Can’t import my blogger .xml file into wordpress

  • Unknown's avatar
    yoontaylor · Member ·

    Hi there,

    I am a brand new WP user (and barely know what I’m doing!) and have a Blogger blog I’m trying to transfer over to self-hosted WP. I’m having trouble importing my blogger .xml file into WP (via bluehost).

    I followed the instructions on http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-switch-from-blogger-to-wordpress-without-losing-google-rankings/ but my posts nor anything else never got transferred.

    When I used the Blogger importer, it appeared to load and even indicated that the .xml uploaded 100% but after that, all that appeared was a button that said Submit but there was nothing to submit.
    When I navigated to another page and then went back to the upload page, this message appeared:

    Sorry, there has been an error.
    File is empty. Please upload something more substantial. This error could also be caused by uploads being disabled in your php.ini or by post_max_size being defined as smaller than upload_max_filesize in php.ini.

    My .xml file is about 10MB and definitely has ‘stuff’ in it. I checked my php.ini via the PHP Settings plug in and saw that and my upload_max_filesize and post_max_size are both set to 64M and file_upload is ON.
    Upon reading other suggestions, I tried setting max_execution_time & max_input_time = 300 but that didn’t help either.

    I tried clearing my cache on the site and on my brower (Chrome Version 67.0.3396.87 (Official Build) (64-bit)) and even rebooted my computer.

    I’ve been told I’m working in maintenance mode but don’t know if that has anything to do with it. http://box2078.temp.domains/~myepicu1/

    I’m not sure what else to try and am hoping you can help me out!

    Thank you!

    Christine :)

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

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    I’ve been told I’m working in maintenance mode but don’t know if that has anything to do with it. http://box2078.temp.domains/~myepicu1/

    Is that the site to which you’re trying to import? If so, we’re not able to help you here. That site uses the open source WordPress software found on WordPress.org, and in this forum we can only help with sites hosted with us on WordPress.com.

    Please ask for advice in the forums for the open source WordPress software instead:

    https://wordpress.org/support/

    One possibility, though – blogger offers two XML exports – a template export and a content backup. Please make sure you’re using the latter. You won’t be able to import a blogger template export to a WordPress site.

  • Unknown's avatar
    yoontaylor · Member ·

    Thanks, Kokkieh!

    As soon as I posted this, I realized I put it in the wrong forum… .com vs. .org so I went a head and posted this there. Unfortunately, I couldn’t figure out how to delete questions on here. Thanks for the reply!

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