Major importing problem

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  mrjoshuarogers · Member · Dec 8, 2013 at 3:15 am

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  I tried to import my Blogger blog, and unfortunately, it only imported the posts up until the page break of each post. So I went through and deleted all those posts that were imported, and then took out all the page breaks of every post I had written, and I tried to reimport, but after I click “authorize” it sends me over to the authorization page, and then that kicks me back to the “authorize” button like nothing happened. Please help.

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  kardotim · Member · Dec 9, 2013 at 8:45 am

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  Have you tried importing using a blogger (.xml) export file? You can upload that file at Tools -> Import -> Blogger -> http://en.support.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/havebloggerexportfile.jpg

  Let me know how that goes.

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  mrjoshuarogers · Member · Dec 9, 2013 at 2:04 pm

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  I discovered that all of my posts were still in the trash, so I permanently deleted them and tried to import them again, and it worked. Thanks.

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  kardotim · Member · Dec 9, 2013 at 2:34 pm

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  Awesome! Please let us know if you need any further assistance.

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  mrjoshuarogers · Member · Dec 9, 2013 at 5:08 pm

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  Thanks. Related to this question, I ran across a blog that gave this advice about migrating from Blogger to WordPress: “Internal links are an excellent SEO tool and help readers find relevant content in your blog. However, links you created in Blogger end with the tag .html – but on WordPress they don’t. If you don’t fix these, you will have more ‘page not found’ errors. And you lose the chance to engage your readers!”

  If I don’t go through and manually change all the links to my previous posts, am I really going to deal with this problem?

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  kardotim · Member · Dec 10, 2013 at 6:51 am

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  Could you please send a link of a post with such links in it?

  Note that you can read more about SEO on WordPress.com at http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/

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  mrjoshuarogers · Member · Dec 10, 2013 at 2:22 pm

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  Sure. But you didn’t answer my question. Is that quote accurate?

  http://www.thesitsgirls.com/blogging/blogger-to-wordpress-ten-most-common-mistakes-people-make-when-they-move/

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  kardotim · Member · Dec 10, 2013 at 3:50 pm

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  That’s accurate. However, on WordPress.com we automatically redirect the .html links to the correct page, this should prevent any ‘Page not found’ error to happen.

  Let me know if you have any other questions.

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  mrjoshuarogers · Member · Dec 13, 2013 at 2:40 am

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  I have two more questions: (1) for some reason, I only have a Twitter and RSS share emblem at the top of my blog, and not Facebook or anything else, but I can’t find a way to fix that; and (2) I want my posts to have a nice little picture under the date, rather than just a blank square; how do I do that?

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  mrjoshuarogers · Member · Dec 13, 2013 at 2:44 am

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  Actually, I just figured out question 2. I need to “Set a Featured Image.” But how about the other question?

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  kardotim · Member · Dec 13, 2013 at 7:43 am

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  You can go to Appearance -> Theme Options -> Subscribe Links to enable other social media links.

  https://joshuarogersblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=ttf-admin.php