 at 8:25 pm
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July 17th, 2005 at 10:08 pm
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July 17th, 2005 at 10:23 pm
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July 17th, 2005 at 10:52 pm
Thanks to Andy and you for this great tutorial !
July 20th, 2005 at 5:38 pm
I love your guide. I did everything exactly as outlined. The blog entries were imported fine. The blogger comments however did not get imported. Any ideas?
July 25th, 2005 at 6:42 pm
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July 26th, 2005 at 10:14 am
Excellent tutorial, thank you. I was pretty nervous about it, but it worked like a charm. I need to make sure to think Andy, also
I really only had two notes I thought might be of interest:
1) Some of the screen shots are really fuzzy, and it’s hard to tell what you’re doing (I especially had problems figuring out what was going on with setting up the path to blogs and archives).
2) It might be nice to add some extra notes to that step, for people like me who put their blog in a subdirectory. For example, my ftp server is spawnv.com, and the path to my blog (as far as the server cares) is www/blog/wordpress.
Other than those points (which weren’t hard to figure out, but I’m a little more familiar with this sort of thing than most people), I really think the tutorial’s perfect. Thanks again!
July 26th, 2005 at 6:58 pm
001 java.io.IOException: EOF while reading from control connection
I’ve tried everything I can think of as per the WIKI and Andy Skelton’s Modified Blogger Importing Instructions… I get all the way down the pike, but when I try to republish the Blogger site, it times out with an error message. Any thoughts/ideas on it?
Thanks
Dave
July 27th, 2005 at 6:05 pm
Okay, so I’m closing in on the issue… I’m able to publish to my ftp server from blogger, however when I add the template code from import-blogger.php, I can no longer publish!? The ftp connection is good, but nothing get’s written to the ftp server….
Why would this be?
July 29th, 2005 at 9:47 am
I’ve tried this half a dozen times. Every step seems to work but when I finally hit OK on the Modified Import Blogger script, the importer shows 0 posts parsed, 0 skipped, 0 comments parsed, 0 skipped. If I go to the blogger files on the server, I can view them and see that they do have the blogger content in the new template. Any ideas on why import-blogger won’t pull them over into WordPress? any help is appreciated. Thanks.
August 1st, 2005 at 10:53 am
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August 6th, 2005 at 10:22 pm
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August 16th, 2005 at 9:43 am
Everything seemed to work fine up until the part where I clicked ok for the third step. All of the blogger files and comments were imported into my wordpress directory, however when I click ok nothing happens. It just brings me back to the same page. Does anyone know what could be wrong or how to fix this? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
August 16th, 2005 at 9:45 am
I forgot to add that it looks like just the importer won’t run. Do the imported files need to be in a specific folder or space in that directory?
August 16th, 2005 at 8:56 pm
I’m having the same problem as mistical. I’m working on it but have so far been fruitless. Anyone else run into this?
August 17th, 2005 at 7:19 am
I’m having the same problem, Mistical and Brad. I know I followed the instructions to the letter, but nothing’s happening when I import.
August 17th, 2005 at 8:14 am
Well I got mine to work. Basically it just kept skipping the import part. It didn’t even try. So I opened up import-blogger.php and deleted lines 21-23, then deleted everything after the first tag. So basically it just runs the import and assumes you’ve done everything else.
You can see my modified import-blogger file at:
http://alittlebitleft.com/import-blogger.phps
Use it at your own risk. I don’t want to bung anyone’s stuff up, but nonetheless, if you are running into this frustration as I was, it worked for me.
August 17th, 2005 at 8:15 am
The above post should read:
“then deleted everything after the first tag.”
It grabbed that tag (unspaced) in my comments and took it as HTML. Sorry.
August 17th, 2005 at 8:47 am
hmm I’ve tried the modified import-blogger file that you posted but when I try to use it, it only takes me back to a page with just the script on it and does nothing. Is there something else you did that I might have missed when trying it?
August 17th, 2005 at 10:17 am
Mistical: Make sure that the extension is .php not .phps
I renamed it .phps so that the browser displayed the code for you to see and didn’t actually execute the code itself.
August 17th, 2005 at 12:03 pm
well that seemed to be the problem of why it wasn’t running but I get this message and no posts are imported. any ideas of why?
The importer is running…
* Importing posts and users
Done
Completed Blogger to WordPress import!
Now you can go and log in, have fun!
August 17th, 2005 at 12:14 pm
[...] and comments over to Wordpress. I have just done a trial run using instructions I found on Andy Skelton’s site. It is as awkward as hell but it worked perfectly - I now have posts from 2001-2 [...]
August 17th, 2005 at 12:16 pm
Nevermind I actually figured out what I was doing wrong. Thanks so much for the help the modified script word perfectly!
August 17th, 2005 at 12:28 pm
I was having the same problem and have been trying to figure it out for hours! Your modified script worked fine with the posts but it didn’t import my comments
Is there a way I could fix this?
