The Not-So-Gilded Palace of Blog

It seems that Thomas Hawk has come around to my way of thinking.  I have wanted out of Blogger for as long as I can remember, but I’m not willing to sacrifice all of my URLs to do it.  It is nuts that there isn’t an easy way to move to WordPress while preserving your URLs.

I periodically have the irritating partial feed problem too.  I can’t believe Blogger hasn’t worked harder to fix this problem.  And, candidly, I can’t believe WordPress hasn’t come up with a way to import Blogger blogs while preserving the URLs.  All in all, it’s a total cluster&%$# for those of us who are stuck inside of Blogger with the WordPress blues- yet again.

At this point, I’m willing to pay someone to move my blog over to WordPress.  I have the server.  I even have a mostly complete WordPress template, thanks to Eric Scalf.  I just need to get it set up (which I could do) and preserve the URLs of my existing pages (which I don’t know how to do).  I’m not going to risk destroying my blog by trying to figure this out by myself, so the only hope I have is to find someone qualified who does this sort of thing for hire.

Maybe Thomas and I can hire someone to do both our blogs at the same time.

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  • http://www.beagooddad.com/ beagooddad

    Did you see that the guy who wrote the workaround you mentioned back in March has written a bit of an update for wordpress 2.0?http://justinsomnia.org/2005/06/importing-haloscan-comments-into-wordpress/I'd be interested in taking a poke at that. I have a couple old blogger blogs that I might have to try to move to dummy wordpress blogs. What is the URL issue that you are expecting so that I can make sure that is working?

  • http://justinsomnia.org/ Justin

    I’d be happy to lend a hand as well. Looks like there’s a need for an easier tool to preserve URLs moving from blogger to WordPress. Shoot me an email if you’d like chat more.