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25 January 2007 - 12:24Importing from New Blogger to Wordpress 2.1

I was not able to find a good solution for importing my blogger entries to wordpress, and so made up my own. It works effectively as long as you only have 999 posts or less. :)

  1. In Blogger Settings->Formatting in the “Show” insert your amount of posts.
  2. Change the “Timestamp Format” to “Thursday, January 25, 2007″
  3. Go to the Template tab and choose “Edit HTML”. At the bottom you’ll find a “revert to Classic Template” link. Click it.
  4. Insert the following code into your template:
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <rss version="2.0">
    <channel>
    <title>arthur.wiebe</title>
    <Blogger><!-- Begin .post -->
    <item>
    <BlogItemTitle>
    <title><$BlogItemTitle$></title>
    </BlogItemTitle>
    <description>
    <$BlogItemBody$>
    </description>
    <pubDate><$BlogItemDateTime$></pubDate><!-- End .post -->
    </item>
    </Blogger>
    </channel>
    </rss>
  5. Go to your blog page and download the page HTML.
  6. Open the downloaded file in a plain text editor and remove all the code above <?xml version="1.0"?> line.
  7. Go to wp-admin and choose RSS Import.
  8. Upload the file you downloaded and edited.

And you should have all your posts from blogger!

It worked for me, it’s easy, and I hope it helps someone out there.

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