August 17th, 2005 at 12:35 pm
ditto on the comments, but thanks a ton for getting my posts in there
August 17th, 2005 at 3:05 pm
I modified Brad’s script so the comments would import to, here it is:
http://mistikal.net/import-blogger.phps
August 17th, 2005 at 3:05 pm
Sorry, no help on the comments as I was using haloscan and didn’t have any blogger comments to import. There are some blogger import tutorials out there that I have seen when looking to do my import. Don’t have any links handy, but check WordPress Codex, I think that I saw a link in their “importing blogger” section that dealt with bringing in comments, but that’s about as much as I can tell you. Good luck guys.
August 17th, 2005 at 3:14 pm
haha Brad bet you to it, but that script works for me to import comments so if anyone is having problems with comments that should do the trick!
August 17th, 2005 at 3:23 pm
awesome works well for comments thanks!
August 19th, 2005 at 12:01 pm
I can publish my Blogger files to my site - they’re all sitting there in the right directory - but when I get to the third step and press OK it just blinks and comes back to the blogger-import.php page, not a page confirming import as in the tutorial. I have double-checked everything, gone through the process a number of times. It’s driving me crazy. Any ideas on what’s going wrong?
August 20th, 2005 at 8:34 am
Peter, for some reason I had the same problem, you can try this script which worked for me, I edited it so it just imports posts and comments, skipping the part it gets stuck at
http://mistikal.net/import-blogger.phps
August 20th, 2005 at 7:51 pm
Thanks Mistical!!! the modified script worked great
August 21st, 2005 at 12:46 am
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August 23rd, 2005 at 7:25 am
Thanks a bunch Mistical ! Your script rocks !
I had been searching for an answer to this problem in vain until i found your modified import script.
August 23rd, 2005 at 9:26 pm
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August 23rd, 2005 at 9:27 pm
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August 24th, 2005 at 10:31 pm
I used Andy’s tutorial, got that hang of it and finally exported by posts from blogger to my new host. When I ran the import script, nada, same problem as the other guys, it wasn’t doing anything. Finally used the revised script (sans lines 21-23), viola WP started importing the blogger files. However when it reached 2004_06_01_wordpress.php it stopped. So now I have posts from 2002 until May 2004 imported in wordpress, but nothing else after that. I tried running import-blogger.php again and again, but I get the same results - it stops at the same file. Any idea what’s happening here. Is there a way to put the script in verbose mode so I can see what is happening and where the import failed? Anyone experienced this problem? Help! Been sitting in front of my Mac for 4 hours and couldn’t figure this one out.
August 25th, 2005 at 4:09 am
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August 29th, 2005 at 1:42 am
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August 30th, 2005 at 3:27 am
thanks for this. it really helped.
August 30th, 2005 at 2:39 pm
A few additions… just tried to import it from blogspot. The first time I got a 001 broken pipe error, because the feed tab in Blogger needed attention as well. The second time it was an access error (50something), because I accidently put the archives in a subfolder. Directing everything in the same destination folder worked fine. Nevertheless, comments were still not imported (couldn’t figure that one out) and the archives links didn’t properly work (but that was a WPContentLocale plugin bug).
August 31st, 2005 at 1:36 am
I rechecked the settings at blogger - it’s identical to the howto, but the comments didn’t show up in WP. Where’s the place to look first?
September 1st, 2005 at 9:08 pm
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September 2nd, 2005 at 3:17 am
oh never mind, this helped a lot: http://mistikal.net/import-blogger.phps
September 3rd, 2005 at 11:01 pm
Hello. I’ve been at this for quite some time. I thought I had it all done, but then I noticed that the comments didn’t import. So I tried this updated script:
http://mistikal.net/import-blogger.phps
and at first it looked like it worked, but then I saw that it skipped all the posts because they had already been imported (without the comments). How do I delete them so that I can import them again but with the comments? Thanks a lot.
September 4th, 2005 at 7:52 am
I think I figured out my problem. I’m visiting on my parents’ computer, and they’ve got it configured so that file extensions of known file types are not displayed. So I thought I was using this script but actually I was using the original one that came with WP. Soon I should know if what I did works for me…
Yes, it worked. It’s amazing how such stupid things can cause such problems! Thanks for this amazing tool. Hare Krishna.
Here I am:
oppositerule.naturama.us
September 5th, 2005 at 3:44 pm
Hi, thanks for the superb instructions, I couldn’t have done it without you. A few people have commented that they clicked “ok” and nothing happened.
I’ve worked out why, and posted a solution on Andy’s blog (in the comments). For those who don’t want t wait for a re-release (or to use your excellent workaround script to do part 3), then just find the line right near the top of import-blogger.php that reads:
switch ($action) {
and change it to :
switch ($_GET[”action”]) {
And it’ll work with no fiddling. It’s all down to Wordpress being so ultra secure and hacker resistant.
September 5th, 2005 at 9:10 pm
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September 6th, 2005 at 4:31 am
Sorry, it looks like my comment on skeltoac’s blog has been removed. I guess he doesn’t like people fixing his bugs! It’ll still work though, and I’ve put it on the codex in case anyone wants to wipe out all my hard work.
