Title: Obsolete plugin
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Obsolete plugin

 *  Resolved [intcreator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intcreator/)
 * (@intcreator)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/)
 * The “Authorize” link takes me to broken Google support page. See details here:
   [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/196924/authorization-link-broken-when-migrating-from-blogger-to-wordpress](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/196924/authorization-link-broken-when-migrating-from-blogger-to-wordpress)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/blogger-importer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/blogger-importer/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/#post-6409657)
 * We are aware of this. A new version is being worked on.
 *  [mukekaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mukekaton/)
 * (@mukekaton)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/#post-6409773)
 * Thank you Otto. Any estimated time when ?
 *  Plugin Contributor [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/#post-6409836)
 * [@mukekaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mukekaton/): You can download
   the current version still in development from here: [https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/blogger-importer.zip](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/blogger-importer.zip)
 * If you want to run it *on a test site* and tell me about any problems, that would
   be helpful. I do not recommend using this on a live site at present.
 *  [mukekaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mukekaton/)
 * (@mukekaton)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/#post-6409856)
 * [@otto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto/). Thank you so much for updating.
   I already installed latest plugin that you give. But Blogger Importer does not
   appear at Import. Can you check? I attach screenshot here: [http://i.imgur.com/zkGnZmm.png](http://i.imgur.com/zkGnZmm.png)
 * Thank you Otto.
 *  [ghapsis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghapsis/)
 * (@ghapsis)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/#post-6409858)
 * [@mukekaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mukekaton/) Its the first option
   that says Blogger
 *  [ghapsis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghapsis/)
 * (@ghapsis)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/#post-6409859)
 * [@otto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto/) Thanks for the update. Its
   a great plugin!
 * Im trying at this momment to import a big xml (65MB). The first attempt caused
   a PHP Fatal error due to php memory limited to 128MB. I chenged it to 2GB to 
   test it but i think in this size its always a problem.
 * The auth version was better in my opinion also for having the ability to run 
   a second import after a few days with the remaining posts.
 * Thanks again
 *  Plugin Author [Workshopshed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/workshopshed/)
 * (@workshopshed)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/#post-6409861)
 * Hi Ghapsis,
 * > The auth version was better in my opinion also for having the ability to run
   > a second import after a few days with the remaining posts.
 * The importer flags all of the imported post with some meta data, this is used
   to check if the post has already been imported. So that would mean that you should
   be able to re-import without causing duplicates. This function has not changed
   between 0.8 and 0.9 so should still work.
 *  [mukekaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mukekaton/)
 * (@mukekaton)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/#post-6409862)
 * Thank you. But my blog file is more than 50mb. How to import?
 *  Plugin Contributor [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/#post-6409874)
 * > The auth version was better in my opinion
 * Unfortunately, with the change to OAuth 2.0 and the way Google implemented it,
   doing a version using the new OAuth code is not feasible for a plugin on self-
   hosted sites. The reasons are technical, but essentially the process for setting
   up an “App” on Google is complex and developer-centric. Asking users to do these
   steps is a bit much.
 * The XML export and import process is more feasible at this time, and though it
   may be memory heavy, we can work to improve on that and reduce the requirements.
 *  [satune](https://wordpress.org/support/users/satune/)
 * (@satune)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/#post-6409879)
 * I used Blogger Importer 0.9.
 * But it imports image and store in wordpress host. Can you make it same version
   0.6 ?
 * The version 0.6, it only import post from blogger, link image still no change.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/#post-6409883)
 * [@satune](https://wordpress.org/support/users/satune/) No, the importer is designed
   to import the content, images included. Downloading images is intentional. It’s
   meant as a migration tool, and to migrate away from Blogger and onto WordPress,
   the images must be migrated too.
 *  [satune](https://wordpress.org/support/users/satune/)
 * (@satune)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/#post-6409884)
 * Why don’t add button to choose import the content or not ?
    I have about 20.000
   posts from blogger. Image was uploaded to image host, I just want to import same
   link image as blogger, not need store wordpress host.
 *  Plugin Author [Workshopshed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/workshopshed/)
 * (@workshopshed)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/#post-6409885)
 * Hi Satune, the best practice recommendations for plugins is not to ask the user
   questions unless it’s absolutely essential. So it migrates the images rather 
   than leaving them on blogger which would be bad as you could loose them when 
   you shut down that blog.
 * However there is a setting in the code that you can change to skip the import.
 * In the file blogger-importer.php find the row:
 * const IMPORT_IMG = true; // Should we import the images (boolean)
 * and change the value to false;
 *  Plugin Contributor [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/#post-6409887)
 * > Why don’t add button to choose import the content or not ?
 * For the reasons that Workshopshed explained above, but also because of a simple
   fact: This is a migration tool. The goal is to stop using Blogger and switch 
   to using WordPress. Having all your images hosted somewhere else, somewhere that
   you aren’t using anymore, somewhere that might shut down, is not wise. Importing
   your images and getting them into the WordPress system for media management is
   part and parcel of “migration”.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/obsolete-plugin-3/#post-6409889)
 * [@mukekaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mukekaton/) If you could email
   me a copy of your export file, I would find it handy for testing. Making a very
   large Blogger blog file takes a lot of time. 🙂
 * My email is otto at wordpress.org.

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