Moving from WordPress.com to self hosted WordPress.org is not the same as moving from Blogger to WordPress. The one thing which concerns any user in moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org is the fear of losing the huge chunk of email subscriber he/she might have earned in his/her popular WordPress.com blog. Everyone wants to retain their previous readers list but the problem is that none of the standard feed service like feedburner or feedblitz provide an option for importing the email list. [Read more…]
How to import a blog from WordPress to Blogspot?
To keep the same blog on WordPress and Blogspot, export/import feature is most convenient tool. Follow these steps (divided into 3 parts):
WordPress:
- Go to Dashboard
- Look for Tools in the left sidebar
- Choose the Export feature
- You can apply filters to select a few post
- If you want all the posts, do not apply filters
- Click Download Export File
- Save the XML file
Convert from WordPress to Blogspot: Though the downloaded
file is XML and blogspot/blogger allows the import of XML file it will still give you the error “Sorry, the import failed due to a server error. The error code is bX-tjg9ds“. To successfully import the blog into blogspot I would suggest you to use an online tool on website If your wordpress file is less than 1 MB, it will convert the wordpress file to a file compatible with blogspot. (If you are still having trouble downloading the file, I would suggest to use Google Chrome instead of Firefox, I faced problem with Firefox). Save This new file.
Blogspot/Blogger: Similar steps to WordPress. Follow these steps:
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Select the new file downloaded from http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/
- Your blog is imported to blogspot
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