September 6th, 2005 at 7:37 am
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September 7th, 2005 at 2:52 pm
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September 7th, 2005 at 11:39 pm
hey, thanks for the tutorial. worked like a charm for me. had a moment of anxiety when i couldn’t see the archived files in my ftp directory, but took a leap and hit the “import” button anyway. even though i didn’t see the files at first, apparently there WERE there and got imported to WP with no problem, comments and all.
having a bit of a problem trying to reset my blogger account to accept posts again though. I re-placed the template and also changed the publishing settings in blogger back from ftp to blogspot, but it keeps saying there’s an ftp login error when i try to re-publish the index in blogger. do you know what i have to do? i cleared the ftp username and password, but they keep reappearing.
September 8th, 2005 at 8:59 am
nevermind, i closed firefox and actually tried ie to do the republishing and it worked. must have been a cache issue. thanks again for the awesome tutorial!
September 8th, 2005 at 2:09 pm
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September 9th, 2005 at 9:30 am
Very useful illustrations.
Thanks.
September 9th, 2005 at 10:25 am
Script and instructions worked like a champ for me, thanks!
September 10th, 2005 at 4:42 am
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September 11th, 2005 at 8:38 pm
I followed the instructions to the letter, but I can’t get the files to import. It keeps crashing out at 0% imported? How did some of you others get this to work?
September 11th, 2005 at 8:49 pm
Now I can’t even reset my blog on blogger. It keeps giving me an error and won’t replublish.
004 dk.eos.net.FtpError: Login incorrect.
September 13th, 2005 at 8:52 am
This site was great for a step-by-step importation. Like probably a few others, I couldn’t do this stright off (my current site won’t talk to Blogger) so I ended up creating the archives on a third server to which I also have access, then ftp’ing them onto my computer and then onto the new server. But other than that little roundabout (which is mostly the fault of Blogger itself), the instructions were clear and extremely simple to follow. Thanks a ton!
=-)
September 16th, 2005 at 12:17 am
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September 16th, 2005 at 7:05 pm
awesome, that fixed it for me, thankyou.
September 22nd, 2005 at 6:03 pm
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September 26th, 2005 at 12:14 am
Greetings - great tutorial..
I managed to publish to my new server, all the filenames look right and are in the right place.
When i run the import script, i got
“Importing posts and users
* 2003/10 … Done
* 2003/11 … Done …. etc.
Done”
along with the “Complete”-Message… just a BLINK after i hit OK..
so it checked all archive-files and just sais “done”.. but nothing..
and yes.. all with the right archive template…
help anyone? (and btw: i cannot run .phps-files?)
THANKS
September 26th, 2005 at 12:32 am
Addition:
I used the new script. republished my archive-files with the new archive-template, ran the import-script and got this:
“2003/10 … 0 post(s) parsed, 0 skipped… 0 comment(s) parsed, 0 skipped… Done”
for every month…
suggestions?
September 26th, 2005 at 2:16 am
I’m quite new to blogger, so pls forgive if I ask stupid questions. I recently having problem with publishing to my blog and keep receiving broken pipe message. I can’t even invite new members and change my FTP password. I found this tutorial via google but one thing I don’t understand: why should we import the blog to the wordpress? Can’t we just fix what’s “broken” in the “pipe”?
September 26th, 2005 at 8:21 pm
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September 27th, 2005 at 6:01 am
I followed the instructions, but i couldnt manage to export at all! I only got a file call wordpress.php on my server which only has entries from this week. My previous archives are not transfered at all. What should i do?
September 29th, 2005 at 3:19 pm
Thanks for your help — the transition was smooth thanks to your efforts.
October 3rd, 2005 at 2:08 pm
The link to Andy Skelton’s Modified Blogger Importing Tool dosen’t seem to work anymore. Is it just me…or?
Anyone any help? I would love to move my Blogger to Wordpress… in a simple way
Thanx in advance
October 3rd, 2005 at 7:31 pm
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October 4th, 2005 at 1:53 pm
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October 7th, 2005 at 1:54 am
I get stuck at 7%. The blog replunishes it till 7% and then just keeps going on and on.
I noticed that i did get all my post. However only the latest month comments got transferred and rest commments did not. Pls help.
October 8th, 2005 at 4:55 pm
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October 9th, 2005 at 4:00 pm
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October 11th, 2005 at 3:55 am
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October 11th, 2005 at 12:40 pm
I was able to import everything perfectly. This tutorial worked like a charm!
Thanks so much for it! However, now I have the “blogger” bar the top of all my templates. How do I get rid of that?
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October 12th, 2005 at 1:22 pm
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October 16th, 2005 at 1:46 am
Hi
I’m trying to download the Modified Blogger Importing Tool. I’ve clicked on the link three or four times and nothing is happening, no download dialogue box appears. I do have a pop up blocker and have unchecked it to allow popups so that’s not the problem.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
October 23rd, 2005 at 8:45 am
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October 26th, 2005 at 11:09 am
Hi there,
I found out from Andy’s website that if i click the OK button but nothig happens, it means my files are in the wrong folder. So which folder should I put them in? They’re currently in my public_html folder, but I see a 2005 and 2004 folder in the root directory. Help please?
