How to Import Your Entries and Comments From Blogger
Hi I'm Dave and am a member of the Quick Blog Development Team. Unfortunately today is my last day as I move on to other opportunities. However I couldn't leave without adding my $.02 about the product and give you a quick tutorial that posted on my own site back in December. If you're looking to move to Quick Blog from Blogger, this should help make the process a bit less painful.
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- Log into your Blogger account, then click on the Template tab.
- Copy all of the text (this is your existing template) and save it in notepad as a text file. This way, once you are finished with the export, you can reset your template back to the way it was.
- Now back in the Blogger interface, replace your template text with the following template:
<Blogger>
TITLE: <$BlogItemTitle$>
AUTHOR: <$BlogItemAuthor$>
DATE: <$BlogItemDateTime$>
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BODY:
<$BlogItemBody$>
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<BlogItemCommentsEnabled>
<BlogItemComments>
COMMENT:
AUTHOR: <$BlogCommentAuthor$>
DATE: <$BlogCommentDateTime$>
<$BlogCommentBody$>
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</BlogItemComments>
</BlogItemCommentsEnabled>
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</Blogger>
- Click the "Save Template Changes" button but do not republish yet.
- Click on the "Settings" tab and then go to the "Formatting" sub-menu option.
- Change the following settings on this page:
- Posts to show on the main page: You will need to change this to the number of posts you want to export. Blogger limits you to a maximum of 999 posts, so if you have more than that, you'll need to come up with a way to get the missing posts.....
- Date Header Format: Change this to the mm/dd/yyyy format.
- Timestamp Format: Change this to the mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM|PM format.
- Encoding: Make sure this is set to Universal (Unicode UTF-8).
- Convert line breaks: This one is up to you. If you choose no, Quick Blog will automatically replace hard-returns with "<br>" tags.
- Show Title field: Should be set to "Yes"
- Show Link field: Should be set to "No"
- Click the "Save Settings" button, but do not republish yet.
- Click on the "Comments" sub-menu option and set the "Comments Timestamp Format" to mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM|PM format.
- Click the "Save Settings" button, and when complete click on the "Republish Index Only" button.
- Click on the link to view your blog "in a new window".
- Right-click in the browser containing your exported data, and choose the "View Source" menu option (In Firefox it is "View Page Source")
- Save this file to your local machine.
- Return to your Blogger account, and reset your template back to the way it was using the file you saved in step 2. Click "Save Template Changes" and then "Republish Index Only".
- Open the file you saved in step 12.
- Delete all HTML code up to the first "TITLE: " Your file should now look something like this only repeated for every entry you have
TITLE: This is the title of my entry
AUTHOR: The author of this entry
DATE: 12/15/2005 01:07:00 PM
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BODY:
This is the body of my entry.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: fun guy
DATE: 12/18/2005 11:03:56 AM
Comment text displays here
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- Re-save the file and log into your Quick Blog Account.
- Navigate to Import Entries which is located in the Manage Blog menu.
- Choose the "Movable Type/TypePad" option and then click "Next Step".
- Browse to your export file, choose the status you would like to place each of your imported entries into, and check the box for "Import Comments" if you would also like to import the comments from your file.
- The import will commence. Once complete, you will be redirected back to the Dashboard page where you will be able to see your entries.
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How can I migrate a blog from Typepad to Quick Blog?
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Greetings,
Thanks for you question with regards to importing a Typepad blog into Quickblog.
Firstly we need to export your old content. Login to Typepad , Click on weblogs, then the name of your blog. To the left of the search box you should see import/export. Click on this item and scroll to the bottom of the screen. Right click on this link and save it to your system. Note this file contains only the entries,comments and trackbacks. Any embedded images / files that are hosted with typepad would have to be recreated within QuickBlog. .
Within Quickblog go to the manage blog, Import entries, select movable type/typepad and then chose if you want the items to be imported as a draft or published. Thanks for giving us a try .
Regards
John
Quick Blog Team
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