Migrating from wordpress to blogger

Migrating the blogs - having the content, image, comments, etc from wordpress to blogger seams bit complex at first. The below steps will make migration really very easy.

Export the content from Wordpress

1. Login the the wordpress dashboard.by opening https://<blog>.wordpress.com/wp-admin/ in the browser.
2. On left Nav, select Tools -> Export
3. Select 'All content'
   
4. Click 'Download Export File'
   
5. The XML file will be downloaded.

Convert the Wordpress to Blogger Format

The downloaded file needs to be converted to blogger file format so that it can be imported later to blogger.

1. Checkout the code from the github:  https://github.com/pra85/google-blog-converters-appengine.
   
2. go to the directory 'google-blog-converters-appengine' 

              [pooja@localhost dev]$ cd google-blog-converters-appengine/
 
      3. Run the 'bin/wordpress2blogger.sh' script with input - above downloaded file and output file.

              [pooja@localhost google-blog-converters-appengine]$ bin/wordpress2blogger.sh ~/Downloads/leveragebigdata.wordpress.2016-12-29.xml >> blog.xml

Import the file to blogger

The blogger format file generated by converter tool needs to be uploaded to blogger.

1. Open https://www.blogger.com/ in browser.
   
2. Navigate the left: Settings -> Other
   
3. Click import content
   
4. Click 'Import from computer' and browse to the converter generated file.
   
5. The blogs will be imported and listed as below
   
6. Publish the posts.

Handling Errors

1. Error during execution of converter tool script:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "bin/../src/wordpress2blogger/wp2b.py", line 26, in <module>

    import gdata

ImportError: No module named gdata             

Solution: sudo pip install gdata

      2. Images loses the alignment. From Left Nav -> Template -> Customize

Click 'Advanced' -> Add CSS 

Paste the CSS:

.post-body img {

width:100%;

height:100%;

display: block;

}

Click 'Apply to Blog' and check the blogs.

Happy blogging !!!