October 27th, 2005 at 7:23 pm
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October 28th, 2005 at 8:39 pm
I have tried this importer at least a dozen times, ensuring everything is correct every single time that it has done it. Each time has failed to import my comments, regardless of how many resources I read, how many different kind of “modified” blogger-import.php files I use. It copies the posts themselves perfectly fine, but the comments are not copied. I have come to notice that I am not the only user to experience this tedious, time consuming issue, also.
October 29th, 2005 at 2:05 pm
Rockin! Did the job perfectly!
October 29th, 2005 at 4:07 pm
Thanks for the tutorial. I’ve followed it word-for-word, but my template goes bust as soon as I import. Do you know of a fix for this?
November 1st, 2005 at 7:39 am
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November 4th, 2005 at 9:58 am
Blogger wouldn’t/couldn’t republish. Got error message: 004 dk.eos.net.FtpError: Authentication failed, sorry
November 5th, 2005 at 10:45 pm
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November 7th, 2005 at 11:23 am
I am importing blogger posts for a friend at our community blog. First, I tried it using http://ftp. Blogger got to 3% published and didn’t seem to get any further. There was a folder in the blog directory labeled “2005″ and a file labeled 2005_11_01_wordpress.php, but that was it. If I had waited longer, would it have eventually published all the necessary files? It seemed like it was at 3% for a long, long time.
I also tried publishing according to the alternate template on Andy Skelton’s page (which curiously seems to be off-line; I used Google’s cache to view it). This didn’t work either. The import-blogger.php script simply reloaded without importing anything.
Any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong? Should I try to run ftp again and just let it go, no matter how long it seems to be taking?
November 8th, 2005 at 12:47 pm
You should let it run, I am doing mine right now and reading these comments. I was stuck at 17% and figured I would be the jerk and ask why here, but it’s 73% now and it’s been 7 minutes.
let it run untill it times out!
November 8th, 2005 at 9:43 pm
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November 10th, 2005 at 11:52 am
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November 21st, 2005 at 1:07 pm
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November 22nd, 2005 at 4:21 am
Thank you so much! This made it so very simple to import my Blogger blogs to Wordpress - I’d been struggling for over 3 hours and then decided to check out the support forums, where I found a link ot this tutorial!
Bless you!
November 23rd, 2005 at 10:19 am
Hi,
Great instructions! However, I followed them to the letter so far, and Blogger has republished successfully but I can’t find the files in my server. I got it to put them in the public_html/blog path but I can’t find them there. I don’t want to go any further in case I mess it up more…
The only thing I was doubtful about when I did it was my ftp password but I just put my webhost password and it seemed to accept it. I just use the ftp on the site. I’m pretty new to my webhost…
Any suggestions?
Liz
November 23rd, 2005 at 10:28 am
Sorry, forgot some additional comments:
1. I installed Wordpress via Fantastico on my webhost’s server
2. My blogger blog is http://www.dreamingspirals.blogspot.com and it still looks exactly the same as it did before, despite it saying it was republished - I don’t know if this is as it should be…
November 23rd, 2005 at 12:00 pm
Hi, Managed to do it, hurray! Just had to keep republishing. I think the mistake I made was to click ‘republish’ in the page where I had changed the settings (after they were all done) rather than clicking ‘republish entire blog’. When I did this, it worked. The only thing is, I’ve got the photos for about 2 days, but not the ones for the archives - is this what happens? Will I just have to upload those manually?
November 24th, 2005 at 8:03 am
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November 26th, 2005 at 2:03 am
[...] de a direct export option. But thanks to the import script written by Andy Skelton and the explanation given by catsutorials. It really saved a lot of time for me. If I find time I [...]
November 26th, 2005 at 11:38 pm
Thanks, Working on it right now.
November 27th, 2005 at 2:23 pm
I do not host my own BLOG, Blogspot has mine and the one in WP is through their hosting (FREE). Yes, I know I am a very cheap bastard… How do you make this work in WP through their free hosting? I cannot even FTP the script to WP much less execute it. Any help or guidance will be appreciated. You can e-mail me at radu.pisano at gmail.com
Thanks!
November 30th, 2005 at 12:54 am
Hi, i am spanish user of Wordpress and this tutorial has been much useful.
I like to tranlate it to Spanish, can i use your photos and captures of Blogger?
Thks.
November 30th, 2005 at 3:00 am
[...] r Well I seem to have successfully migrated my data over from blogger thanks to this guy and this guy. They’re doing a fine service!! This entry was post [...]
December 1st, 2005 at 2:16 pm
I’ve been trying to get this to work. I have very carefully and precisely followed the direction. I am getting the error:
550 550-Quota exceeded: blogtestwp/2005_12_01_wordpress.php won’t be saved 20714 Kbytes used (101%) - authorized: 20480 Kbblogtestwp/2005_12_01_wordpress.php
I have been trying to get a response from Blogger support on this for five days but to no avail. I just get their automated message replies. Nobody on the bloggersupport group at yahoo knows what is happening. I have tested this with two different web servers for the FTP destination and both have gobs (1GB and 153MB) of free space available. I can FTP to both web servers fine from my computer and do not get errors.
