Blogger to WordPress
Recently, I discovered an old wordpress blog I started in 2005 that I had completely forgotten about. It makes me think about all the digital breadcrumbs down forgotten paths I’ve left all over the place over the years. I’ve started so many projects that seemed like a good idea at the time, were created just for testing, or out of simple curiosity. So, I decided to experiment with moving my blogger site back over to wordpress in a first step to consolidating some of the crumbs into a loaf. I was pleasantly surprised how easy it is.
1. In Blogger, go to the settings panel and click on ‘Export Blog’
2. Click on ‘Download Blog’ – this will download an xml file to your computer with all your Blogger posts
3. In the WordPress dashboard in the Tools panel under Import, click on Blogger
4. The Authorize button which tries to connect directly to my Google account, which I tried initially, didn’t work even though I was logged into my Blogger account, had a new and unmodified template, etc. So, I tried importing the Blogger export file I created and it worked seamlessly. 
My old Blogger site is now moved into it’s new home of the even older WordPress site. The casualties were that my blogroll links disappeared and the Blogger ‘Labels’ became WordPress ‘Categories’, which are nice because you can create sub-categories for better organization. The verdict is still out for which one I’ll keep, as I am fairly plugged into the Googleverse these days so I may end up reverting.
