Possible Solution to my Blog2Blog Migration Problem
I am still stuck on the blog migration problem. And while I was googleing, I found this, quite complicated but I will still try, and see what I can accomplish after. I will be blogging the result of my experimentation later on.
These are what I need:
- Download the script wptoblogger.py.
- Ensure you have Python 2.5, BeautifulSoup and Google’s GData Python Client.
- Create your target Blogger blog and note its ID.
- Export your WordPress blog to an XML file (I think this is only available in version 2 and above of WordPress).
- Run wptoblogger:python wptoblogger.py -u your_blogger_username -b your_blog_id -a author_for_posts wordpress_xml_file
Like what I have blogged previously, there is a limitation to every blog to blog transfer, and among them which I quoted from codesimple are:
- It doesn’t support multiple blog authors – all posts will be marked with the author_for_posts.
- A limitation with the Blogger API means that comment authors can’t be set (they always appear as the blog author). As a workaround, I prefix each comment with a “Comment from…” line (see the existing comments on this blog).
- Blogger impose a limit on the number of posts you can create via the API in a certain time period. So if you have a lot of posts to transfer you may need to modify the script to post them in batches over a number of days.
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