Bam Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 Is ther any way to "move" my blogger posts to my wordpress install(except manually) which would take days..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TweezerMan Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 There some documentation with links at the WordPress Codex on how to import Blogger posts into WordPress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bam Posted August 18, 2005 Author Share Posted August 18, 2005 ok got the files into my directory where wp resides, I pressed the button for importing and no-go, so what do I do next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 I found a post from a family member, Paul on Converting from Blogger to WordPress 1.5.1 that may help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bam Posted August 18, 2005 Author Share Posted August 18, 2005 hmmmz, nope, tried having the files in my public_html/ dir (where I installed WP) and several "other" locations. All is a no-go, any other way to do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abinidi Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 What kinds of errors are you getting? When you say that it is a "no go", what happens to tell you that it didn't work. In order for us to be much more help, we're going to need to localize the problem. We don't do so well with general "it doesn't work" kinds of problems. We are much better at solving, "I get this specific error: <error message>" kinds of problems. So let us know exactly what you tried, and what error message you got, and we'll see if we can't figure out where you might have gone wrong. Good luck!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bam Posted August 18, 2005 Author Share Posted August 18, 2005 I recieved no error messages, otherwise I could probably do some preliminary debugging. I press the "OK" button after the republish(I verified the files are there) But I check the db and none of the posts are there. I installed wp in my public_html directory, I have placed the files in that directory as per instructions, and the code saya it looks one directory back as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abinidi Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 I'm going off memory here, but I'm wondering if you exported your files from Blogger in the correct format. Maybe you could post the template you used in blogger to export your posts. I'm also wondering if there would be help in the WordPress support forum: http://wordpress.org/support/ Maybe there is somebody there who has more experience with Blogger imports. If, however, they are the ones who resolve this question, you should still post your response over here, so that TCH family members can benefit in the future from what you learn as you fix this. So, if you can, post the template you are using for your blogger exports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bam Posted August 18, 2005 Author Share Posted August 18, 2005 sure I followed this template http://www.skeltoac.com/2005/03/12/from-bl...to-wordpress-2/ and instructions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Maybe the link to the other tutorial can get you going. It has screen captures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abinidi Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Yes, I would suggest following the steps in the tutorial that Bruce suggested. One thing to remember, when you copy and paste the code into the Blogger template, that line has to be one long line, with no breaks. If there are breaks in that line, it won't work correctly. Next, when you are publishing it using Blogger's publish button, what happens? Does it get to 100%? Can you find the files on your TCH server? Where are they located? What is in the files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bam Posted August 19, 2005 Author Share Posted August 19, 2005 got the files, its a small blog, well only 2 years. I see the files in the correct format and I have all the posts in them date time author post comment. The routine for importing them is not doing so, I click ok, and as I said nothing happens no errors no-nada, wierd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bam Posted August 19, 2005 Author Share Posted August 19, 2005 here is the data from one month ><wordpresspost>9/29/2004 07:29:27 AM|||Bam|||<div style="clear:both;"></div>Well I have been lazy lately, actually woirks really busy. Got my laptop...its killer, I am gonna post the benchmarks here soon. Doin' some programs for work kinda fun. Getting a second boxer this next week. Getting a female brendle, gonna breed in a couple of years. My friends(our) site is back up, that is very exciting, thanks again to an old ham radio friend of mine :) Well thats all for now will be writing a little more often, oh do I have a story to tell about what happened on the freeway on the way home from works, involves an idiot two cars a baseball bat and 120mph.<br /><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;"></div>|||109640000774275257|||Lazy Boy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abinidi Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 Hmmm... Your data seems okay, except that it seems to be missing any comments. So you have this data file that seems to be okay (except it is sans comments); what is the exact filename? What directory is it in (in relation to your WordPress installation)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bam Posted August 20, 2005 Author Share Posted August 20, 2005 root directory, but I decided to manually transfer my posts, thank god for a small blog, well right now its small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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