Another bit of information that I found out is, you can actually make the posting exactly as it was prior to the import by using the manual mode at the top of the WP editor page. Simply copy what the original article naming convention was, and if you have custom permalinks configured, you can edit the field: Permalink: at the top of the editor page. You can only change the file name, not the entire location or ending file naming convention which is set and assigned from the WordPress settings, Permalink page information.

I think I will simply go through and edit my postings that have lots of comments, and revert these manually to the proper file names, and manually assign the categories. I’ll simply compare notes between one posting and the other. I have about 70 postings to configure, though some of them are 4000 + words long.

Also note that Flash embedded in a posting is not properly imported using the http://blogger2wordpress.appspot.com online script application. It comes in as a long link only. The online script does do a good job on the comments though.

What I plan to do in this case is copy and paste from one posting to the other, so the comments and the Flash are properly embedded.

Once I get these configured properly, I will then attempt the final switch to make it live.

Additionally, because I loaded WordPress in a subdirectory, which I had not used before, I found out that it is simple to make the WP blog appear as though it is at the root (public_html) level of the blog. I need to do this because my largest blog was at the root directory of the website. In fact, I found this posting at WordPress about keeping all the files for WP in its own directory while making it appear that the blog is at the root. Since I already had the blog at its own directory, I tried following this procedure: http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory and it works great. I then did some tweaking of the .htaccess files (that you had come up with) and was able to remove the subdirectory from the WP blog postings to make them exactly the same as they were with Blogger. I’ll share the details for the archives and the labels/categories once I get through the import comments mess.

Jim

I have got all the comments in by using http://blogger2wordpress.appspot.com/ although the Blogger labels are brought in as tags and not categories, and the “slugs” are lost so all the URLs will not be the same. If this is not a problem for you then great, just amend the htaccess file in the labels directory to reflect this change.

In the end I pulled in this converted export and used a plugin to move all the comments manually. It took a while, but I wanted the labels as categories.

I had used a lot of your ideas and another quick and easy script to change all the posts back to their original file names that were being used by the FTP Blogger system of posting.

However, like I said, I soon discovered that only part of the comments were being imported to the new WP system on my server. So, I tried deleting the new imported Blogger to WP posts and tried again with a fresh import. Same exact thing.

I don’t have the option on my WordPress blog to import from an XML Blogger exported and saved local file. But, at http://www.wordpress.com and the blogs that are hosted there, there is an option to import from an XML file. Do you know the details about this and getting the XML file import option via a plugin to WordPress?

I was ready to go live, and then after this discovery, I had to revert back to using the old files and folders at my website. I had everything tested out, including new .htaccess files at various locations and then this slight roadblock showed up.

By the way, it seems that if I have over 40 or 50 comments in a posting, only the first 40 or 50 get imported. I have several posts with over a hundred comments.

Any info would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Jim