I can’t give you the exact time or date but it looks like we’ll have Blogger importing available to everyone very soon. The Blogger importer is online! I just ran it on this blog and it worked like a dream. Donncha imported his old Blogspot blog into a WordPress.com test blog and it looks very hunky-dory to me! There would be comments, too, but Donncha’s old blog lived in the dark ages of blogging, before Blogger had comments. 
Here’s a little advanced information on the importer:
- It’s super-easy. I’d call it a “one-click importer” but it’s really more like two.
- It’s pretty fast. My 100+ posts and 200+ comments were imported in under two minutes.
- It’s pretty safe. To make it so easy to use, I had to get the WordPress server and the Blogger server to talk and the conversations get pretty intimate. It will modify your template to make your blog easier for the machine to understand, then restore your old template and settings afterwards. However, if you have spent much time modifying your Blogger template you should make a backup copy before you run the importer. I never lost my template during testing but hey, you never know. (It’s perfectly safe for your posts and comments.)
- It’s capable of importing as many Blogger blogs as you have access to.
- It’s better than ice cream (but not gelato).
October 19, 2005 at 9:04 pm |
Fantabulo! And yes, nothing beats gelato!
October 26, 2005 at 11:32 pm |
Is it still there? I can’t find it anywhere.
October 27, 2005 at 1:49 am |
Justin: Some folks have had trouble with the importer so it has been removed from the menu. It’ll be back soon.
November 4, 2005 at 3:27 am |
That’s bad news. Let us know when the script is back up and running.
November 20, 2005 at 6:00 am |
[...] All these WordPress hosts by default do not offer Blogger import, although looks like WordPress.com would soon offer it (was offered in 3rd week of October and disabled for further testing). [...]
November 26, 2005 at 1:53 pm |
ya keep us informed about when it is back up. Is there any update on it.
November 28, 2005 at 1:08 am |
Hey Andy… well, with the wordpress.com doors open, you’ll now have many more peeps (myself included) hoping that the WP import feature comes back online! For some of us, the inability to bring our legacy blog content over to WP is all that’s stopping us from a full-on jump to the WP bandwagon! (Oh yeah, and keep up the good work!)
December 2, 2005 at 11:48 pm |
I sure hope this importer utility comes back…. I can’t move to WP until I am able to import my blogger blog.
December 5, 2005 at 12:23 am |
[...] And now, importing data is even easier. Just go to your admin panel on the right most tab. For now, you can only import data from Blogger complete with the comments. Three words, W O W. I’m sure there are many people who must be happy with this. I will choose WordPress.com over Blogger. No offense, maybe it’s just me. I may be considering a move for my old data from Blogger to here just like Donncha. [...]
January 10, 2006 at 8:52 pm |
I really need this importer back online. Can you give me an ETA? I have about 200+ posts to import from Blogger. If comments can’t be imported, it’s fine.
January 20, 2006 at 7:38 am |
[...] Then I found this discussion – which says the process is dead easy, but comments reveal that some people had problems with it and it was taken down again in October, to be returned “soon”. [...]
March 10, 2006 at 8:49 am |
It would be nice to have a Haloscan importer too. Most Blogger users use Haloscan instead of Blogger comments (it’s sort of a “new” thing).
October 18, 2006 at 12:03 pm |
Andy, I recently wrote up a post describing how to ensure that the Blogger permalinks get imported into WordPress using the current 2.0.x importer: Maintain permalinks moving from Blogger to WordPress.
In hopes that these minor (and important, imho) code changes can get rolled into WordPress core, I’ve submitted my changes as a patch: Ticket #3241. Thought you might want to take a looksee.