Unable to import blogger

Excuse me, MiddletownMike, as a support forum volunteer who gives up his own free time (just like everyone else here) to attempt to help hundreds of users each day, I don’t appreciate your attitude. In fact, I find your response offensive and immature.

wordpress.com is an entirely separate entity from WordPress(.org). What goes on over there has absolutely nothing to do with what goes on over here. If they make an improvement to the WordPress core over there, and they feel generous, they might roll it into the core over here to be part of a future WordPress upgrade.

Everyone who works on the WordPress(.org) blogging platform is a volunteer, and the blogging platform itself is offered for free. Perhaps you should check your attitude at the door and find out what you can do to help resolve the problem instead of making demands.

Since this particular problem has occurred suddenly for most users, I’m inclined to believe that something changed at Google’s end. So, you can either use the work-around, wait for a fix to be rolled into the WordPress core by the volunteers who develop this free blogging platform, or start pointing your fingers at Google.

Sorry, my response was really directed at MiddletownMike’s “get the problem fixed instead of trying to figure out a ‘work around'” and “call over there and see how they fixed it!”

It wasn’t directed at you in the slightest, and I honestly forgot about your previous response while writing it. I’ve editing the beginning of my response to clarify that.

Something has obviously changed, probably on Google/Blogger’s end, and there has been a fix on WordPress.com, so it seems like it’s probably something relatively straightforward given how quickly they were able to get it fixed.

It’s not as easy as you might think. wordpress.com is actually a heavily customized multisite WordPress system. What they do over there to resolve the issue may not work with WordPress itself. It’s also entirely possible that the problem could be related to how your server configuration handles Google’s new changes. This could certainly be a relatively easy fix for wordpress.com (as they control their own servers), but would require a change to be made by your hosting provider, not WordPress.

is the importer actually part of core? I originally thought so and then realized that it’s actually a separate plugin, albeit one put out by “wordpressdotorg,” but nonetheless requires downloading/installing a plugin

The importers were removed from the core and turned into plugins to reduce bulk. In future releases, they’ll be identified as “core plugins” (plugins developed and supported by the WordPress team) along with a few others.

I was more hoping that by drawing some attention to this, and the fact that it’s been fixed on wordpress.com, that we might catch the eye of someone who is more fluent in this sort of issue to help get it fixed for the .org users.

It looks like the bug hasn’t been officially reported yet. I strongly suggest that you report it to get the attention of the right people. Follow this guide:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Reporting_Bugs

Thank you for your patience, and I apologize for the confusion earlier.

One person I saw uploaded their blogger blog to wordpress.com and then exported THAT and uploaded it to wordpress.org

Yeah, it’s a Texas Two Step, but it seemed to work.

For reference, here’s the ticket: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14566