Import from Blogger

zeebie
(@zeebie)

16 years, 8 months ago

Hi, I just installed wp 2.2 and as instructed went to manage and began importing my blog. I ran into a block though when I I was directed to google to authorize access. I clicked on grant access on the google webpage and when I was directed back to wordpress I got a message saying:

Trouble signing in

We were not able to gain access to your account. Try starting over.

Restart

We have saved some information about your Blogger account in your WordPress database. Clearing this information will allow you to start over. Restarting will not affect any posts you have already imported. If you attempt to re-import a blog, duplicate posts and comments will be skipped.

Any ideas? Thanks,
Z.

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Andy Skelton
(@andy)

16 years, 8 months ago

Google recently changed their API. To fix the WordPress 2.2 Blogger Importer, search wp-admin/import/blogger.php for

www2.blogger.com

around line 84 and replace it with

www.blogger.com

A patch has been uploaded for WordPress 2.3:
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4847

Thread Starter zeebie
(@zeebie)

16 years, 8 months ago

I requested how to accomplish your comments at bluehost, here’s their response:

Tom [17:12]: We don’t support that, you’ll just have to find the patch and upload. You need to also retrieve the installation instructions.

So I’ll need a patch and instructions on uploading it. I had them install word press 2.2 and I don’t see an option to install 2.3

Thanks,
Z.

Chris_K
(@handysolo)

16 years, 8 months ago

Why don’t you just edit blogger.php and make the 1 character edit? Andy told you where the file is and what to change…

Thread Starter zeebie
(@zeebie)

16 years, 8 months ago

Sorry, I am new to this. Can you give me some detailed instructions please. Do I access this through the c-panel for bluehost? I did not perform the install, they did so I don’t have the wordpress files on my computer.
Thanks,
Z.

Thread Starter zeebie
(@zeebie)

16 years, 8 months ago

k- wait I’m accessing the blogger.php file with ftp and will edit. I’ll post how it goes,
Thanks,
Z.

Chris_K
(@handysolo)

16 years, 8 months ago

k- wait I’m accessing the blogger.php file with ftp and will edit

🙂 There ya go.

siggia
(@siggia)

16 years, 8 months ago

I tried the method Andy mentioned, about changing the line, but to no avail. I noticed another line with ‘ww2’ and changed that as well, just for the hell of it, but now I get a new error message:

There was a problem opening a connection to Blogger. This is what went wrong:

(536903679)

I’m using WP 2.2.1

Any new magic tricks I might try?

ucla74
(@ucla74)

16 years, 8 months ago

This is now working, but only if you import to a wordpress.com blog. To get your posts & comments to a self-hosted blog, you need to then export to an XML file, then re-import from your self-hosted blog. A bit of a kludgy workaround, but it worked great for me.

See http://wordpress.org/support/topic/131523#post-608520

ucla74
(@ucla74)

16 years, 8 months ago

ucla74
(@ucla74)

16 years, 8 months ago

*sigh* I suck at teh intraweb. I looked for and couldn’t see the “Edit Post>>” button. 🙁

Ravi
(@ravidreams)

16 years, 8 months ago

siggia – i just changed one line like andy told and it worked.

ucla74 – it worked for me in self-hosted blog

Thread Starter zeebie
(@zeebie)

16 years, 8 months ago

Works!

I edited this file wp-admin/import/blogger.php

as noted above.
Thanks,
Z.

katiemarie
(@katiemarie)

16 years, 8 months ago

Thank you Andy! It worked for me also!

dirtbikemom2007
(@dirtbikemom2007)

16 years, 8 months ago

Awesome! I’ve been trying to do this since yesterday. I edited wp-admin/import/blogger.php changing www2.blogger to http://www.blogger and I just got everything to import.

And I’m using self-hosted WordPress

Thanks SO much!

chrisjacobson
(@chrisjacobson)

16 years, 8 months ago

Editing blogger.php worked! Thanks a lot!!