Posted: Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 at 3:42 am. Filed in Import, WordPress.com.
Tags: Blogger
New Blogger Importer
Don’t call it a beta! This is the fourth version of the Blogger-to-WordPress blog migration tool. Does anyone else remember the original procedure with all of the settings and template changes? Ouch.
Thanks to the magic of Google APIs, the new importer works without modifying your New Blogger blog. If you haven’t upgraded your Blogger account yet, hop to it! Then you can copy your posts, comments and categories from Blogger into WordPress.
For blogs with multiple authors, it lets you assign each author’s posts to anyone registered on your WordPress blog. I put it through many tests and now it’s your turn. If you run into trouble, click the Feedback link in your admin pages and we’ll take a look. Just don’t tell us it’s too hard to use:
You’ll find it in the same old place: go to your dashboard, then click Manage, Import, Blogger. This new Blogger migration tool will also be included in the core WordPress package, most likely version 2.2.
February 6th, 2007 at 4:09 am
Your mustache rules Andy!
February 6th, 2007 at 4:14 am
It’s like V’s face. Really cool.
February 6th, 2007 at 4:23 am
very nice!
i can go back to recommending all my friends move their blogs over here, now.
and yes, that’s a fantastic mustache!
February 6th, 2007 at 4:41 am
Thanks, although I have no blogs besides WordPress
February 6th, 2007 at 4:43 am
Yay! You guys rock! I’ve mentioned that before, but I doubt you get tired of hearing it.
February 6th, 2007 at 4:53 am
Yes! Spread the news between your Blogger fellows…!!
February 6th, 2007 at 5:01 am
Sounds spiffy and swell.
February 6th, 2007 at 5:01 am
now if only we could import from blogsome blogs.
February 6th, 2007 at 5:02 am
Excellent! Thank you for the continued improvements.
February 6th, 2007 at 5:03 am
Anybody using blogger should have long ago moved over to wordpress. Now you make it easier for them. That is great!
February 6th, 2007 at 5:07 am
Too bad Blogger doesn’t have this feature too.
February 6th, 2007 at 5:10 am
Andy! Your moustache is so V!
Remember the Fifth of November!
*runs to inform friends still stuck at Blogger*
February 6th, 2007 at 5:12 am
I have to comment on how much that icon rules. Now you need to change your name to “A for Andy”
February 6th, 2007 at 5:14 am
Wow, you guys weren’t kidding when you told me that you’d have a way to move my old posts over soon… Cool! The formatting looks good, no complaints here. Thanks, WordPress rocks!
February 6th, 2007 at 5:24 am
my wait is over – now *both* my blogs can be WordPress!!
(yeah, lovin’ the ’stache…)
February 6th, 2007 at 5:30 am
Sweet! Any eta on getting this available for us self-hosted WordPress users?
February 6th, 2007 at 5:35 am
Is there a limit to 500 posts that can be imported?
February 6th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Great .. I tried it and it doesn’t import all posts from Blogger. I had 2000+ posts in Blogger but only less than 600 posts were imported to WordPress.
February 6th, 2007 at 6:27 am
oh yes god job
February 6th, 2007 at 6:27 am
Yay! Cool. But I don’t use Blogger anymore!
Oh and love your mustache!
February 6th, 2007 at 7:05 am
You’re even thinking of the guys who want to move from a blog to WP, not just sign up a new one. Thats great…
February 6th, 2007 at 8:09 am
Good Job Andy-V-Vendetta! LOL
February 6th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Excelent! God job.
February 6th, 2007 at 9:02 am
Cool ! How about an importer for over-blog.com ? Many people would make the move if there was an importer available…
February 6th, 2007 at 9:06 am
All right! WP rules! I’ve been waiting on that for years!
TXS! TXS! TXS!
February 6th, 2007 at 9:41 am
That is a fantasic idea, when I migrated from livejournal I had to just leave everything there and start afresh. Not really a bad thing just a new fresh start.
February 6th, 2007 at 10:59 am
C’est drole, mais je n’aimerais pas voir ça près de moi.La moustache comme la moustache, c’est le sourire qui me donne des frissons
February 6th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Thank you very much.
February 6th, 2007 at 11:23 am
Nice.
February 6th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Useful for blogger users
.. Nice Work!
February 6th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Wish something like this had been in place when I first migrated here from Blogger. Back then there wasn’t even a beta transfer tool … I transferred about 120 posts manually. Good to know you’re making things easier for the folks just clueing in to WordPress.
February 6th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Atlast, I can move to wordpress from blogger..
February 6th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
more V mustache props
bloggy switching thing is cool too
February 6th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
wordpress is superior to blogger
… that’s why i started using wordpress.
February 6th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
great but my magic button is dead…it got authorization and just laid there like a dead body. No import. Nothing.
February 6th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
This rocks. I appreciate this special effort from Andy.
February 6th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
thanks for all the jobs guys
regards from deambulando.com
February 6th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
wowwww! million thank from pre+ex-beta blogger.
February 6th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Will it mess up the origional blogger one? I tried this a long time ago and it recoded the old blog. Made me sad.