Any idea what is happening and how to fix it?
December 1st, 2005 at 2:18 pm
Oops, I meant to say I’m getting the 550 error when I press the Republish button on blogger.
December 3rd, 2005 at 11:02 pm
Excellent guide, I followed the entire guide, and I must say that this community has really got the best guide around. Thank you very much!
The only part that was quite tricky in the guide was the “ARCHIVING” step, where blogger actually generates the archived post in a sub directory, and not in the wordpress root directory. Actually it was an easy thing to fix, I just copy and paste the files from that sub directory to the wordpress root directory and continued with the THIRD STEP.
Also, another improvement that can be made is indexing the guide above, so that it would be pretty convenient to point to the steps.
Anyway, I migrated my entire blogger content to wordpress without the slightest problem! Thanks!!!
December 6th, 2005 at 6:42 am
[...] 1st challenge is moving my previous posts from Blogger. Fortunately, this has already been covered before.
Another bump is I’ve noticed that my <pre> elements are not displayed properl [...]
December 6th, 2005 at 6:21 pm
[...] ed service. I’ve installed WordPress and have migrated all of my archive over using Catsudon’s tutorial and Andy Skelton’s modified Blogger import tool (which also does comments) [...]
December 7th, 2005 at 7:41 pm
[...] ansfer all the previous data from blogger to wordpress. all the method transer as refer to Andy Skelton’s Modified Blogger Importing Tool . Permalink [...]
December 7th, 2005 at 11:42 pm
[...] dahan’ dari blogger ke wordpress. http://skeltoac.com/2005/03/12/from-blogger-to-wordpress-2/ http://catsutorials.catsudon.org/?p=15 Kalo tahu gini, tentunya saya tidak perlu ber-repot ria mindahin satu per satu (dg copy-paste) ke ‘rum [...]
December 9th, 2005 at 11:05 pm
[...] s a much wider range of template options compared to blogger. I used Andy Skeltion’s tutorial to import my posts from blogger including the comments. It took a little bit of testing and patience [...]
December 10th, 2005 at 2:20 pm
[...] able to republish his posts using a special template that would allow them to be read by a Blogger-to-WP post import utility. He spent some time banging his head against the wall trying to get it [...]
December 11th, 2005 at 8:34 am
[...] ing blogger and thinking of switching to Wordpress, here the tool for you http://catsutorials.catsudon.org/?p=15 After testing for lyanalimkopi , we shall know how good is t [...]
December 14th, 2005 at 1:34 am
thanks for setting this up. I just transfered everything over including the pics and comments and I’m stoked that it worked.
December 16th, 2005 at 5:54 am
[...] time later. Meanwhile, if you guys are planning to do the same, don’t forget to use Andy Skelton’s detail tutorial to make the import. Two days rest at home is making me more lazy. W [...]
December 17th, 2005 at 9:38 am
[...] I was able to import all of my posts from Blogger to here. Well, I had a little help from Catsutorials and it took quite a few trials and errors before I got this far. I’ll have to go thru [...]
December 17th, 2005 at 12:28 pm
[...] - you need to modify the normal template (Template –> Edit Current). There’s a great visual tutorial that has the correct steps using a modified import tool. Setting up pretty permalin [...]
December 18th, 2005 at 4:38 pm
[...] Well, it’s done…sort of. I was able to import 422 posts from my old blog using these directions and the import-blogger.php script provided by WordPress. I see that some of my images did [...]
December 18th, 2005 at 6:49 pm
[...] ?? ??????? ? ???? ?? ???????: Codex Wordpress - Moving to Wordpress Andy Skelton’s (Catsudon’s) Modified Blogger Importing Tool and Visual Tutorial Skeltoac’s [...]
December 19th, 2005 at 4:28 pm
Andy Skelton’s web site, which has the modified blogger.import file that captures comments as well as posts, seems to have disappeared.
Does anyone know of an alternate location for this file?
December 20th, 2005 at 1:47 pm
Sorry for jumping the gun, Andy’s site is back up today.
December 20th, 2005 at 2:53 pm
[...] I was able to import all of my posts from Blogger to here. Well, I had a little help from Catsutorials and it took quite a few trials and errors before I got this far. I’ll have to go thru a [...]
December 20th, 2005 at 6:25 pm
I did it (yay!) but my images aren’t working. They’re hosted by blogger. Any suggestions on how I can get them into wordpress (other than manually)? Thanks for the pictorial, by the way - it was very helpful.
December 22nd, 2005 at 11:46 pm
[...] « blog Blogger Import Wahahahahahaha ) I did it thanks to catsudon for his/her (but i think its her ) graphic step by step tutorial in blogger import but got a [...]
December 27th, 2005 at 7:07 am
[...] reload, listen, reload, listen and reload and listen. hee hee I love it! I manage to find this tools for migrating your Blogger to Wordpress but need you to do the exporting. Maybe we can do it to [...]
December 27th, 2005 at 7:56 am
Many, many thanks for the script. I would like to register that it works fine with the strange Blogger format of blogger.com.br (or blogger.globo.com), where the original import script doesn’t even give an error message.
