Comments on: How to Forward from Blogger/Blogspot to your WordPress install http://ha17.com/2009/02/26/how-to-forward-from-bloggerblogspot-to-your-wordpress-install/ Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:59:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jeremy Edmiston http://ha17.com/2009/02/26/how-to-forward-from-bloggerblogspot-to-your-wordpress-install/comment-page-1/#comment-2440 Jeremy Edmiston Thu, 28 May 2009 17:21:00 +0000 http://hansanderson.com/?p=308#comment-2440 The way I used to have it set up was using Blogger to save files via ftp to my site, which at first was Joomla-based. Same issue though, I wanted my content in the database, not in random html files littered throughout the place. I first created a basic template that only had a meta-refresh to point people to my real site if they stumbled upon the blogger html that had been spewed out. the next task was writing the xml parser to get the posts from the xml file that blogger dumped on my box - this parsed the xml and consumed it - converting it to Joomla data. I since have changed methodologies, but a similar process holds still today, although we are not really using Blogger much at all, it was just a means to an end. Instead now I am using a wordpress plugin to pull from a special email address I have set up, this also maps the sender to the correct author in wordpress. So content can get to our site like so: Blogger -> FTP -> XML -> Custom Consumer -> Wordpress Database -> Our Site Email Client -> Custom Consumer -> Wordpress Database -> Our Site Cell Phone -> Email -> Custom Consumer -> Wordpress Database -> Our Site Wordpress XML -> Friendfeed -> Wherever Wordpress XML -> Facebook Twitter -> Custom Consumer -> Our Site Twitter -> Facebook As you can see there is a lot of stuff going different places, but it all boils down to the medium we use to generate content and where we want our content to go. The fun part is finding the right mix of mechanisms to get there. Looks like you have something that works for you - way to go... (my wife was very picky about process, but didn't know what or where she wanted stuff at first - still a little foggy I think) The way I used to have it set up was using Blogger to save files via ftp to my site, which at first was Joomla-based. Same issue though, I wanted my content in the database, not in random html files littered throughout the place.

I first created a basic template that only had a meta-refresh to point people to my real site if they stumbled upon the blogger html that had been spewed out.

the next task was writing the xml parser to get the posts from the xml file that blogger dumped on my box – this parsed the xml and consumed it – converting it to Joomla data.

I since have changed methodologies, but a similar process holds still today, although we are not really using Blogger much at all, it was just a means to an end. Instead now I am using a wordpress plugin to pull from a special email address I have set up, this also maps the sender to the correct author in wordpress.

So content can get to our site like so:
Blogger -> FTP -> XML -> Custom Consumer -> WordPress Database -> Our Site
Email Client -> Custom Consumer -> WordPress Database -> Our Site
Cell Phone -> Email -> Custom Consumer -> WordPress Database -> Our Site
WordPress XML -> Friendfeed -> Wherever
WordPress XML -> Facebook
Twitter -> Custom Consumer -> Our Site
Twitter -> Facebook

As you can see there is a lot of stuff going different places, but it all boils down to the medium we use to generate content and where we want our content to go. The fun part is finding the right mix of mechanisms to get there.

Looks like you have something that works for you – way to go… (my wife was very picky about process, but didn’t know what or where she wanted stuff at first – still a little foggy I think)

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