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Convert Wordpress Blog to Blogspot Blog

2 February 2009 3,807 views 3 Comments

Wordpress bloggers are blessed with lot of useful plugins. Blogspot bloggers are not that lucky yet.

If you need to convert your Wordpress blog to Blogger, BlogSpot blog, you can do that in these simple ways.

For Small Blogs

Wordpress2Blogger web service provides a simple way for this conversion. To get started, login into your Wordpress blog then goto ‘Manage’ or ‘Tools’ tab and look for export option. Using this option download Wordpress WXR export file.

Now upload this file to Wordpress2Blogger online service to make it Blogger compatible. Download the resultant file and upload it into Blogger blog using import feature in Blogger dashboard. Your Wordpress posts should start appearing in Blogger blog. This method is suitable for smaller blogs with export / import files less than 1MB.

For Big Blogs

For big blogs with lots of posts you need a different approach. Its a bit more technical way for Wordpress to Blogger conversion. Checkout Google Blog Converter project. As pointed by Google OpenSource blog “This new Open Source project provides the ability to easily move blog posts and comments from service to service. This initial release provides Python libraries and runnable scripts that convert between the export formats of Blogger, LiveJournal, MovableType, and WordPress.

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3 Comments »

  • John Belling said:

    Great solution, was looking for something like this.

  • Stephany said:

    My Wordpress blog is only 213KB but when I imported it to Blogger, it only gave me 12 out of my 57 blog posts…I don’t know what I did wrong…

  • manik (author) said:

    @Stephany
    have you tried the Google Blog Converter? Here is the link http://code.google.com/p/google-blog-converters-appengine/

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