Complicated Importing Blog Post Scenario

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  shark34 · Member · Mar 15, 2008 at 11:33 am

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  Hi

  I have a blog that I started on Blogger. I then bought a domain name – http://www.chichestersharks.co.uk and hosting package and set Blogger up to post to that domain.

  Realising years later that I would rather use WordPress, I have been building a new site – http://chichestersharks.wordpress.com/ – which I’m almost ready to launch. First I want to domain map to my own URL (www.chichestersharks.co.uk). I understand how to do this.

  My problem is:

  * how do I import my existing posts files from my host server to WordPress?

  * failing that, anyone know how to import them back into Blogger, so I can add a link from my WordPress site to my ‘archive’ on Blogger?

  Or has anyone got a better idea? :-)

  cheers for any suggestions

  Gary

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  isadora · Member · Mar 15, 2008 at 2:40 pm

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  Import from blogger: go to “Manage” > “Import” and click on the “Blogger” hyperlink, then follow the instructions.

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  shark34 · Member · Mar 15, 2008 at 4:38 pm

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  yeah, i’ve tried that and it says there are zero posts to import.

  I think that maybe when you use Blogger to post to a blog on a separate hosted site with your own domain name, the posts are not stored on Blogger. Looking in my files on my hosting providers’ control panel, I can see the html pages of my posts. is a correct assumption?

  Any suggestions?

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  isadora · Member · Mar 15, 2008 at 5:05 pm

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  What about asking Blogger support how to export your contents?

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  shark34 · Member · Mar 15, 2008 at 5:29 pm

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  Thanks I think i’ll have to. Was hoping WordPress would have a solution!