Hello DP Users, I am having a problem while importing my blogger posts to Wordpress. Here is the error message that I receive when I grant permission to Wordpress to access my Google account When I click on authorize button the following error message appears. The page you have requested cannot be displayed. Another site was requesting access to your Google Account, but sent a malformed request. Please contact the site that you were trying to use when you received this message to inform them of the error. A detailed error message follows: The site “http://environmentabout.com †has not been registered. I don't know why I am getting this error because I had already imported all my posts from blogger to wordpress with same domain and same importer. I deleted my posts while upgrading to wordpress 3.0.4 from 3.0.3 because I wanted to start with fresh content as I had changed the permalink settings and other setting so many times. I have tried to search for the solutions but couldn't find any solution for this problem in Wordpress support forum. My domain is already registered with Google apps and Google webmaster tools. Then why I am getting this message that the site has not been registered? Yesterday I deleted my whole data base and created a fresh data base to get rid of cache thinking that this might resolve the issue, but it's still showing me the same error message. Please help me to find a solution as I can't afford to start with a new blog.
I can only think of two things off-hand. One, your Google account for Blogger thinks the importer is a duplicate request. Look for options in your Blogger account settings to deny access to the importer, then try again. Two, maybe the importer already thinks the posts have been imported and don't need to be again. You can try uninstalling and reinstalling the importer and see it that might work. The uninstall may not get rid of any options data, so you may have to go into phpMyAdmin and look for the option data and delete it from the database. Caution here, don't go poking around in there if you are not sure of what you are doing.
Try this solution from support at Wordpress: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cannot-import-from-blogger-1/page/2?replies=46#post-335822 One caveat is the file size may be too large. If your Blogger blog is small, you should have no problems. Read through the rest of that forum posting for other guys in the same boat and how they got around it. Good luck!
As I have already written in my question, I had already imported posts from blogger. But then I deleted them due to changes in settings and change in permalink structure so may times. I wanted to clear the cache and wanted to start with fresh content without any history of changes. I then upgraded to wordpress 3.0.4 from 3.0.3. But when I tried to import again, it started giving me the above error. The most strange thing is that, I registerd the same domain with google apps also. Is there any difference between http://www.environmentabout.com and http://environmentabout.com (one without www)??
Ok... I found an alternative. I opened an account at wordpress.com and registered a free blog. I then tried to import my blogger posts from there and it worked perfectly. From wordpress.com, I have exported the XML file that supports wordpress import. But here is also one confusion. There is an option in wordpress.com dashboard to upload blogger Exported XML file but there is no such option in my Wordpress.org control panel to import a blogger exported XML file. Why is it so?? Also some other options that are available in wordpress.com and not available in wordpress.org dashboard. And the question that is most important: If I follow the above procedure to import my posts from Blogger>Wordpress.com>Wordpress.org then how do I redirect my blogger blog to new domain at wordpress.org??
Per the link I posted previously, it had instructions on how to do it. You first export from Blogger as XML, use an app to convert it to WordPress format, then import as a WordPress xml file. Those people had the same problem you have when trying to do it only from WordPress. And yes, there is a difference between www.example.com and example.com, they are two different domains. In Google Webmaster Tools you can choose which to use, and have the other resolve to it.
Getting only posts from blogger to wordpress is not an issue for me. I know about the google application that converts the blogger XML file to wordpress supported format. The problem is 301 redirect from blogger to wordpress. If I choose the converter and then upload that file to wordpress, can I do 301 redirect from blogger to wordpress. What I know is to perform this 301 redirect I must import the blog posts directly from blogger so that my data base knows what article permalink was changed to what permalink in wordpress? Would be helpful if you can suggest me a way to perform 301 redirect in blogger following the above method of import!!! So that I do not lose the search engine ranking and Google juice. Means when someone clicks on my blogger links, he should automatically be redirected to corresponding entry in wordpress.
I am sorry, I misunderstood you. Thought you were still having problems importing your posts. Is your Blogger Url of the variety http://blogname.blogspot.com ??? If so, then you cannot do any re-directs. If the Blogger blog was ran under your domain http://blogname.com, then you can do all of your re-directing in an .htaccess file in the domain root. If you have the http://blogname.blogspot.com naming scheme, then your best bet is to rework your template to link to the new blog. You can change the heading links to point to the new blog on your archives instead of internally.
There are some tweeks available following which I can redirect my http://theartofstart.blogspot.com to http://www.environmentabout.com at wordpress. But the problem is, to do that I need to import all my posts directly from blogger to wordpress so that when I redirect my blogger blog, wordpress knows where is the original article from blogger lies and what permalink structure was assigned to it. I doubt if this can happen if I upload the tranformed export file from the converter.
I see. You seem to be in a pickle. Maybe if you delete the WordPress account, and start over. I don't know what else to recommend right now.
I did that also. I have reinstalled my data base and wordpress software. But this problem seems to be linked to Google. Google isn't permitting my wordpress account to have access to my blogger account.