Can You Swith From Blogger To wordpress, AND….

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  theeraser21 · Member · Jan 24, 2010 at 4:58 pm

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  keep your posts, rss feed, domain name ect?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 24, 2010 at 5:07 pm

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  Not if your domain name has “.blogspot.com” in it. And the URL of your RSS feed will change as well, if it’s a .blogspot.com domain. If you have a unique URL like Whatever.com then your URL will remain the same PROVIDED you purchase the $10 a year domain mapping upgrade. And then your feed will still be Whatever.com/feed too.

  But if you do an import then your content will come over. Instructions for that are here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=blogspot

  You can’t keep your theme; you will have to use one of the ones here.

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  theeraser21 · Member · Jan 24, 2010 at 6:04 pm

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  I have a .com domain name, reservationforsix.com. i’m not worried about the theme, that’s why I am switching to wordpress

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jan 24, 2010 at 6:10 pm

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  @rain: Does “content” include images and videos? (The OP has lots of them.)

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 24, 2010 at 6:13 pm

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  It includes images, but the embeds probably won’t work and will need to be reformatted with WP.com shortcodes. Although since the last upgrade, they MAY in fact automatically convert to a working format.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jan 24, 2010 at 6:19 pm

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  Thanks – I thought images don’t transfer over.

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  tbol3 · Member · Jan 24, 2010 at 7:09 pm

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  Also, I’ve heard (but have not tested this out for sure), that blogger uses feedburner for it’s RSS feed. If that is true, all you need to do is tell feedburner to point its feed to the wordpress RSS feed, and you’re set.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 24, 2010 at 8:07 pm

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  Images from Blogger blogs didn’t transfer in the past and I’m surprised to hear they do now – good news!

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 24, 2010 at 8:18 pm

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  Wait, wait, I’m only going on secondhand evidence. If they’ve NEVER transfered in the past (which I had not heard) then I’m not sure they will transfer now.

  In any case, you can always do an import, see if it works out for you, and delete the blog if you don’t like it.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 24, 2010 at 10:05 pm

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  I clearly remember that I was unable to get my images when I did a Blogger export. Technically it was a hotlinking issue so the images were there and then disappeared. Mind you that was back in 2006. I had to upload them all again.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 24, 2010 at 10:33 pm

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  Ugh, that sounds horrible. But isn’t there a way to export them via RSS and then upload them? I thought there was, but can’t find it in the forums now.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 24, 2010 at 10:39 pm

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  There were RSS import instructional posts on Options blog but they are now 404’s. I recall two; one for Zanga and one for MovableType. I don’t recall one for an RSS export from Blogger in that blog or in any blog.