Since I had worked on a project involving the Atom API, I already have all of the data on my local computer from my blogger.com account. WordPress provides a few standard APIs over XML-RPC. This is great because I also have some code laying around to interface with it.
I’ve gotten all of my posts exported into a test environment at home. I have been noticing that the dates are not always rite. I’ve also had problems navigating pages in the month view of the archives. It keeps wanting to go to the main index page rather then the month archive.
I spent most of today working on categories. Since I had tagged most of my posts with Technorati tags, I was able to use them to determine what category the post should go in. I got a little carried away with the categories and now I’m trying to consolidate them into more generic categories to compact the list.
Tags: WordPress, Atom API, XML-RPC, Exporting, Categories
I hope you will consider writing a guide for people who want to move from blogger to wordpress. At lease put together a list of links you have used in this process. I am sure a lot would find this useful.
So how much more time before we get to see the new blog set-up.
I dunno. I’m more concerned in making sure everything goes into categories that they belong in. Most are ending up in the wrong place. As far as links go, I only found one that talks about it, but i didn’t take there approach.
WordPress has a blogger-import script already, but i’m just going to the distance with a few adjustments.