Earlier today it was discovered by one of our bloggers that Wordpress is having issues importing from blogger. Publius Forum attempted an import from his Blogger blog and it looks like Blogger has server issues that cause timeouts when uploading post content into Wordpress. When the posts that did make it to Wordpress finally came in, the archives were completely wrecked and posts were stuffed into months and dates that were not at all anywhere close to accurate.

I haven’t been able to pinpoint the exact cause of the problem, but from what I can find it looks like an XML/Wordpress Script/Blogger Server combination that somehow isn’t working together during the import. I found a comment in Wordpress support that said if you disable your XML/Feed in Blogger before the import you’ll have more luck.

We ran two tests on this today and both of ours went through fine. But it was clear that the import failed when Warner Todd Huston attempted it. In fact, it even took out his template on Blogger for about a half an hour leaving his Blogger blog down during that period of time.

Until we can figure out what is going on, we ask that all bloggers using the built in import script in the Wordpress Admin panel make sure you back up your blogger template and temporarily disable your site feeds.

Hopefully this will allow Blogger posts to be imported with few or no problems to deal with.

If anyone has had dealings with this sort of issues please drop me a line ASAP.

Thanks,
Eric
eric AT conservablogs DOT com

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