I recently had a client who, for some reason, had a website that was composed of a static set of pages, a Blogger site that was set up to publish to the original site via FTP and there were two separate Blogger blogs set up for specific posts that should simply have been categories.

Importing posts from the two standard Blogger sites was easy. Just visit your WordPress dashboard, select Tools>Import. Next choose Blogger. You will be prompted to enter your Google credentials so that your WordPress install can communicate directly with your Blogger account. Your blogs will show up on a page, displaying the number of posts and comments in each one. Beside each blog name will be a “Magic Button” that will import everything into WordPress. You can set the author of these posts to existing WordPress users at this time.

The problem I had was that one of the Blogger blogs was set to publish to a directory on the client’s web server and the WordPress Importer could not handle this circumstance. So for this blog, I had to log into the Blogger account, go to the settings for the blog in question, then Export the posts as an XML file.

I found a link on a WordPress support page to a blogger2wordpress conversion tool that will accept the Blogger XML file and produce a WordPress WXR file for you to download. Now you can simply return to your WordPress Dashboard, go to Tools>Import then select WordPress. Click on the Choose File button and select the WXR file that was created by the blogger2wordpress tool.