Wordpress Madness

October 14, 2006 10:17 AM

How do I move all the posts from a Blogspot account to my new blog?

My sister has been using a blogspot account for her travel journal. I just got a domain and am hosting it with Dreamhost. I set up Wordpress and my sister is ready to move to the new blog. However, she wants to move all of her old posts on Blogspot to to WP blog.

My question is, can this be done, and if so how?

posted by LoopyG to computers & internet (5 comments total)

On the wordpress.org documentation site...
posted by gleuschk at 10:42 AM on October 14, 2006

If you're at your wp-admin page, there's a tab that says "Import," and then a link that says Blogger. Voila.
posted by danb at 10:56 AM on October 14, 2006

OK, I did that, and it works! Thanks everyone.

But there is one little thing, all of the images that were posted are not showing up on the new blog!

This is the blog. As you can see, it has the image paths, ie http://www.blogspot.....jpg, however they arent showing up, what gives?
posted by LoopyG at 12:19 PM on October 14, 2006

You'll have to reupload your images to a different server and update the urls in your blog links as Blogger doesn't permit photos on their servers to be seen on non-Blogger.com sites

It's not an unreasonable policy as otherwise you would be using their storage capacity and bandwidth and in return, they would be getting nothing out of it.
posted by jamaro at 1:01 PM on October 14, 2006

jamaro, thats what i suspected. Thanks for the clarification!
posted by LoopyG at 1:35 PM on October 15, 2006