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1. sitecreations
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Well, I'd reserved the holiday week to do my long-awaited Wordpress switchover. I have wordpress running beautifully and a theme ready to go. I'd held off on the Blogger Beta switchover, though I'm fearful they're going to force it soon.

   Now, about that years' worth of high-ranking blog content that uses blogger (via FTP.) I don't want to lose my permalinks.

   I've tried just about every tip/script I could find - except those using RSS feeds - and cannot make this work. I get

   "Error on form submission. Retry or reset the importer."

   ...most of the time, but occasionally will get past that... only to find the importer i-frame goes blank after the publish step gets to 100% it's in lala land.

   I've tried changing my highly modified template to a blogger default template - perhaps to give it a better starting point - and no good. I've tried publishing to blogspot, but more errors - and it stripped all of my FTP settings (grr - why can't they just disable them!)

   So here I am, totally out of time and no way to move the blog. It looks like it's going to be another month before I have any time to spend on it. My posts have few comments, and I don't think they are that complex.

   http://www.sitecreations.com/blog is my original blog.

   ... it's hard to tell from the forums which is the 'latest greatest' blogger import method (NON-beta-blogger) but I'd appreciate pointers to it.

   I WILL POST my solution and step by step to this forum once solved.

   I can post a flash screen recording of what's happening if it's helpful to someone.

2. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I don't want to lose my permalinks.

   I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this, but there's no possible way to keep your permalinks on a migration like this. Not usually.

3. Poco
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Well, if you are having import problems with your hosted server you might try importing it to a server running somewhere else (like your PC) and copy the DB to your public server. Some of us couldn't get it working on our public servers due to server config issues. Here is one way to do it...

   http://notions.okuda.ca/wordpress-plugins/from-blogger-to-wordpress/

   Oh, and I imagine keeping your permalinks could be a bit tricky (Maybe some clever use of some mod rewrite rules?). You might want to consider installing your Wordpress blog to a new directory and keep your old blog in place with some clever links back and forth.

4. sitecreations
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Well, I'm trying one thing at a time. I DO have my WP blog installed on a different folder, and plan to 301 permenant redirect those files over.

   So first I just want to get my posts pulled over. I'm starting to resign myself to a manual move. Gosh I'm boggled by the difficulty as this is a rather simple grouping of data (a pretty flat database) we're trying to move over.

   I don't know what you mean Poco - you mean just trying a different Wordpress installation? I have full root access to mine, and it is set up properly so I don't know what setting up a second one would do for me. I've set up 7-8 wordpress installs for others, though this is the first attempt at Blogger import. I read the okuda.ca post, and it looks like a good process if you have trouble with your public host.

   Thanks for messages so far - but please keep them coming ...

5. Poco
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   What I meant is that there can be problems with the Blogger import to your public server if the server is not configured correctly (even if Wordpress works perfectly otherwise). Specifically it requires things like curl to be installed and other server parameters to be correct. My old host was not able to do the Blogger import, and I never figured out why, but doing it to a local server where I could control all the server versions and options and timeouts worked.

   It can't hurt to try (the first few steps of that tutorial) by installing EasyPHP, enable curl, install Wordpress, and run the import (I have a test blog on Blogger that I use for tests like this). Just to see if it works any better. If so, then you might want to do all the steps to copy the DB.

6. sitecreations
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I already have Apache 2.0.59 (Win32) and PHP 4.4.4 running on my local machine. I just need to install MySQL I guess and try it. Time is my problem!

   I'd pay someone to make this happen if someone were in the business, so if there are any firms out there who do this work, I'm happy to hear about them.

7. Poco
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   If you are serious about requiring help then feel free to leave a comment on my site (notions.okuda.ca) or email the contact information there.

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