Ways to Import Blogger Posts, Labels and Comments to WordPress


How to Import Blogger Posts, Labels and Comments into WordPress

Moving from a Blogger blog to a WordPress blog is an usual practice these days. WordPress blogs are considered to be the best for professional blogging. If you are planning to move from Blogger to WordPress, you might be looking for an easy way to import Blogger posts to the WordPress blog. Following are some simple tutorials meant for the WordPress beginners who wish to transfer their blog posts, labels and comments from Blogger to WordPress.

Note: These are NOT the tutorials for complete migration from blogger to wordpress by keeping the same permanent links. These are just IMPORTING blog posts from a Blogger blog to a WordPress blog. These tutorials will work for both Self-hosted WordPress as well as WordPress.com blogs.

Method 1

  1. Go to Blogger Dashboard – Settings – and click Export blog under Blog Tools at the top.
    How to Import Blogger Posts, Labels and Comments into WordPress
  2. Click DOWNLOAD BLOG button and save the exported XML file.
    How to Import Blogger Posts, Labels and Comments into WordPress
  3. Now go to your WordPress Dashboard – Tools menu – click Import – and choose Blogger from the list.
    How to Import Blogger Posts, Labels and Comments into WordPress
  4. Click Authorize, then Sign-in to your Google Blogger account.
    How to Import Blogger Posts, Labels and Comments into WordPress
  5. Click Grant access.
    How to Import Blogger Posts, Labels and Comments into WordPress
  6. Now you will see a list of your Blogger blogs with number of posts and comments in your WordPress Dashboard. Click the Import button near the blog you want to import.
  7. When the importing process is finished, you will see all the imported items in Posts and Comments menu in your WordPress Dashboard.

If you face any probelms in the above method, try other methods given below.

Method 2

  1. Do the first 3 steps described above.
  2. Now towards bottom you can find a section as shown in the screenshot below.
    Click Choose File and select the Blogger xml exported file and click Upload file and import button.
    How to Import Blogger Posts, Labels and Comments into WordPress
  3. You will see a response like ‘Your file has been successfully uploaded. We will begin processing your import right away.‘
    Check the Posts and Comments menu in your WordPress Dashboard to see the imported items.

Again if you are encountering any errors, try the next method!

Method 3

  1. Do the first 2 steps as described in Method-1 above.
  2. Then go to Blogger2wordpress.appspot.com, select the exported file and click Convert. Save the converted WXR file.
  3. Now go to your WordPress Dashboard – Tools menu – click Import – and choose WordPress from the list.
  4. Then open the converted WXR file and click Upload file and import button. This will import all the posts, labels and comments.
  5. That’s all! You can find all the imported articles in Posts menu in the WordPress Dashboard.

Hope this simple tutorial helped you and was simple indeed! Just make some tweaks in categories, tags and permanent link structure to suit your requirements. Good luck!
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21 Responsesto “Ways to Import Blogger Posts, Labels and Comments to WordPress”

  1. learnhackz says:
    May 6, 2010 at 9:50 am

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  2. Simrandeep says:
    May 8, 2010 at 5:15 pm

    That’s really a informative article. You can hire me if you can to move your blog from blogger to wordpress :)

  3. Shafar@TipsBlogger says:
    May 9, 2010 at 1:14 pm

    @tricksdaddy
    Yeah sure Simran. I know that you’ll give me discount!! Lol..!

  4. Simrandeep says:
    May 9, 2010 at 1:31 pm

    Sure … you will get special discount coupon :D

  5. kang says:
    August 9, 2010 at 9:18 pm

    Thanks. I tried all methods… ur last method works smooth.

  6. Shafar@TipsBlogger says:
    August 10, 2010 at 7:31 am

    @kang
    Good to hear that. :)

  7. Mamun says:
    September 22, 2010 at 10:55 am

    this tutorials is not complete

  8. Shafar says:
    September 26, 2010 at 10:31 am

    @Mamun
    Please let me know what is missing. :)

  9. Get on Google says:
    October 12, 2010 at 8:59 am

    Thanks, step 3 worked! :)

  10. Help says:
    October 29, 2010 at 2:42 pm

    When i click on Importer it says
    No importers are available.

  11. Shafar says:
    November 5, 2010 at 6:19 pm

    @Help
    Try other methods!

  12. shandye says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:45 pm

    my blog was deleted but i managed to retrieved its rss feed.

    can i still import it somehow to a new wordpress or blogspot?

    if i am able to do so, may i know how?

    thanks in advance.

  13. Shafar says:
    January 15, 2011 at 12:13 am

    @shandye
    If you have saved/exported your posts, you can import it to new wordpress. I’m not sure of importing posts through RSS feeds. Try this solution:
    http://www.alledia.com/blog/wordpress-tutorials/importing-rss-feeds-into-wordpress-posts/

  14. John says:
    April 24, 2011 at 5:51 pm

    Hi, I used the third method, but the “labels” in Blogger did not get transferred to WordPress. Is there any remedy to that?

  15. Shafar says:
    April 24, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    @John
    Did you try the first two methods? If you have less amount of posts, I suggest you to add categories again to the existing posts manually. WordPress categories are SEO optimized with descriptions.

  16. John says:
    April 24, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    The Method 1, I get error message:
    The page you have requested cannot be displayed. Another site was requesting access to your Google Account, but sent a malformed request. Please contact the site that you were trying to use when you received this message to inform them of the error.

    For the Method 2, I think that screenshot interface is no longer there…

  17. Shafar says:
    May 1, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    @John
    Like I said, if third method is working, try adding categories and tags to all posts manually. I have done this when I moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress.

  18. johnny says:
    October 12, 2011 at 9:54 am

    i did add categories and labels to my imported blog in wordpress manually, and i did it with 160 posts,, hahaha now thats hard work..

  19. Shafar says:
    October 12, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    @johnny
    Great job :)

  20. Fernando Benito says:
    November 13, 2011 at 5:16 pm

    The second method is not available in the last version of wordpress.

    The other methods are working well.

    To add tags I use the plugin Simple Tags

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