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By Jeremy | June 27, 2006
Apparently inquiring minds want to know. So here's the low-down, from an IM exchange earlier today with
Tony.
tony: how did your blog get jacked?
me: blah
fooey
argh
i've been battling to get wordpress' import tool to work. reloaded it several times. all kinds of stuff. bottom line, it won't work for me
tony: computers - and i chose to do this for a living. lol
me: so i decided to ftp everything from blogspot to new site
tony: oh wow
me: changed a setting in blogger that apparently opened my genxcel.blogspot.com up for the highest bidder and voila
tony: oh dang
me: 3-4 hrs later it was gone
tony: that sucks
me: yep
tony: that is terrible
me: still have the old site. its at http://jeremydelrio.blogspot.com
tony: aaah. so you still have the posts
me: problem is all the permalinks back to genxcel
tony: oh right. oh man
me: i have almost 1100 posts
tony: thats a nightmare
me: and frequently linked back, plus 30-40 sites linked to genxcel
tony: yuck
me: then on sat, trying to fix everything, i jacked a wordpress setting so that i couldn't even log in for 3-4 hrs to my new blog. had to learn msql database stuff to manually change the setting via my host. i'm in over my head! HAHAH
tony: that sounds terrible
me: it's been a sordid tale, i tell ya!
tony: oh man... well let me know if you need some help - i dont know any of that word press stuff though
me: i finally figured out a reasonably efficient way to import the original posts manually, but it's still too long and tedious. and i'm losing the comments. actually, not losing them, just not importing them.
tony: how are the individuall posts structured -as individual html files?
me: blogger archives them monthly and each one is its own html page as well
UPDATE: I'm still trying to get Blogger to give me my old domain back. Anyone know how to get them to respond to my inquries?
Any other tips on how to get the Wordpress Import tool to function? The problem I'm still having is that it stops after importing one post at a time.
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