Migrating from Blogger to Wordpress: Ain't that easy as it should be!

As I said before, I had to change my blog host. Now, the problem was that there were some entries, tags and whatnots that I wanted to carry over to the new hosting. Shall be easy, no? Au contaire, my friends!

Oh yes, there is Blogger import button in the Wordpress control panel allright. It just didn't work for me (authentication problems with Google Data API). And ATOM file exported from Blogger control panel could not be imported into Wordpress directly. Several offline blogging tools that I tried to use were of no help either.

Finally I have found the solution. Google provides some Perl code for conversion (as I have no sensible way to run Perl scripts, these were of no use to me). Now some people just took these tools and created an online service called Blogger2Wordpress. It works like magic, taking Blogger's ATOM backup file and outputting Wordpress XML which can then be used with Wordpress import feature. Just go to the Blogger control panel and export your blog (Dashboard -> Settings -> Basic -> Export blog). After that go to the Blogger2Wordpress site, browse for the file you saved your blog to and you'll get a Wordpress backup file. Now go to the Wordpress dashboard (Dashboard -> Tools - > Import) and click " Wordpress " in the list that'll appear on the right. Select the file you've just received and voila! - you get all of your Blogger blog imported to your Wordpress blog. Neat, eh?