Blogger is getting better and there could be bloggers wanting to import and convert their Wordpress blog to Blogger blog. Wordpress has in-built feature (under ‘tools’ tab) to import any Blogger blog. However, reverse conversion of Wordpress blog to Blogger blog is not supported.
Well, not anymore - you can convert your Wordpress blog to Blogger blog. Wordpress2Blogger web service provide a dead simple way for this conversion. To get started, login into your Wordpress blog then goto ‘Manage’ or ‘Tools’ tab and look for export option. Using this option download Wordpress WXR export file.
Now upload this file to Wordpress2Blogger online service to make it Blogger compatible. Download the resultant file and upload it into Blogger blog using import feature in Blogger dashboard. Your Wordpress posts should start appearing in Blogger blog. This method is suitable for smaller blogs with export / import files less than 1MB.
In case you want more technical way for Wordpress to Blogger conversion then checkout Google Blog Converter project. As pointed by Google OpenSource blog “… This new Open Source project provides the ability to easily move blog posts and comments from service to service. This initial release provides Python libraries and runnable scripts that convert between the export formats of Blogger, LiveJournal, MovableType, and WordPress.” Take you pick!
Nice tool. But I believe no Wordpress users (or a few users may) want to use blogspot.
Let me tell you a much better way of doing it, i have been using for ages
Download and install window live writer and keep on transferring postings between not only wordpress or bloggers but any blog platform like typepad, live journal.
Much simpler solution is to use window live writer for transferring the content not only between wordpress and bloggers but virtually any blogging platform in this cool world.
Download window live writer on your desktop , go the webblog tap and use your grey matters to configure it…very simple, i swear…
Steve Yu is wrong wrong wrong. I’m sick of the limited ability on wordpress. I’ve changed over to blogspot as they are fresh and new, support adsense, and have the ablity to customize the layout and backgrounds without having to pay $15+ per year. Wordpress is a rip off and is old fashioned and out of date.
Thank you thank you thank you sooo much for this post!!!
I really appreciate your help :)))
Unfortunately I have to agree with Kelly!
I’m very disappointed at poor theme choises and the lack of possibility to edit and modify wordpress blog. I wish I had choisen blogger 6 months ago..
Huwatt? No Wordpress user will transfer to Blogger? I’m reverting back to Blogger.
Wordpress SUCKS to the max! I am outta there! I should of listened but I didn’t. But WP will be getting a nasty letter….WORD SUPPRESS should be aptly named!
Is there any way to export more than 1 MB using the converter tool? I tried it and it only sent my first two posts over to blogger. I have many more than that.
I’m converting a couple of my wp blogs to blogger not because of stupid reasons like poor theme choices - wtf blogger has even less themes to choose from - I’m just sick of worrying about hackers.
So far, no one has managed to hack into blogspot.
between wordpress.com and blogger … blogger obviously gets the upper hand . except for the lack of ‘pages’ blogger offers more options for its users .
blogger also offers the custom domain option for free .
now between wordpress cms and blogger.com … wordpress wins by a longshot . if uo have a good host ( good at all aspects ) then wordpress is the way to go . it offers some great customization , a huge library of plugins ( good ones ) and not to mention the themes …
most blogger templates out there are poorly written where as wordpress templates usually come an optimized form .
i think that saying that wordpress sucks is a little too much . it all depends on what you want from your blog .
as for the conversion … this is one HUUUUGE problem with blogger.com . i’m struggling to get my blog on blogger and my db obviously has more than 1 mb in size … so i don’t really know how i’m going to do it ( an idea for a future post might be exactly this - a guide on installing that app from google on your computer using a local host and then converting your xml . not all of us are proficient in python ) .
one way i’m gonna try it is i will split my xml file in 2 separate files using a text editor ( simply download 2 copy’s of my post db and then cut the first half of posts and in the second file cut the second part of the posts - to make them smaller ) and then i think i will upload 2 separate xml files .
theoretically this should work if blogger allows 2 uploads without overwriting anything .
Most of my blogs are from blogger and I’m comfortable to use blogger platform. I tried to use wordpress and it seems that it’s hard to customized my blog. In blogger I can customized my templates and I can simply embed the adsense code on it.