Migrate from BlogSpot to WordPress [How to]
Posted in Web Hosting, WordPress | By AhTim @ September 29th, 2008
Anyone migrate their blog from BlogSpot to WordPress? I would say it is a terrible experience. My sister has a Chinese life blog. She asked for help and I promised to migrate for her.
The orignal blog is on free BlogSpot. As I suggested, better go for own domain name and web hosting if you are serious blogger. She did and need to migrate all post and comment to new housing.
Migrate BlogSpot to WordPress
I tried to use the Import Blogger function in WordPress manage but failed. It prompt connection error due when accessing to Google HTTPS secure session. Lots of people face the same problem when migrate from BlogSpot (or Blogger.com) to WordPress. I’m using WordPress 2.6.1, not sure other version.
After some research, found a workaround to migrate BlogSpot’s blog.
- Register a free blog at wordpress.com
- Import BlogSpot (Blogger.com) posts and comments using Import Blogger feature.
- Export Blog posts and comments from wordpress.com (as .xml in WXR format)
- In your own WordPress web host, import “WordPress” in WXR format (the exported .xml file)
- Done!
Theorically, it should work perfectly. After ask for author name mapping, all 167 posts migrated successfully. Anyhow, in my case it stop after import 7 comments. I retry a few times but failed too. Categories are migrated correctly too, but not Tags.
My two cents
I consider this is about 70% success migration with comments loss. Anyway, my sister still quite satisfied with the result as long as her posts are there. Hope she pick up and use to WordPress soon. Welcome to the WordPress blogging world! 
For me, it’s really a nightmare to migrate out from BlogSpot. Slow, tedious, imcomplete! Don’t ever use BlogSpot if you are serious blogger. Register a domain name with me and subscribe to Free web hosting if you are just hobby blogger.
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September 29th, 2008 at 5:45 PM
thanks a lot
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September 30th, 2008 at 10:39 AM
Thank you man you are great
walk and i will back with you
September 30th, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Is there a way to also import the images, along with the posts and comments.
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:24 PM
“Import BlogSpot (Blogger.com) posts and comments using Import Blogger feature.”
The import Blogger Feature is wordpress plugin or blogspot feature?
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:32 PM
@Venkat: I’m not sure. You may try out and let us know.
@dev: Is under WordPress > Manage, a wordpress build in feature.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:47 PM
After import my post from blogspot to wordpress, my blogspot will gone or still remain?
October 5th, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Sry wrong word, i mean After import my post from blogspot to wordpress, my blogspot all post will gone or still remain?
October 8th, 2008 at 1:08 AM
can give answer?
October 8th, 2008 at 9:29 AM
@dev: your blogspot posts will still remain after the import.
October 29th, 2008 at 3:04 AM
Hi,
I wrote these http://tjantunen.com/2007/03/21/import-blogger-posts-to-wordpress/
simple instructions how to import blogger beta posts to wordpress easily and without using any plugins.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Is there a way to save the tags from blogspot and import those with comments and posts to wordpress?
November 1st, 2008 at 2:56 PM
@Victor: So far as I know, No way to import tags. But posts, comments, and categories should be ok using my method above.
November 1st, 2008 at 2:56 PM
@Victor: So far as I know, No way to migrate tags. But posts, comments, and categories should be ok using my method above.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:24 PM
hey,Very useful information
I like it,I hope you will give me lot of information
see you next time,good luck
regards
massdog
January 15th, 2009 at 8:21 PM
nice post, thank u
April 17th, 2009 at 10:28 PM
thankz bro
i try it
May 4th, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Hi, just to add something, I found that if your Blogspot posts has embedded videos like Youtube those videos would get missing once they’re exported to WordPress.
Not sure why though.. :/
May 5th, 2009 at 12:50 PM
@annon: As I mentioned, migrate from BlogSpot to WordPress is NOT fully 100% success. You may face some loss, eg:comments, image.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:21 AM
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October 19th, 2009 at 7:17 PM
nice article .. trying to migrate my sisters blog.. hope it will be a successful venture..
September 28th, 2010 at 6:44 PM
Planning to move my Blog from blogspot to WordPress
May 6th, 2011 at 8:01 AM
I used to be a blogger user, but ever since I started to use wordpress, I’m glad that I made the change. WordPress is so much easier.