The import process from the blogger.com.br format is slightly painful, but it kind of works. You have to rename the original archive names, and you end up with imported posts that have all “” as title, because the original blogger post didn’t have a subject tag. But it works.
I’m very, very grateful. Happy New Year!
December 28th, 2005 at 3:59 pm
[...] There are more but one thing worth nothing is the built-in import feature for Blogger, Movable Type, RSS and Textpattern. I hope those who just recently utilised my tutorial on Andy Skelton’s Blogger import tool weren’t too disappointed to find out that release 2.0 could have made their lives a whole lot easier. [...]
January 1st, 2006 at 3:04 am
[...] El proceso de migración ha sido más problemático de lo esperado. Se supone que es posible hacer una exportación de la bitácora completa desde Blogger. Sin embargo, la exportación fallaba siempre antes de finalizar. Eso quiere decir que tuvimos que copiar las entradas una a una y, lo que es peor, perder los comentarios por el camino. [...]
January 5th, 2006 at 8:00 am
[...] Anyway, I can not believe how freaking easy and painless it was to do this! Years ago when I started blogging, it took days - if not weeks - to get a blog set up! I mean, it was hard work! This felt so anti-climatic, but I’m not complaining. I am using Verve hosting where I bought the domain name and the hosting options, then I used Fantastico to install WordPress. After that I went to the template galleries and found one I liked until I can get my layout finished and uploaded. From there I used Andy Skelton’s import tool to import all my Blogger posts and comments. and that was pretty much it. I don’t think it took more than an hour total for all of that. Sweet! So now I have to configure WP - I think you have to register to leave comments, but I’d like to make it so that anyone can comment. I just want to thwart the spammers, so until I research all that, I’m leaving it. Sorry if it’s a pain! Next on the list is setting up categories. Fun! [...]
January 6th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
[...] Backing Up Blogger Options - this fully automates all the hard part that most of us went through logging into Blogger and changing all the publishing, timestamp, formatting and template settings within Blogger. [...]
January 7th, 2006 at 3:04 am
[...] Shifting all the posts with comments from Blogger has been a little pain since Blogger doesn’t provide a direct export option. But thanks to the import script written by Andy Skelton and the explanation given by catsutorials. It really saved a lot of time for me. If I find time I will write a small explanation with screenshots to help people who want to use this script. [...]
January 9th, 2006 at 10:05 pm
[...] You can find the import script at http://www.skeltoac.com/2005/03/12/from-blogger-to-wordpress-2/ and the illustrated instructions can be found at http://catsutorials.catsudon.org/?p=15 [...]
January 10th, 2006 at 2:15 am
Hi, I get the following error message while doing the import:
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'user_nickname' in 'field list']
INSERT INTO wp_users ( user_login, user_pass, user_nickname, user_email, user_url, user_ip, user_domain, user_browser, user_registered, user_level, user_idmode ) VALUES ( ‘Greg’, ‘password’, ‘Greg’, ‘user@wordpress.org’, ”, ‘127.0.0.1′, ‘localhost’, ’server’, ‘1979-06-06 00:41:00′, ‘1′, ‘nickname’ )
: Registered user Greg
Anyone know why? I started a support thread here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/55755
Thanks.
January 10th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Greg, I ran into the same problem. However, there is a fix listed on Andy Skelton’s page by Elton Wilson in the comment section (about 5th from bottom). Anyway, you have to edit the import-blogger.php script at line 82 so that the INSERT command reads as follows:
INSERT INTO $wpdb->users (
user_login,
user_pass,
user_nicename,
user_email,
user_url,
user_registered
) VALUES (
‘$user_login’,
‘$pass1′,
‘$user_nickname’,
‘$user_email’,
‘$user_url’,
‘$user_joindate’
)”);
Here’s the link to Andy’s page: http://www.skeltoac.com/2005/03/12/from-blogger-to-wordpress-2/
The above worked for me
Good luck.
January 10th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
Giles:
Thanks alot! That worked like a champ. Everything seems to be running very smooth now.
Cheers.
-Greg
January 10th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
[...] The script I used was the one on the codex. I also had help from Skelton’s site and Justinsomniac’s site. Hopefully all is figured out. I think I got my feed correct. I’m so glad I’m with feedburner, because it was easy to simply replace the originating atom feed with this new rss feed and leave the url to the feedburner rss feed untouched. [...]
January 11th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
[...] http://catsutorials.catsudon.org/?p=15 [...]
January 13th, 2006 at 5:45 am
The comments got imported, but the comment count didn’t increase. The blog shows “0 Comments” for all posts, even though there are comments for that post.
Any idea how I can solve this?
Thanks.
January 14th, 2006 at 10:22 am
[...] ? ??? ????? ?? ??? ??????? [...]
January 17th, 2006 at 11:02 am
I hate to glom onto the “it doesn’t work for me crowd” but you do what you gotta do.
