My first challenge here at my new home was to import all my old posts from blogger to WordPress.  WordPress can import blogs from many different blog hosting tools: posts, comments, blogrolls, everything.  But they have not caught up with the newly revised blogger.com blogs yet.  The current distribution of WordPress does not support imports from the new blogger.  And my blog had already been upgraded!

The support forums revealed a hack plugin that uses a sites RSS feed to import any feed into WP.  This hack is pretty limited since you don’t capture comments and various other types of blog content.  But hey, it beats not importing at all so I tried it.  Luckily I could not get the plugin to work.  I say luckily because it forced me to dig a little deeper into the fora where I found a different style of hack.

The “commercial” or hosted version of WP is found at wordpress.com.  That site lets you sign up for a free blog hosted by WP.  They support imports from the new blogger.  I signed up, imported my old stuff… flawlessly.  From there I was able to import my worldpress.com blog here.

Now my challenge is that I have 500+ old posts that I have to sift through, one by one, to determine if I want to keep it, and what category to file it under…  Dull work ahead…