Moving from Blogger to WordPress and get an authorization Error in your Google account (Gmail), “access-denied”, stopping all the importation process? Also having a limit-size Error when you’re transferring your Intense Debate comments to WordPress? Well, you aren’t alone!
This is my experience with my unconventional move to WordPress.org and the solutions I’ve found. Really hope this tutorial-series will be helpful to other bloggers.
And YEAH finally I’ve ended my migration! 
It feels awesome not to be working in WP-migrating themes that should take few days and not weeks, after my announcement of my move to WordPress.
I decided to write my first “new” guide post in WordPress, giving all the details with the unexpected problems found and the other ways I needed to take ending, successfully, the transition.
I’ll be posting 2 different articles in successive weeks, explaining:
1) How to Import Blogger to WordPress when the Access to your Google Account is Denied
2) - a) How to Import Intense Debate comments to WordPress while getting an Error in maximum limits with your Exported xml file
b) Essential WP Plugins you need to Install Immediately to Reduce Spam, Spammy Pingbacks & Trackbacks and How to Avoid your crazy Ping-Spamming
So relax, take a cup of coffee (with chocolate much better) and enjoy the ride with the first part!
1) Guide How to Import Blogger to WordPress with Authorize-Error in Google Account
I won’t cover the “normal” process of the transition, because there is extensively covered in my articles of reference at the end of this post. I’ll cover the non-conventional ones I needed to take. Let’s go:
- Install WordPress: checked
- Backup your Blogger blog – means Export it: checked
- I’m using my custom domain, so I need to switch back to my domain.blogspot.com: checked
- On WordPress plugin Directory, find the plugin to Import Blogger into WordPress. Install: checked
- Start the Importation: checked
- Begin Authorization to grant access of the WordPress to Blogger via your Google account: checked
- Going to your Google account, really a Gmail, and accept to connect the Blogger blog with the new WordPress blog…and cannot grant access: FAILED!!! WT**F!!!
I received the following 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. A detailed error message follows:
The site “http://sweetsfoods.com” has not been registered.
Or I’ve had also the nasty version in Spanish:
No se puede mostrar la página que has solicitado. Otro sitio web estaba solicitando acceso a tu cuenta de Google, pero envió una solicitud errónea. Por favor, ponte en contacto con el sitio web que estabas intentando utilizar cuando recibiste este mensaje para comunicarles el error. A continuación verás un mensaje de error detallado:
El sitio web “http:// sweetsfoods.com” no se ha registrado.
Of course my site was properly moved and installed. The propagation to my new server was ended very few days ago. This error turned out my migration from Blogger into WordPress totally cancelled!
Roadblock 1 – Transfer Blogger to WordPress
Days to find out how to solve this problem! I tried everything, cleaning history of different browsers, clear cookies, different machines, other gmails / administrators and wait a day to see if I had luck…nope 
It was impossible to contact support, to whom? This was an internal error-problem between Blogger and WordPress.org.
My site was brand new on WP, without content just the post after the installation, and I put only a note warning that I’m in transition, plus receiving spam constantly (see it later on the WP plugins takeway in next post)
* Solution to Roadblock 1 Authorize-Error, Export Blogger to WordPress
I was reading in forums / posts with this problem – believe it or not – it’s quite common! Finally, I needed to change the direction of the move: Convert my exported backup blogger file.xml and importing directly as a WordPress file.wxr
In other words, convert files of Blogger.XML to WordPress.WXR
This application will save your life: go to http://blogger2wordpress.appspot.com/ enter your Blogger file.xml and ‘Convert’ to WP.wxr
With the brand new WP file go to WordPress Tools / Import / WordPress.
Now, you’ll be using the Import Tool for WordPress.com to WordPress.org!
In my case, I passed from a transition of Blogger to a migration from WP.com to WP.org – bizarre.
Theoretically the next steps were easy, just to import that file and done…but nope
Roadblock 2: Import File.WXR to WordPress.org
Install the plugin WordPress Importer and upload the File.WXR.
But again a problem arose; depending of the quantity of posts/comments/images, etc your file xml has, then now your converted WXR, can be big and if it exceeds the 2 MB the importer DOESN’T WORK. If you try it, it’ll return back to you: file too big.
My file was near 4MB!
Once more on the road looking up a solution. Or you touch PHP memory limits (I don’t know if this work) or better you split your WXR into several smaller pieces, in my case were 4 of 1MB.
* Solution to Roadblock 2: How to Split a WXR file
Thankfully to this small free program WXR File Splitter found on WP forum, you can split your WXR (WordPress XML RSS) file, for Windows.
