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« Migrating from Blogger to WordPress
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- I finally made it! I moved techforceone.com from Blogger to WordPress this weekend. Even though this was a long overdue task, I hesitated to move over because I was afraid of losing my posts’ attributes. But after setting up a multi-user blog recently with WordPress MU, I was restless to move the blog over.
Before I explain the process followed, I need to let you know that I originally set up Blogger to publish (ftp) to my site. Now coming to the steps I followed:
1. Back Up at Blogger: I first backed up the blog using the “export blog” link under Blogger’s Dashboard-> Settings. This created a file on my mac in Blogger Atom export format.
2. Pre-installation steps on the Web Server: My webroot directory already had files from Blogger. I logged onto the server and physically moved all the files to a separate folder. The webroot folder is now empty.
3. WordPress Installation: I installed WordPress in the webroot folder. (I used fantastico, but manual installation of WordPress is also easy).
4. Import the blog: Here is where I had an issue. In WordPress Admin Dashboard, under Tools, I clicked on the Import option to point to the XML file I exported in Step 1. But WordPress could not process it. I then went back to Blogger and under Publishing, I made the setting to publish to blogspot.com. (As mentioned earlier, it was orginally pointing to techforceone.com). By making Blogger point to blogspot.com, my blog was made available at techforceone.blogspot.com. I then went back to WordPress admin panel and imported the blog from techforceone.blogspot.com. This time, it smoothly imported all the blogs. I see that the tags did not get imported correctly; may be, this is because Blogger uses Labels and WordPress calls them Tags? I am not sure, but other than this, every thing else went on smoothly.
