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Importing Blogger into WordPress

A few years ago I migrated from Blogger to WordPress. It was a messy procedure and I had to spend considerable time cleaning up code fragments after the move.

Now there is good news for those of you thinking about moving from Blogger to WordPress.

If hosting and installing WordPress yourself is too challenging then go to WordPress.com (a hosted version that doesn’t require any technical knowledge) to create your new WordPress blog. To import your Blogger posts into WordPress go to your WordPress (version 2.2 or newer) dashboard and click Manage > Import > Blogger to access the default importer plugin.

Howdy! This importer allows you to import posts and comments from your Blogger account into your WordPress blog. To use this importer, you must have a Google account, an upgraded (New, was Beta) blog, and it must be on blogspot or a custom domain (not FTP). The first thing you need to do is tell Blogger to let WordPress access your account. You will be sent back here after providing authorization.

You click the authorize button to start the process to import all of your posts, comments, categories (Blogger labels) and users. Simple!

Caveat: the Blogger importer script will not import the Blogger images to your WordPress installation.