I went the alternate route and published back to blog*spot with the alternate template, right clicked on about 50 files and saved them, ftp them to my blog directory, ran the third part, and it says I passed and go ahead and log in, but nothing was done. One line, “Importing posts and users - Done ”
So, I’m running my own Win2003 IIS6 server. I have three sites on one drive. Site A) is called Default, site B) is another non-blog site and site C) is the blog, we’ll call it Blog. All the wordpress and archived files are in there.
So, I have a really boring site right now, but I don’t want to make any changes until this script runs correctly. Any help would be great, I’m on AIM (xadrian calim) or at this email on gtalkr
January 22nd, 2006 at 10:14 am
[...] Wordpress comes with a Import from blogger script that does the importing work, but before I could run that I needed to do various things, which are well documented with pictures here. Also check out this for the steps (without pictures) or this if you’re importing from other than Blogger. [...]
January 26th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Awesome tutorial!
Still I’m nervous of this process… Don’t have a host yet.
=0$
February 2nd, 2006 at 9:26 am
[...] Edit: I think I found something for importing Blogger into Wordpress It looks very daunting, so I will try to read it through later. I still would like to hear if there is something easier or if this is the route I have to go. Thanks!! [...]
February 2nd, 2006 at 11:59 pm
[...] Blogspot solved! Yesterday I was whining about the no-feed land of Blogspot comments. I did some digging, and it turns out that Andy Skelton has created a tool that will let you import all of your blogger data into WordPress. So, the capability is there. [...]
February 12th, 2006 at 3:36 am
[...] ? Andy Skelton?s Modified Blogger Importing Tool [...]
April 12th, 2006 at 6:54 am
[...] Andy Skelton s Modified Blogger Importing ToolThis tutorial uses Andy Skelton s Modified Blogger Importing Tool that imports not just the posts but the comments as well. The first time I tried it, it went smoothly but I didn t get a [...]
April 16th, 2006 at 12:56 am
[...] Andy Skelton’s (Catsudon’s) Modified Blogger Importing Tool and Visual Tutorial (http://catsutorials.catsudon.org/?p=15) [...]
April 17th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Good day Cat. I recently posted the following topic in the wordpress.org forum. I used the import tool but found that the Blogger code for alignment wasn’t imported into WP when I used the import tool. I’ve posted on Andy’s import blogger page asking his for any suggestions as well.
The method I used to upload images into many of my posts was the blogger image upload tool. More details can be found here:
blogger import image alignment
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/68049?replies=13
Any suggestions/input is greatly appreciated. Have a splendid.
April 18th, 2006 at 4:59 am
Thank you very much Andy
April 20th, 2006 at 5:53 am
Where is your file .zip
April 21st, 2006 at 3:39 pm
[...] But ignoring that for a minute, my biggest concern was that I’d be able to move all my old Blogspot posts and comments over to Wordpress. I have just done a trial run using instructions I found on Andy Skelton’s site. It is as awkward as hell but it worked perfectly - I now have posts from 2001-2005 residing on my Fedora box at home after 30 minutes of fiddling. [...]
May 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
[...] Andy Skelton’s Modified Blogger Importing Tool and Tutorial [...]
May 15th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
[...] ” Andy Skelton’s Modified Blogger Importing Tool … This tutorial uses Andy Skelton’s Modified Blogger Importing Tool that imports not just the posts but the … for Comments and the screens from after running the new importing tool … [...]
June 29th, 2006 at 5:00 am
[...] ??????????? ????????? ?? ???? ??????? ? ???? ?? ???????: Codex Wordpress - Moving to Wordpress Andy Skelton’s (Catsudon’s) Modified Blogger Importing Tool and Visual Tutorial Skeltoac’s hacked script for importing blogger comments along with your posts [...]
July 15th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
[...] In between waiting for my development server to redeploy and restart (anyone that has worked with me knows how long that can take), I’ve been playing around with the migration from Blogger to WordPress. I found a nice tutorial with some updates to the standard import. It works by having you modify your blog entry template and set up your blog to deploy to your wordpress installation. It had problems about halfway through the deploy transferring with sftp, so I switched it to normal ftp and it went through fine. There’s a few little things I’m probably going to change before the final move, but you can look at the results at zibblog.com. The biggest problem is that blogger has some nice support for uploading images. However, all my images are now on their server and I need to figure out some way to slurp them down and rewrite the links. I may just need to write some php or something since that is what the wordpress importer is written in. [...]
August 8th, 2006 at 12:58 am
How can I move my blogspot to blogsome, not wordpress? blogsome is powered by wordpress, right?? pls help! thanks
August 8th, 2006 at 8:10 am
Hello Roxine. I believe Blogsome uses WordPress but I doubt they have the import plugins activated within your Admin panel. You will have to contact support at Blogsome to find out if they allow you to import blogs from other platforms. Otherwise, you will need to import them manually.
If you decide to just create your own WordPress install, the latest version automates the import process from Blogspot (and other platforms) very easily. You can view the tutorial I created here.
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:15 am
Hi!
I´ve imported all my posts from blogger to wordpress in the original way. It worked fine, but my text is filled up with weird characteres… Could you please help me?
Another question: i was using haloscan comments on my Blogger blog. Is there a way to import it to Wordpress?
August 24th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
What weird characters were you getting?
