{"id":123,"date":"2007-01-01T01:59:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T16:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/01\/how-to-move-your-blog-from-blogger-beta-to-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2007-01-01T01:59:39","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T16:59:39","slug":"how-to-move-your-blog-from-blogger-beta-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/01\/how-to-move-your-blog-from-blogger-beta-to-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to move your blog from Blogger Beta to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how I migrated my <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/librariansmatter.blogspot.com\">blogger blog<\/a> from Blogger Beta to WordPress on my own server. Hope it helps you if you are doing the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not included information about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.solostream.com\/2006\/01\/17\/lesson-12-download-and-install-wordpress-on-your-server\/\">how to install WordPress on your server<\/a>. Many hosts have tools for  &#8220;one click&#8221; installation.<\/p>\n<p>Between each step there should be one that says: &#8220;Check, play, fiddle, tweak, check&#8221;. Boring to repeat. Essential to do.<\/p>\n<p>1.DECIDED TEMPLATE<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Looked at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/index.php\">some<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blyberg.net\/\">other<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maisonbisson.com\/blog\/\">liblogarians<\/a> WordPress <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidleeking.com\/\">blogs<\/a> to find formatting and functions to <del>steal<\/del> emulate.<\/li>\n<li>Sketched what I wanted on a bit of paper.<\/li>\n<li>Spent a couple of days trawling through <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/themes.wordpress.net\/\">WordPress themes<\/a> to find one near enough.<\/li>\n<li>Discovered <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/themes.wordpress.net\/columns\/2-columns\/1280\/ilovemusic-10\/\">iLoveMusic.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fiddled with it for about a week on a test database, so that I just had to upload the plugin ready template to my new live installation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2.DECIDED PLUGINS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I searched google, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/\">WordPress support<\/a>  and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Main_Page\">WordPress codex <\/a> to find plugins to do what I wanted. I entered things like &#8220;embed YouTube&#8221; or &#8220;print pages&#8221;, rather than techie terms.<\/li>\n<li>I followed comments on the plugin pages back to blogs that used the plugin, so I could check the plugin in action.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s what I used:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/an-archos.com\/anarchy-media-player\">Anarchy Media Player<\/a>. Allows me to embed YouTube clips in my posts, or a media player to play many different file formats<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/notions.okuda.ca\/wordpress-plugins\/blogger-image-import\/\">Blogger Image Import<\/a> see 5. below.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.g-loaded.eu\/2006\/01\/15\/simple-recent-comments-wordpress-plugin\/\">Simple-Recent-Comments<\/a> WordPress doesn&#8217;t have code to display recent comments, so this does the trick<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wordpress\/spam-karma\/\">Dr Dave&#8217;s Spam Karma<\/a>  A must-have. After using it for 6 months on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/librariesinteract.info\">LINT<\/a>, only 3 spams have got through &#8211; and they seem to be hand entered. We have up to 200 spams stopped per day.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.neato.co.nz\/ultimate-tag-warrior\/\">Ultimate Tag Warrior<\/a> Tags, tag cloud, relevant posts&#8230;and much more than I implemented.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dev.wp-plugins.org\/wiki\/wp-print\">WP-Print<\/a> This one&#8217;s for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/walt.lishost.org\/?p=397\">Walt Crawford<\/a>. Clicking on &#8220;print this post&#8221; strips the crap from your post and produces a short and sweet version ready for printing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3.Posted a message on my old blog that I was fiddling about in case I  accidentally flooded people&#8217;s aggregators.<\/p>\n<p>4. IMPORTED POSTS AND COMMENTS FROM BLOGGER BETA TO WORDPRESS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s the exciting bit !!<\/li>\n<li>The WordPress import doesn&#8217;t work with Blogger Beta, and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webbleyou.com\/2006-09-14-how-to-move-from-blogger-beta-to-wordpress\">workarounds<\/a> are horrendous.<\/li>\n<li>Ady at Romantika.name, who is a coding deity in my book, has written <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.romantika.name\/v2\/2006\/12\/19\/import-blogger-beta-to-wordpress\/\">a script to import blogger beta posts and comments to WordPress<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There are two warnings to go with it:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>i) Use the script while you can, as one small tweak from blogger and it will no longer work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>ii) Remove the script from your server when it is finished,as it is a security risk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>It worked like a dream. The only thing I did differently was to add a footer to the blogger RSS feed so that the imported posts indicated they were from the old version of the blog.<\/li>\n<p>5. IMPORTED IMAGES FROM BLOGGER BETA<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Used Notions&#8217; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/notions.okuda.ca\/wordpress-plugins\/blogger-image-import\/\">Blogger Image Import<\/a>.  This copies the images from the blogger server, loads them locally, then changes the links in the posts to point to the local copy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>6. AFTER THE IMPORT &#8211; WHAT I DID<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Checked and configured all WordPress Options.<\/li>\n<li>Activated plugins and configured.<\/li>\n<li>Changed any formatting from blogger.<\/li>\n<li>Checked that the existing feeds worked OK.<\/li>\n<li>I already had a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.com\">Feedburner<\/a> feed, so I changed the originating feed from my blogger feed to my WordPress one.<\/li>\n<li>Burnt a Feedburner feed for the comments.<\/li>\n<li>Added a &#8220;number of readers&#8221; badge to the side bar &#8211; available from Feedburner.<\/li>\n<li>Followed the instructions at Feedburner to change the header file so that browsers autodiscover the Feedburner feeds, not the existing ones.<\/li>\n<li>Added a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sitemeter.com\/?a=home\">sitemeter<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I decided not to go to  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bloglines.com\">Bloglines<\/a> and claim the feed then mark it as a duplicate of the Feedburner one, but YMMV.<\/li>\n<li>Went to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\">technorati<\/a> and claimed the blog<\/li>\n<li>From the WordPress dashboard, went to Options > Writing to add the ping for technorati to my blog<\/li>\n<li>Found and embedded an appropriate <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/license\/\">Creative Commons license<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Used <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microangelo.us\/\">MicroAngelo<\/a> to create a tiny image to use as the favicon to display in Firefox. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\">The Gimp<\/a> doesn&#8217;t create .ico files.<\/li>\n<li>Created a favicon.ico file on the root directory where the blog was.<\/li>\n<li>Went to any sites where I&#8217;d registered my website and changed it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>7. 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