Redirecting from Blogger to WordPress

Published July 11, 2005 | By Owen Barder

I recently migrated my Dad's blog from Blogger to WordPress.

To transfer the content, I used Andy Skelton's import tool, which seems to have worked perfectly, especially when combined with Catstutorials' illustrated guide. Many thanks to both of these.

I managed to find a way to get Blogger to redirect to the correct post on the new WordPress site. Here is how I did it.

First, I made a backup of the Blogger template.

Second, replace the Blogger template with this (you'll need to change this to match your domain):

<html>
<Blogger>
<MainOrArchivePage>
<script language="javascript">
    var blog_root="http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/";
    document.location.href=blog_root;
</script>
</MainOrArchivePage>
<ItemPage>
<script language="javascript">
    var process_page="http://www.yourdomain.com/from_blogger.php";
    var newpage=process_page;
    var oldlink="<$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$>";
    newpage+="?p="+oldlink;
    newpage=newpage.toLowerCase();
    document.location.href=newpage;
</script>
</ItemPage>
</Blogger>
</html>

And then put the following PHP file into www.yourdomain.com/from_blogger.php:

require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/blog/wp-blog-header.php');
$title = $_GET['p'];
$vars = explode('/', $title);
$num = count($vars) – 1;
$filename = $vars[$num];
$slug = str_replace(".html", "", $filename);
$SQL = "SELECT posts.* FROM $wpdb->posts AS posts WHERE posts.post_name = '$slug' LIMIT 1";
$posts = $wpdb->get_results("$SQL"); if ($posts)
    { foreach ($posts as $post) {
        $found_link = = get_permalink($post->ID); }
    } else {
        $found_link = "http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/";
    }
header("Location: $found_link");

It works for me …

Update: thanks to Tom Sherman for correcting my typo. 

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Owen Barder is the Europe Director at the Center for Global Development. He writes here about development, economics, politics, computers, running, and anything else that interests him. He also hosts Development Drums.


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