As for importing Haloscan comments, you can refer to this tutorial:
http://justinsomnia.org/2005/06/importing-haloscan-comments-into-wordpress/
October 11th, 2006 at 7:50 am
[...] Catsudon’s guide to Andy Skelton’s Blogger importing tool: Quickly fleshed out my WordPress site with plenty of XHTML-invalid posts from my old Blogger site [...]
October 31st, 2006 at 5:10 pm
[...] Para la migraci?n de Blogger a mi copia local de WordPress us? la herramienta desarrollada por Andy Skelton y el correspondiente tutorial en Catsutorials. Bastante f?cil de ejecutar y al cabo de 20 minutos (15 de los cuales se los gast? Blogger re-publicando el Blog) ten?a ya mis notas anteriores en mi copia local de Ba?l de ideas. [...]
February 10th, 2007 at 12:01 am
[...] http://catsutorials.catsudon.org/?p=15 [...]
February 11th, 2007 at 10:25 am
[...] My love with Blogger is over finally
I have been planning for move to WordPress for a long time. I have been stopped since I did’t want to carry the pain in my butt with all the manual stuff involved in it previously. [...]
February 24th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
[...] Over the weekend I finally managed to take the plunge and get my domain hosted. As of now the Utills.com has a place on the net, but so far I’ve kept it to forward the URL to this present location. However, I have installed Wordpress 1.5 on the server and configured it so that all my previous posts written here (except the very latest ones) have been imported with comments over to the new site. I used a brilliant script by Andy Skelton to import all of the files across along with a screenshot based tutorial written by Catsudon. [...]
June 30th, 2007 at 4:43 am
Hi there
Don’t know if these instructions still work for blogger beta, but I think they should, as I am still using a template to publish, not the “layout” on blogger. I’m moving to wordpress but I need to know if this method successfully imports links from each post? ie my blog is also a podcast, with links to mp3 files in some posts. Will this way of importing blogs to wordpress work in successfully importing these links as enclosures or at least targeted files?
Thanks
Dermod
June 30th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Hi Dermod, as this tutorial was created for a plugin prior to the import feature now available in WordPress 2.++, I cannot guarantee that it will work seamlessly with the latest versions of either blogging application. I suggest you do a test import on a test blog using the latest WordPress version and keep your fingers crossed. Don’t forget to back up everything before doing so.
June 30th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
thanks very much - but did it work by bringing in enclosures before?
July 1st, 2007 at 6:47 am
Actually, scrub that - Andy has removed his tool from his site!
July 5th, 2007 at 5:06 am
[...] standalone Wordpress installations: Andy Skelton’s Modified Blogger Importer Tool which is a couple of years old now, seemed promising, but the tool has been deleted from [...]
August 21st, 2007 at 8:53 am
[...] to Wordpress installed on the account. (WordPress has many more features.) I used a tutorial from here and everything seemed to work [...]
October 19th, 2007 at 8:58 am
[...] Something I would really like to do is preserve my posts and comments of my Blogspot blog. I found a good tutorial for it here. [...]
January 9th, 2008 at 4:53 am
where is : Modified Blogger Importing Tool t SCRIPT????
where is ZIP file????
I couldnt find SCRIPT
NOTHING HERE!!!!
http://skeltoac.com/2005/03/12/from-blogger-to-wordpress-2/trackback/
January 21st, 2008 at 11:43 am
[...] main bottleneck. I used Skeltoac’s hacked script and followed his explanations along with the visual tutorial proposed by Catsudon. However, things went wrong time and [...]
March 29th, 2008 at 8:02 am
[...] techniques based on others. I have ported all my Blogger entries and comments by, following a well-documented tutorial. Join me there, won’t [...]
April 4th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Hi, have read this with great interest, as I’m about to try to import my archives from Blogger to WordPress. However, I have read in several places that it doesn’t work if you publish your blog to your own domain via FTP, which is what I’ve been doing for the last couple of years. Is this true?
Also, the instructions for importing Haloscan are for an older version of WordPress than I’m using. I’m using 2.5 but these are good only for up to 2.3. Are the instructions still valid?
Thanks! And keep up the good work …
May 8th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
[...] I did some digging, and it turns out that Andy Skelton has created a tool that will let you import all of your blogger data into WordPress. So, the capability is [...]
November 13th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
[...] This link has some info. [...]
February 4th, 2009 at 6:52 am
[...] Catsudon’s guide to Andy Skelton’s Blogger importing tool: Quickly fleshed out my WordPress site with plenty of XHTML-invalid posts from my old Blogger site [...]
August 10th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
[...] Andy Skelton’s Modified Blogger Importing Tool [...]
October 28th, 2009 at 4:59 am
[...] following the instructions from Catsutorials I was able to import the few posts I had from Blogger. It would support comments, but nobody ever [...]
December 7th, 2009 at 7:42 am
[...] Biraz zor olabilir, zaten yazar da belirtmi?. E?er ekran görüntüleriyle isterseniz; Catsudon’s tutorial. Haloscan yorumlar? ile birlikte Blogger daki blogunuzu WordPress’e aktarmak için bilgi: [...]