Importing Blogger Posts into WordPress

WordPress is my new blog platform. No particular reason other than I like the idea of someone other than Google hosting my stuff. It’s simple to use, and it has the features I need.

The real catalyst was that iBlogger, my iPhone blogging app, lets you upload to Blogger, but doesn’t support uploading photos. It supports photo uploads to most other platforms, including WordPress. So I tried it.

My other issue with Blogger was the line breaks and Ecto, my offline blog app on the Mac, weren’t compatible. I had to set some line break setting Blogger for the paragraphs to work right.

I moved my personal blog over to WordPress a week or so ago. It was pretty easy; WordPress has utilities for importing from several different blogs, including Blogger. You click an Authorize button, and *poof!* your blog posts came over.

My personal blog has been working well, so I decided it was time to switch my Tech blog over. Went to the Import utility, click Authorize, and — doh! — error on Blogger. Something about http://wordpress.com not being registered.

I searched all over the support site and didn’t find anything, but finally found a workaround in the WordPress Forums — which I will endorse as a spectacular way to find information about WordPress.

The workaround is:

1. In Blogger, go to your Settings > Basic > Blog Tools > Export Blog.

2. Click on Download Blog. It’ll save as an .xml file.

3. Go to http://blogger2wordpress.appspot.com/ and find the .xml file and click Convert. It’ll save as a WordPress.xml file.

4. In WordPress, go to Tools > Import > WordPress.

5. Find the WordPress version of the .xml file you just converted and click Upload File and Import.

Simple, and it works.