As every program tried from web, it’s paramount to check who made it and verify it before with antivirus / malware or software you trust.
Then you set to split into files lower than 2MB and you can import, one by one, to complete the transition. Today there is a new version 1.51 – I used the version 1.02.
It was magical and said Yay!! when I saw appearing all my posts – but not all the comments received and done by me on my blog. I lost lot of them (I’ll talk about this point together with the Intense Debate comments imported too, later in the second part of the series)
- I’m doing this tutorial for You – if you’re migrating and you’ve some of those problems with the importation. But really I don’t want to repeat this experience anymore! 
Now yes – at last, I could move on with the “normal” process of the transition from Blogger to WordPress.
But I’ve left pending all the Intense Debate comments (about half of the total of my comments), because I was waiting a solution from support of thousands of duplicated comments I’ve in my installation of Blogger. I couldn’t import them till I ended with a healthy-smaller file to handle (my next post)
I want to share as references, articles I’ve read for all this process of migrating from Blogger to WordPress – Thank You all:
- How To Migrate From Blogger To WordPress: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Migrating from Blogger (Blogspot) to WordPress without Losing Any Valuable SEO and Links
Part of a Series: The Ultimate Guide to Launching a WordPress-Powered Blog - Part One: So You Want to Leave Blogger for WordPress, Part 2
- Setting up your Foodie Blog on WordPress, Part 2: Themes and Settings, Part 3: Plugins
As you’ve seen, I’ve been so busy in backstage dealing with the migration issues, fixing hundreds of links / comments etc. I’d add also improving the WP security (solving themes), learning about WordPress-itself, plugins and dealing with my new theme, plus all the upgrades I’ve had in the middle.
But wait! This is the first part of a series of 2 articles. The second part is coming next week with all the process related to the IntenseDebate transition, more WP plugins you’ll need to activate instantly after installing WordPress. Stay tuned
Note: I need to go on with several tech-tasks for a while, so my best of the week series will wait for several weeks. I’m starting also slowly to move my “social machine” on my preferred social networks. Those weekly recaps will be again live when I’ll have more time to compile them – hope soon.
It’s nice to be online again! Till next week with the second part!
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Ok this took way too long welcome back/!
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Yeah this was so long, more than expected – Thanks Claudia!
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Oh my gosh what a nightmare! I’m surprised you didn’t just say F it and start over Gera. Great patience and diligence on your part friend. Happy you are on the way back to some normality!
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Kathy, some days were really frustrating, the idea of start from scratch crossed on my mind, but it’s difficult for me to give up easily
Thanks for coming by!
Hi, Gera. It is good to see you up and running on WP, and your post makes me glad I chose WP, instead of BLogger, to begin with!
Thanks,
Dan
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Dan, it was a hard experience. Coming from WP.com it’s easier to jump to WP.org than Blogger. Nice to see you here
You’re back!! We’ve missed you so. =) =) =)
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I missed too to be in relative normal-mood of blogging, for some time. Thanks for stopping by Belinda!
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Thanks Maria for your kind words & comment – I’ll visit your site!
wow, some great information and tips on the move..I have been contemplating the move for some time now.
Thanks for all the help
Dennis
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Hi Dennis! Really hope that some of those steps and the next coming, can help a little with similar situations
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Wohoo! You did it! What I nightmare with the whole migration part. I had no idea it was so challenging. I’m just glad we started off with WordPress so did not have to deal with all of this. I will be sure to link up to this piece on posts I put up about setting up a blog in WordPress. Testing out your “keywordsluv” plugin as I type
Twitter: sweetsfoods
Thank You Kat! It can be simpler if everything were as planned, but it wasn’t my case and of several bloggers that strive with unexpected problems.
Yes migration from WordPress.com to WordPress.org is easier, but as you saw, there are unusual errors.
I’ve had errors from Blogger, WordPress Importer and in my next post, I’ll publish the errors of Intense Debate Importer-plugins and the solutions.
KeywordLuv is a great plugin, is to thank to commentators with a little SEO juice
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Good for you Gera. I would never try that by myself. In fact, when I went from wordpress.com to wordpress.org, I got someone to do it for me – and it STILL got messed up.
I wish I had had your “how to” post before. It would have helped a lot.
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Thanks Joanne! I didn’t know that you’ve had issues with the transition from WordPress.com to WordPress.org – wow. Well, at least my experience will help others, from now on
Gera would love you to read..Eat Sweets and Still Lose the Belly Fat
This is an interesting article. One client had this problem when importing from blogger to wordpress and I was able to solve it with the information provided here.
