I started this morning at 6:30 am and finally got it imported at 9:30am. I am on a fresh 2.04 WordPress theme with a modified theme template. WordPress makes it ridiculously easy to start the import process, but that doesn’t mean it will work the first time.

The first attempt imported 5 posts. The second attempt 17 posts. I started searching google for help but all I found were a lot of sites with crazy instructions on how to export and FTP to my new domain. Way too much hassle.

I had a hunch that the problem might be related to how my monthly archived posts on blogger were displaying. I had used a mod that would display the archived posts in a drop down list instead of listing out each month on the site. I changed that back to the default behavior and tried again. Ahh, success!

The third time the script ran as expected and all my posts imported correctly. After a quick look around I was satisfied. It took another few hours to tag the posts to the correct categories but overall it was a nice transition.

WordPress is a great piece of software. I highly recommend it.

It is long overdue but it’s finally happening. Blogspot is good for what it does but I missed the flexibility that a WordPress blog can offer.