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Importing Blogger into Expression Engine

posted at 2:22 am
on Nov. 1, 2005

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Here's a quick pointer for anyone trying to import from blogger into Expression Engine from pMachine.

First go to this site and watch the demo. Then, remember that if you want to import comments, you also need to change the comment time stamp (in addition to the entry time stamp). Then, use this template:

<Blogger>
TITLE: <BlogItemTitle><$></BlogItemTitle>
AUTHOR: <$>
DATE: <$>
-----
BODY:
<$>
-----
<BlogItemCommentsEnabled>
<BlogItemComments>
COMMENT:
AUTHOR: <$>
DATE: <$>
<$>
-----
</BlogItemComments>
</BlogItemCommentsEnabled>

--------
</Blogger>

Then, because Blogger doesn't let you get the person's URL separate from their name, and because it codes names differently depending on whether they're registered or not, run this search and replace:

AUTHOR: ((<a href="(.+)">(.+)</a>)|(<span class="anon-comment-author">(.+)</span>)|(Anonymous))

AUTHOR: \4\6\7\rURL: \3

If that was all gibberish to you, then you'd probably like most of the rest of what I write here, but since I just spent two hours figuring this all out, I thought I'd share.

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Comments

I am interested in your post even if it is a few years old.

I am a little confused by the second part of your research for the search an replace.

Where/when do I run this? DO I paste it into the Blogger "Template" text area below the other text you posted to grab the posts in addition to the comments?

Also after I follow the instructions for the export fo files from Blogger can I/ how do I restore my Blogger blog to keep running the way it always has prior to this export while I work on my new EE site?

Any inof you can share with me will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Josh

Posted by josh
at 8:21 pm on Jul. 21, 2008

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