Twitter: sweetsfoods
Glad that this article was useful!
Gera would love you to read..Guide How to Import Blogger to WordPress with Error in Your Google Account and Can’t Authorize
Welcome back. I am printing this and looking it over with time on my hands. As you very well know I lost my blog of 13 months on blogspot and cannot get it back. The only think I can do is go to google and cashe the text of some of my posts. Thank God I saved my pictures. I am working on going to wordpress, but waiting for help from a friend. You were terrific in trying to help me and so many others. Hopefully I will get over my nightmare one of these days. I am still grieving the loss of Platanos#1, but will come back stronger with Platanos#2.
Thanks again for all and again, welcome back…you were so missed!
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Norma, I can’t believe you lost all your blogspot. Try waybackmachine.org and maybe you can recover some of your posts.
Have you made a blogger backup before applying the new domain?
But if you lost the blog before the backup, perhaps you can have some file with the posts on the cloud – somewhere.
Really hope that your new house on WP will be a complete success – if you need assistance in some way, just let me know.
Thanks to you Norma for the visit
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Hats off to your patience and dedication for your blog, Gera! These series are going to be really helpful to many out here. Bookmarked to be read soon. Take care.
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Thanks so much Sanjeeta! Yes I needed a lot of patience to be solving one by one all the issues that were appearing. Take care too
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Now that was a big post, but I suppose it would have to be to let everyone know in future how to sort out the problem, great to you back in the blogging chair again
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Totally, a long one! While I was doing, it was getting longer and longer, about 3000 words. So I decided to break it in 2 posts. It isn’t easy to resume several weeks of work in few paragraphs
Thanks for stopping by Karen!
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Great tips and info.
Cheers,
Rosa
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Thanks so much Rosa!
Bravo! You made it — and I guess that’s what counts in the end but why do they make it so difficult?!!!
Twitter: sweetsfoods
I wonder the same thing – why there is a lot of incompatibility between the systems? But the answer is easy – they don’t want you to move to the competition.
Really a bravo sounds great, after of all the work
Many thanks Joan!
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I’m so happy to see you back with us, Gera. I never made the switch from Blogger to WP; rather, I started from day one with a self-hosted WP site. I’m sorry to hear that it was such a tough change for you, but your expert experience and advice should be invaluable to others going through the same process. Well done!
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Barbara starting directly from self-hosted WP is the ideal situation, you don’t need to migrate and you’ve a top notch site.
But in general we learn in Blogger and when you see you want more, the transition is inevitable and had the costs I paid: weeks of delay and lost comments galore.
Many thanks for coming by!
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Gera, this is pretty technical to me
Glad that finally I can visit you again.
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I know Elra that this post is pretty technical; those were the steps I’ve done to be here
Thanks for stopping by!
Hi Gera:
What a wonderful post, explained so well and is easy to follow. I bet you are the first blogger to write on this topic. Because In my few years I did not read a post like this from blogger to word press.
Keep up the good work
Fran A
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Hi Fran,
I wasn’t my idea to have this long transition but it happened, therefore I need to help other bloggers showing all the things needed to convert it in a smooth process. Thank you if you find it valuable!
Welcome back, Gera! I never could have navigated through that turmoil! But it is grand to see you up and running.
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And you only read the first part of the migration process…yes it was a big mess. Thanks so much Claudia!
Hi Gera,
Glad to see you on the net again! Welcome back!
I have been using WordPress for about 3 years now and love it, I use the stand alone installation on all my blogs, gives me total control on customizations. If you need any help, or questions, you where to find me!
Bon appetit!
CCR
=:~)
Twitter: sweetsfoods
Hi Ryan!
With 3 years on it, you’ve lot of experience about WP. Yes WP is totally customizable, sometimes this can be tricky for newbies.
Thanks for your kind words and have a great delicious week.
It’s nice that you have this guide. Me? I just paid someone to do it for me..I wasn’t able to do it myself because I had a hard time.
Twitter: sweetsfoods
I didn’t know you paid – this is a valid option always.
When I’ve hard stopped that idea came on my mind, but those problems will there, no matter the people who do the transfer.
Glad to see you again, Gera! I just got back, too!
You are very techy! I would have never even figure this out. My gosh, if something happened to my site, I would not even know what to do…but now I know who to ask for advice! Haha! Thanks for the wonderful article, Gera!
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Hi Rylan,
I’m a techie apart of being foodie but it wasn’t, at all, my idea of spent that time fixing things
Hope you’ll not have any trouble with your site haha 
Thanks for coming by!
