Need help with custom urls in WordPress

I have a blogger blog and am moving it to wordpress. Anyway, I have some highly popular posts in Blogger and I would like to get the link juice that go toward the old urls to go to the current urls. So, I would like to use the same urls that I'm using in blogger to be the urls for those posts in WordPress.

For example a post I wrote in january 2005:

http://www.mysite.com/2005/01/i-wrote-an-amazing-post-today

and I would like that url (with the same date and everything) to be the same in wordpress as it was in Blogger.

How would I go about doing this?

 

1. In Blogger, go to your Settings > Basic > Blog Tools > Export Blog.

2. Click on Download Blog. It'll save as an .xml file.

3. Go to http://blogger2wordpress.appspot.com/ and find the .xml file that you exported from Blogger and click Convert. It'll save as a .xml file.

4. ***IMPORTANT - Browse to where you downloaded the file and RENAME THE EXTENSION AS A .WXR FILE***

4. In Wordpress, go to Tools > Import > Wordpress.



Tweak the permalink structure as in:

http://justinsomnia.org/2006/10/maintain-permalinks-moving-from-blogger-to-wordpress/


Almost done.

Some urls where "a" "the" are used may be truncated.
Edit it manually.

 

Doesn't seem to be working. I get http://www.mysite.com/?p=1

Is there a way I can do it one post at a time?

 

Did you do this:

/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

In your WP dashboard ... Under Permalinks.

 

The blogger/blogspot url will be like: www.domain.com/year/month/postname(truncated).html

The WP url can be made similar to this:www.domain.com/year/month/postname(not truncated).html


In your WP dashboard ... Under Permalinks.
custom -> /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html


Blogger truncates the url for some lenght. Wordpress doesn't.

To make WP url similar, we use:

http://justinsomnia.org/2006/10/main...-to-wordpress/

 

Nope, sure didn't. Wanna know why? Because I am dumb! I did it just now and it fixed the problem.

Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed post. Not so many people do that here!

 

This is definitely a useful post....with great content

 

keep it up. On DP my knowledge about web always increasing.....with people like.

It helps me to grow exponentially

 

Here is a perfect step by step tutorial to accomplish that.



Moving from Blogger to wordpress without loosing traffic and permalinks

 

Thanks for the link!

 

this is a very useful response. Thank you so much.

 

Attention. After you had installed the WordPress blog and imported the content from Blogger, go in the Settings tab, then click Permalink. Select the Custom structure and put this: %year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

Read more here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

 

Good link