How to import from an FTP hosted Blogger to WP

  • Resolved loopme

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    14 years, 8 months ago

    The “Import” tool in WP states this:

    To use this importer, you must have a Google account and an upgraded (New, was Beta) blog hosted on blogspot.com or a custom domain (not FTP).

    Uh-oh! I think I have the FTP kind. (Not totally sure as a friend set it up a few years back, but figure that since I can get to it from my FTP program, it is this version).

    Can anyone provide pointers on how to get my old stuff moved over?
    Thanks!!

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  • I just did this yesterday.

    Change your FTP to publish at blogspot.com
    Export your blog
    Go to blogger2wordpress.appspot.com and convert Blogger xml into WordPress xml
    Go to WordPress & import the WordPress xml file

    I went through this today.
    Unfortunately not all my old blog’s comments got transfered across.
    It looks like I lost about 10,000 or more comments. Hard to tell.
    I think the problem may be with the migration tool on Blogger.
    I’m still working on this.

    I can’t use the XML-WPXML translator because my blog is too large with 1408 posts. The translator simply does nothing. I tested it on a small blog and it does work. I have read that it has a 500 post limit – rather small.

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