Need Help with Blogger to Wordpress Import
Monday, October 16th, 2006;
-- Andy Beal |
I don’t normally ask you for help, but I figured you may be able to assist me with problem.
I’m trying to transfer a blog from Blogger to Wordpress but I’m having problems with matching the truncation Blogger uses for the post page names. Blogger removes stop-words and also has a different character length to Wordpress.
If anyone knows of a plugin or has written a script that can handle this, please contact me - consulting AT marketingpilgrim.
Thanks!
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October 16th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Andy - if you haven’t already, you might want to check out the Wordpress forums on the topic of migration. There’s a lot of very talented folks there.
October 16th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
Thanks - Trying all options right now.
October 16th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
Have you checked out the page my name links to? It should have the info to help you
October 16th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Sound like an opportunity for some tradeout
Welcome to the wordpress crowd, Andy!
October 16th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
I followed this directions and it worked like a charm (that’s if you’re using WP 1.5; WP 2 has a better import feature); it’s using a rewrite rule to match blogger urls with wordpress permalinks.
October 17th, 2006 at 10:05 am
Thanks guys. I’ve looked at those and they appear to work mostly with 1.5. The import is not the problem - that is done - it’s matching the page names from Blogger to Wordpress without using a mod rewrite.
October 17th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
Sounds like a job for a PHP/DB guy. He/she should be able to write a little code that does a one-time rewrite of the URLs in the MySQL DB to match your current URL structure.
Then, any new URLs/pages added will just take the form of the Wordpress URL structure you use.
Want me to see if my guys can do it? Shouldn’t be but a few hours or less worth of work.
Thanks
Brian
October 17th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Andy, you have great timing. I just wrote the blog post on the topic: Maintain permalinks moving from Blogger to WordPress. You should have no problem following my instructions, but if you’d like some assistance, I’d be happy to help.