Today I wanted to walk through the process of migrating an existing site that’s hosted on G’s blogspot (blogger). So, I set-up a quick little test site, and started tinkering. It’s not terribly complicated…nor did I expect it to be…but, I’m just somebody who likes to take tiny trial runs…because, it’s those trials that will make evident any problems that you may encounter along the way.

So, the first step is to go into your Blogger settings and export blog. They explain that this is what’s going on:

Export your blog into the Blogger Atom export format.

So, you end up with an xml file on your drive. The WP gui has changed pretty significantly lately with 2.7…but, in your Admin you will see a Tools section. Beneath that there is an Import option. Select that. You’ll see this:

If you have posts or comments in another system, WordPress can import those into this blog. To get started, choose a system to import from below:

In the case of Blogger it will:

Import posts, comments, and users from a Blogger blog.

There may be a problem with images. I’ll have to take a look at that. Anyway, when you select the Blogger link, you’ll see this:

Import Blogger

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 and an upgraded (New, was Beta) blog hosted on blogspot.com 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.

All right, fine and dandy.
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/05/move-your-blogs-from-blogger-to.html

Here’s a good article on how to handle the 301s in Blogger.
And, a nice over view of the whole process.

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