Moving domain from Blogger to WP changes URL

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by GPS Mapper, May 23, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hi all-

    I recently moved a blog (already under my own domain) from Blogger to WP. The URL for every post changed in the process. Is there some way I could have avoided this?
     
    GPS Mapper, May 23, 2006 IP
  2. dshah

    dshah Well-Known Member

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    Use the post-slug to manually edit the name of article file. Also you can use permalinks structure to fit URL format (/year/month)

    Its lot of manual work (post-slug) but works
     
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  3. GPS Mapper

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    Thanks dshah. It's a young blog with only 50 posts or so. OTOH, it wouldn't be that time consuming. OTOH, I don't have many links out there to specific posts. May not be worth it.
     
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    sketch Well-Known Member

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    Depending on how your blogger links are set up, using WP's permalink function may be enough. If you give me your blogger URL I could give it a look.
     
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    fsmedia Prominent Member

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    Why not just set your permalinks in Wordpress to the same as it was in Blogger? It should work just the same
     
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    For one thing, I didn't know that was an option. But the real reason is that I made an assumption (my bad) that it would leave the old URL's in place, and only implement the new structure on new posts. I'm glad I didn't have lots of links publicized.
     
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    Blogger has some algorithm to truncate your post title while converting to file name. So if you have long post title like "This is my post Title" it will not be exact "this-is-my-post-title.html". But wordpress uses post title as exact slug.

    So after migration, one might have some old blog URLs not working. Those needs to be manually corrected using wordpress post slug parameter for post.

    Thats from my experience of migrating blog from blogger to wordpress.
     
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    That URL structure is a piece of cake :) use this code /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ under "Custom" in your Permalinks Options page and you'll be in business.
     
    sketch, May 24, 2006 IP