Large Blogger xml file import to WordPress

  • Hello All,
    My boss has two Blogger blogs and I suggested he move them to WordPress for more functionality and to have his blog under his main website.

    I thought this would be an easy task, but ran into one roadblock after another. The first one is that his site is hosted on an sftp server for HIPPA compliancy (he is running a medical site), so I’m kinda blocked on some of the normal functions of WordPress. Ex: I have to manually install plugins instead of being able to install them through the dashboard.

    Another issue is I don’t have access to all the WordPress directories, the database or the php.ini file. The company he is hosting his website with doesn’t ‘feel comfortable’ giving me access to all directories under /blog where WordPress is installed.

    He has two Blogger blogs, one is smaller than the other. I was able to import the smaller, 2MB xml file. The other blog exported as an 85MB file and I can’t change the file upload on the php.ini as I don’t have access to that.

    I did come across something online about breaking the file down into smaller, uploadable chunks. Anyone have any experience with this? Is there an easy way to do this?

    Sorry for the long post, I wanted to cover all the information. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Kecia

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  • Moderator Jose Castaneda

    (@jcastaneda)

    THEME COFFEE MONKEY

    Hi!

    I haven’t used it but I do know of several who have used it. Can be found: https://rangerpretzel.com/content/view/20/1/

    Thread Starter SqrlGrl

    (@sqrlgrl)

    Thanks Jose, I’ll give this a try.

    FYI, that site is very old, but that script still works. And this one works, too: https://suhastech.com/wordpress-wxr-xmlfile-splitter-for-mac-os-x/

    This is exactly where I am right now — a large Blogger XML file (44MG) that cannot be imported by the WP Blogger migration tool. It’s too large of a file. Currently, there is nothing in existence (that I know of) that can convert the large Blogger XML file to the WP WXR format. The theory in this case, is to convert to WXR then use a WXR splitter to cut it into smaller pieces and import into WP that way.

    Apparently — though I was unsuccessful at installing Python on MacOSX (install Xcode, multiple libraries etc) — there are Python scripts that can do this conversion.

    I had no luck finding any sort of XML splitter either on Mac OS. I tried to manually cut the Blogger XML file into two pieces by keeping the large header section in both, but that did not work either. The XML file is basically “too big” to examine, so it’s difficult to know “where” and “how” to manually break it into multiple pieces.

    Also, it is the WP Blogger migration tool that is being overwhelmed. I am testing everything locally and have access to increasing the php.ini, which I did to 64M.

    Very frustrating!

    (I did find this paid service, but it only supports Live-to-Live migration. It’s rather unpractical unless you are changing the domain name of your blog. Currently my blog is at blog.domain.com being hosted by Google Blogger. The migration involves keeping it at that subdomain but hosted by WP org instead (1-to-1 mapping of URLs)
    https://cms2cms.com/

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