How to import your blogger posts, comments, users from blogspot to wordpress

by Harsh Agrawal on April 21, 2009

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Many of users who move from BlogSpot to wordpress, they prefer to migrate their blogspot posts to wordpress. The process of migrating your posts, comments and users are easy.

By using blogger export and wordpress import feature you can easily migrate your posts from BlogSpot to wordpress.

Do remember this is the second post in the series of moving from blogspot to wordpress. If you have missed how to install self hosted wordpress blog, then do read it.

In this post I’m not taking about 301 perma redirection. Which I will cover in the next post. If you don’t want to miss it, do subscribe to shoutmeloud feeds.

FYI : 301 perma redirection tell search engine that the website is moved to new place and all your traffic will be redirected to new domain.

This post will help you to understand how to move your posts and comments from blogspot to self hosted wordpress blog.

Don’t migrate your post without 301 perma redirection, else you will end up creating duplicate posts of your own blog.

Simply login to your Wordpress dashboard and click on tools > Import

Now in the next options screen select > Blogger

You should be logged into your blogspot account and it will automatically detect all your blogspot blogs under your account.

Select the blog from which you wish to transfer your posts.

Now it will ask for the authorization, authorize the access of wordpress on your blogspot account and it will start importing all the posts from your blogger account.

The process is very simple and wordpress import feature made it too easy for non techy people as well.

But before you Import your blog, wait for my next post on how to do 301 perma redirection from blogspot to wordpress.

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1 Mayur Somani April 21, 2009 at 23:30: Very Useful!

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2 ddlinks May 17, 2009 at 07:57: hi my friend, thank u for all the great tips u provide at your site.
i have a question for u ?
i want migrate from blogger to wordpress can u explain what the problems i will face especially in

1- i have my own domain hosted in blogger free host (http://www.dd-links.com) if i migrate my page rank will disappear Or not
2- how i migrate my feedburner subscribers.
3- what about my indexed posts and keywords position in search engines if they will hurt.
4- what about my received traffic
please answer me
thank u alot

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3 Ashish Kalmegh May 20, 2009 at 14:43: This is a very simple explanation for migrating blog from blogger to wordpress Thank you ….

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4 ddlinks May 21, 2009 at 08:58: hi i need your answer immediately
now iam facing importing from blogger to wordpress
every time i click an import button it changes into set authors ones
and when i set my admin user wordpress don’t import any thing
but wordpress read that i have 174 post and 72 comments
what i can do to import my posts and comments ?

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5 Harsh Agrawal May 21, 2009 at 09:02: Hey DDlinks,
If you are facing issue while importing under admin user, It also has an option to set the previous author for your previous posts..
Though… If you are importing from blogspot to wordpress , You also need to set 301 perma redirection as well.
Have a look at this tutorial
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-to-migrate-from-blogspot-to-wordpress-with-301-permanent-redirection-without-loosing-traffic.html

Let me know if you face any issue.

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6 Christina March 2, 2010 at 20:31: I’m reading this post of your after-the-fact of transferring my blog from blogspot to wordpress. Everything seems to have come over fine, except for my users. How can I now transfer just my registered users from my old blogspot blog to my new and improved wordpress blog? Any insight would be helpful.

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