I’ve been playing with Blogger lately, and have been very impressed with how much better it is than I remember it being just a couple of years ago. So much so, in fact, that I decided to import some of my stuff to Blogger in order to try it out on an extended basis.
The problem? Blogger only imports sites in a specific Blogger-only format. If you want to import a Wordpress, Tumblr or Posterous blog you’re out of luck. Or are you?
As it happens, no, you’re not. I was able to import some of my Posterous stuff into Blogger, but I did it using Wordpress.com. Wordpress?
Yes, Wordpress. Turns out that Wordpress.com has an importer that can handle Posterous blogs quite nicely—images, comments, and everything. Go into your Wordpress dashboard (once you’ve opened a WP account, of course) and click on Tools > Import > Posterous. But once you get it into Wordpress, you’re only halfway there. You still need to convert it to a format that Blogger can handle.
Solution: Wordpress2Blogger. Hosted on Google App Engine, it allows you to upload your file, converts it, and downloads a Blogger-friendly XML file to your computer. It’s supposedly limited to files of 1 MB or smaller (although it handled my 1.1 MB file just fine), but it’s open-source and you can run it locally by going to code.google.com/p/google-blog-converters-appengine/. There are also links there to other apps that will convert a wide variety of formats, including converting your Blogger files to something else if you want to move on.
Thanks to Google’s Data Liberation Front for making such a useful tool!
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