I would like to move it over to wordpress but it is not worth going through that pain again
February 6th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
That’s just awesome!
Y’all are doing such a great job with WordPress!!! Thank you so much!!!!
Btw, I have to agree… Nice mustache…
February 6th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
This is my first experience. Finding my way through.
February 6th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Can you copy over photos as well?
February 6th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Brilliant. Now there’s no excuse – all my Blogger friends can move over to WordPress.
February 6th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Sweet! I’ve been wanting to import since June but my system mysteriously froze any time I tried. Fingers crossed on this update.
February 6th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
I can’t get it to work. Nothing happens when I hit the “magic button.” I did, however, contact support and formally asked for help. I’m so excited about this – I can’t wait to get it to work! WordPress is so great.
February 6th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Does not work with IE7
February 6th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Ouch I remember how I manually set categories to each and every post…
Can you introduce a multiple categories assigner tool?
February 6th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
kill blogger! long life wordpress
February 6th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Figured it out! I’m not sure what was happening, must have had to do with my cache or cookies or something. I simply used a different browser and it worked beautifully! Posts, comments, images, it all looks fabulous.
Great job – and a million thanks for all your great work!
February 6th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
good job guys,you really work hard for it
February 6th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Good Job…Thats gr8
February 6th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Brilliant – given all the complications of commenting on the new blogger – this will make the move over so much easier.
February 6th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Its very cool. But it dosen’t seem to be working for me. I am on IE 7 and its been authorized it shows me the number of posts and comments and The Magic Button. When I click the magic button nothing happens. However, I do see a javascript error on the page. Line 161, Error: Expected identifier, string or number.
Any clues??
February 6th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Does not work with firefox or safari so I’m still stuck. Poo.
February 6th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
My magic button is broken.
February 6th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Andy, you’ ve achieved a V for Vendetta avatar … i do like it !
^__^
February 6th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
I finally got it moved but I had to use FireFox. Thanks very much guys
February 6th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
That’s cool
Off topic: Cute mustache!
February 6th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
nice picture:)))
February 6th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
I could have used this back in June… Too bad I don’t use Blogger anymore.
February 6th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
It didn’t work for me all morning (PST) in either Firefox or IE, but then it worked fine in the afternoon.
February 6th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Yes, yes, yes! I tried over the weekend and it wouldn’t happen.
February 6th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
so now…
next magic button “make morning coffe”
pleeeaaaseeee
February 7th, 2007 at 2:15 am
Thanks for this! My wife was not able to hop onto WP when she accidentally upgraded her Blogger account.
February 7th, 2007 at 5:59 am
cool
February 7th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
nifty stuff
February 7th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
I love WordPress!
February 7th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Wohoa! Finally! Thanks! ^_^
February 7th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Yes! time to get everyone on the WordPress boat! nice moustache!
February 7th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Now just get cracking on that fabled Blogsome importer and I can die happy. Well, after I import my Blogsome site, that is. Then I’ll die happy.
February 7th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
no excuses for blogger anymore
wordpress all the way!
February 7th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
The import was flawless, and I had no hesitation in announcing the end of my blogspot weblog’s end.
February 7th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
excellent! I now have my old posts! (shiny or cringe-worthy, none were left behind!) thanks guys!
February 8th, 2007 at 12:55 am
I wonder, should I start a blogger blog so I can try this out? I feel like it is the only way for me to really appreciate it. There may be something amiss in my perception here; it happens.
Oh, wait… if I know some blogger bloggers, I could tell them, couldn’t I? Or, maybe I already told them to get their great ideas started here and they didn’t listen to that either. Oh, never mind, I will just watch all the WordPress numbers go up as they eventually catch on to this place!!!
Nothing gets worse here, it just keeps getting better and better. Not hard to notice, actually!!!
Did I forget to say THANK!!!???!!!
–gI wonder, should I start a blogger blog so I can try this out? I feel like it is the only way for me to really appreciate it. There may be something amiss in my perception here; it happens.
Oh, wait… if I know some blogger bloggers, I could tell them, couldn’t I? Or, maybe I already told them to get their great ideas started here and they didn’t listen to that either. Oh, never mind, I will just watch all the WordPress numbers go up as they eventually catch on to this place!!!
Nothing gets worse here, it just keeps getting better and better. Not hard to notice, actually!!!
Did I forget to say thanks!!!???!!!–> THANKS!!
–g
February 8th, 2007 at 12:56 am
(oops, double pasted error-corrected)
–g
February 8th, 2007 at 3:10 am
Great!
I have imported all my posts at Blogger… but not the photos.
February 8th, 2007 at 3:56 am
Nice, but what’s the magic button?
February 8th, 2007 at 5:43 am
your moustash reminds Dali
February 8th, 2007 at 5:44 am
The feedback form is missing today… at least in my admin page.
February 8th, 2007 at 11:38 am
can we put criteria/filter when importing?
coz i don’t want to import everything.
thanks
February 8th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
wonder what blogger will do to you..but hey, its wordpress we’re on right…well done–goig to give it a go..