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I am glad to see you back online Gera!
I am looking forward to your next post on migrating Intense Debate comments. I am still trying to figure this out.
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Hi Kevin!
Yes I’m happy to be online in normal mood
I’ve used, to import Intense Debate comments, the plugins available but failed many times.
Solved at least the problem of the max limit size of the exported file.
I’ll end that post next week.
Hi Gera,
Nice to see you back
I’ve imported my Blogger to WP many months back but still not familiar with WP. Really happy that you post this informative details of WP. Can’t wait to read more… thank you
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Thank You! I know you tried WP and returned to Blogger. I takes some learning curve but worth the experience
Twitter: Lorraine
Welcome back Gera! I’m so glad that you’re back and sorry to hear about the problems that you had but as always you’re helping others out!
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There were unexpected issues that delayed all the process, but fortunately is ended – thanks for coming by Lorraine!
Great information…I’ve been toying with a transfer, but I’m not computer savvy at all.
Do you make house calls?
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If you’ve luck the same can be relatively straightforward, if not you’ve my tutorial
I don’t make house calls for now haha, but I can help if I know the answer
Thanks for stopping by Liz!
Gera…for some time I had wondered if you were going to resurrect from the cyber transition ashes. There you were visiting me this week to put a smile on my face. You were missed ;o)
Glad to read that you are slowly figuring all this out. I wish you all the best in surviving this cyber mayhem. If anyone can do it…you certainly will iron out all the rest of the reamining wrinkles.
See you soon and flavourful wishes,
Claudia
Gera, so glad you survived the transition! And how kind of you to share with others the details of how to do it!
Doh! I am so glad you are here, and you’re lookin’ good!
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Very detailed article on migrating from Blogger to WordPress. I wish I’ve found this 2 months ago.
Sorry about all the problems you experienced Gera! Glad to see you all moved and posting again! Thanks for showing us how you solved your problems – very helpful for people.
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Oh my, sounds like a PITA! I’m thinking of moving to wp too but it sounds so troublesome! Thanks for the info anyway, will be bookmarking this if I migration ever comes to mind again!
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I could never imagine that there could be so many hurdles in blogger wordpress importing. Thanks for share. Bookmarked this article for reference when I shift my blogger health blog to wordpress.
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Hi Gera,
Watching your progress on solving the myriad problems cropping up, I was really cheering for you! One thing about technical difficulties, after the pain comes the pleasure.
Excellent idea to share your learning in a 2-part guide so others can benefit.
Your blog is looking good (and as tasty as ever).
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Hi Vernessa,
Really they were a myriad of problems, but fortunately it is over
While I was writing it was getting longer and longer so in 2 different posts is more “edible” each and plus more SEO-friendly.
Glad you like it, it isn’t ended, but it’s a good start in the new WP!
Thanks for stopping by and for your kind words.
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Hey Gera,
I was faced with the same problem in December ’10. I did the same thing as you did. But the disadvantage of this is that you won’t get the right permalinks, so I had to use some other plugin to fix it (don’t remember the name of it). Anyway, thank you for sharing your story.
Jeevan Jacob John
Twitter: sweetsfoods
Hi Jeevan,
Oh you had the same issues, well great you had solved and all it’s ok by now.
Yes the permalinks are problem, first the structure to match the blogger-type. Then I installed a plugin to fix most of them and now it’s controlled by permalink finder.
I tried to expose my experience of the transition to help others with similar issues.
Thanks for coming by!
A nice tutorial for all those Blogger users who wants to switch to WP and getting error…Really a ice work
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Thanks Shaan! I wanted to show the alternatives when this error appears and change all your plans
Thanks for the nice blogging which able me to run WP properly without any mistake…
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This post have been so helpful for me.. I experienced the same problems as well.. thanks so much!!
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I am using wordpress as free version and I am looking forward this week that I can get a hosting panel to give my blogs freedom for what concept I wan to use.
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And what a guide it is, Gera!
Many of my readers ask me about migrating to WP; now I know where to send them.
Twitter: sweetsfoods
Ana tried to reflect my not-pleasant-unplanned experience when I did the move from Blogger to WP.
Hope that can be useful for people that are having these problems out there.
Thanks for coming by!
Thank you for sharing on how you were able to find away to import blogger to wordpress. I already bookmarked this page because I am sure that it will come in handy in the future as well as shared it to my friends.
