We just moved over from Blogger to Wordpress and in the process had a chance to give Wordpress’ new(ish) built-in Blogger Import a try and well it doesn’t work all that well out of the box, at least on Wordpress 2.7.1 it doesn’t.

A few changes needed to be made for it to work, hopefully these save someone some hassle:

1. If you’re using a custom domain in Blogger, then you need to turn that off first. To do so login to Blogger, click on Settings and then Publishing and then “Switch to: blogspot.com (Blogger’s free hosting service)”.
2. Next a small piece of code is incorrect in the tool and needs to be fixed (serious pain in the butt that Wordpress developers didn’t test this, but oh well). To fix the problem FTP to your server and in your wordpress install go to /wp-admin/import/ in there you’ll find a file named blogger.php. Open that up and then find the line that reads:
   $parser = xml_parser_create_ns();
   and change it to $parser = xml_parser_create();
   Save it.
3. Now go back into Wordpress and try the Blogger Import again. For me that fixed everything and here we are today.

Hopefully this helped for you as well…

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