Wednesday, 2 May 2007

Old content re-imported

I found that plenty of people were wanting to move from Blogger to Wordpress, but very very few wanted to do the reverse. What can I say, I'm weird.

For those who, like me, were struggling to figure out how to import from Wordpress to Blogger - the tool you want is called Blogsync GUI and it's available here: http://zeaster.blogspot.com/2007/02/blogsync-with-gui-coming-import-your.html

The only problems with it are:
  • Ability to import the author of each post. So right now I appear to be claiming credit for all of MG's posts. I will be fixing this very shortly.
  • No way to import comments. Luckily there aren't many (well, since I got rid of the 100,000 or so spams I had on Wordpress) so hopefully there will be some way to do them by hand.
Other than that, it's superb. The formatting of the posts, date, time and even labels have all been transferred across. Excellent.

UPDATE: comments are now imported. They didn't keep their time stamps, so I put those in by hand.

2 comments:

Ted Martin said...

I've heard from a lot of people moving to Wordpress. I'm sure it's a fine service, but I'm staying with Blogger for one reason -- it's owned and operated by Google. What happens if Wordpress goes out of business? Google, on the other hand, will be around for a long time, probably too long.

Deryk said...

Indeed, I'm very much a fan of "letting someone else worry about it" these days. My primary reason is the cat-and-mouse game with spammers: Wordpress needs to be upgraded often to keep ahead of the spammers. With Blogger you can let Google worry about it.

The only thing I don't like is the lack of backup feature (unless I'm missing something). Ever since trusting Plus.net (*spit*) look after my emails, I don't quite trust online services to keep backups any more.