Well, I am at this roadblock right now. I have been working on my migration for 24 hours. I have contacted my hosts online chat support 3 times! All I need now is to get my posts moved over. I just don’t know if I have it in me to do all this too! 9 months worth of posts is hard to walk away from. Glad I found this post… hopefully I can make my way through it and get it all in order.
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Twitter: sweetsfoods
Mimzy Wimzy sorry to hear that. I’ve passed that stage and I didn’t like either. Hopefully some of my experience can help a little.
The best of the luck to you!
Well. I’ve tried for 2 days & it still doesn’t work. Not sure what else to try to get my posts moved.
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I seriously just tried one more time, just in case, using a different browser… IT WORKED!!!!! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!!! I can finally relax a bit.
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Wow I know – you must be delighted
Great news!!
I recommend as browsers Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Avoid Internet Explorer, no matter if it’s the latest version or not.
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Now you’re on WordPress, you can already enter in the Commentluv plugin premium giveaway for WordPress, I’m having right now
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OMG!! I was about to give up on importing my blog … and I just read your post 2 minutes ago … and my blog was imported 1 minute ago!! You are a LIFE SAVER!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!
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You’re very welcome Ro!!
My experience with the transition from Blogger to WP is being useful – great!
I mentioned to you I was thinking about the move from blogger to WP. After reading all about your “MOVE”, I find it so complicate to go ahead with it. Better I wait the first step took you. WHat took you days, I am sure it will take me “months”.
If I happen to do I will let you know.
Regards,
Begoña
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It’s a good move to go from Blogger to WP. My case wasn’t the standard; there are easier ones that you can do it rapidly.
Anyway, I’m here if you want some advice about it
Ok so the blog I’m working on right now is a food blog and my friend got me the site and set it up on his server, etc etc, and it’s on WordPress. But it’s been slow going getting it set up since this is all new to me, and I’d like to work on another more personal blog about no real specific topics and was thinking about setting it up on Blogger (as recommended to me by a professional blogging friend). Should I just set it up on WordPress as well or would it be easier for me to set up and manage myself on Blogger? I wanted the food one on WordPress because I want it to be more of a professional site.
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Blogger is easier but if you think on long term, WordPress is the option. Is it worth the extra effort? Definitively! You start on Blogger and after few months / years you need to do a complete migration to WP and perhaps like mine.
Thanks for all your comments!
Hi Gera! I wanted to say thank-you for posting this! I referred back to it many times when I was migrating my blog and it was a life saver. I ended up importing to wordpress.com first too and then to .org. I would like to add a tip – when downloading your posts from wordpress.com you can chose what posts to download by date – in this way you can do it in small files. I did a half years posts at a time and ended up with 7 files. It went so smooth after that – no problem importing them to org. Thanks again!
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Twitter: sweetsfoods
Reeni, I didn’t know that you were migrating and this post was helpful to you! Good to hear that my experiences can assist to other people.
I see you’ve had many of the roads that I needed to take, sorry about that.
So interesting the tips about wordpress.com. If I had known that posts can be downloaded by date, the second part of my transition would have been much easier.
Happy to see that you’ve crossed the river and you’re safe on the WP arena
Thanks for your feedback!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
Your saved me with this
Twitter: sweetsfoods
Bedta happy to hear that
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Rather than migrate from Blogger to WP, I’d like to get some help upgrading from WP 3.05 to 3.2 or above. I’m afraid that my theme will cause difficulty. Where do you recommend I get some help?
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Twitter: sweetsfoods
Bill, having old WP versions is a potential big security problem.
My advice is to see how is supported your theme with the latest WP version (today the 3.3.1) If the same has positive reviews on newest versions, is great, but if not, well you’d think on other themes, or themes that support latest updates. I know is a hassle, but worst is having themes that cannot update to new WP versions and the hacking problem is much worst.
Of course, backup before install anything, and switch to the default theme Twenty Eleven. In that way, you know that the update was successful, without worrying about your theme beforehand.
So, the procedure will be:
Backup
Copy your custom codes or sidebars text (this save time later)
Check on WP repository the performance of all your plugins (if any have bad reviews on the newest WP version, wait several days to see if the problem continue)
Switch to the default theme Twenty Eleven
Deactivate all your plugins
Update
Activate plugins that have positive reviews
Activate your original theme
Hope these advices can help. Let me know how it goes!
I appreciate the quality content. Too many blogger write stuff that noone wants to read. Keep it goin.
Thank you so much for this, I kept the Error message saying that Blogger did not give me access. This working perfectly.
Thank Again.
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Thank you for this article! Not every day you see a post of such a quality and self-descriptiveness. Will bookmark it as I have a couple of friends suing Blogger.
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