Comments on: The New Ultimate Guide to Migrating from Blogger to WordPress

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:04:19 +0000

@Ethan—I haven’t tried it, but I think so. You might have to switch off the FTP publishing option before you do the import.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:58:22 +0000

Great post and thanks! Will this work for Blogger blogs that have been using their FTP publishing option? I already have a host and have been using Blogger to publish to it…

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By: Omar Jallouli

Omar Jallouli — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:51:15 +0000

When you set a “Custom domain” in “Publishing” settings on Blogger, it will show a redirection warning for all pages, including the homepage. So no need to make the redirection code as it will be invisible.

I did this for my blog http://omarjallouli.com but google still ranks my old blog pages better than the new ones.
(And sorry for the first unfinished comment )

By: Omar Jallouli

Omar Jallouli — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:48:08 +0000

When you set a “Custom domain” in “Publishing” settings on Blogger, it will show

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Bye bye Blogger, hello Wordpress « The Prairiedog Files — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:47:30 +0000

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By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:34:26 +0000

@Sam—Thanks! I’m glad it worked well (mostly). A couple other people have mentioned problems transferring comments and it may be a persistent problem. I’ve heard that you could re-try the import, and WP should skip or delete any duplicate posts, but beyond that I don’t think the problem has been resolved. You could check out the WordPress Support Forums to see if they’ve resolved this or found a workaround yet: http://wordpress.org/support/ Good luck!

By: Sam Welbeck

Sam Welbeck — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:29:20 +0000

Great tutorial – transition was pain less and I have planned to link to this tutorial from my blog as a way fo saying thank you. Only thing which didn’t happen was that comments did not come across. Is there any way of getting the comments to come across too?

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:03:52 +0000

@Mardi— :\ I’ve heard of a couple reports of problems with the importer—I think it’s a problem with WordPress.

Searching the WordPress Support Forums, I see many people having the same problem ( http://wordpress.org/search/import+blogger?forums=1 ). There are some code patches suggested, as well as trying to import your blog to a WordPress.com blog, and then importing your WordPress.com blog to your WordPress.org blog (and deleting the WP.com version).

Hope that helps!