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Migrate from Blogger FTP to toendaCMS

With this method you can import your blogger blog to toendaCMS but you need a FTP server (at your hosting place for toendaCMS).

Currently is only PHP 5.0 or later supported ...


First you must configure your blogger account

You need to change a few settings in your blogger account.

Under settings -> publishing put your ftp server information.

Under formatting set the maximum number of items in the index page to 999 posts (if you where patient enoug to actually post 999 posts on blogger then your don't deserve drupal go somewhere else).

For the rest of the settings use

 Date Header Format
 *Day, Month DD, YYYY
 Timestamp Format
 *DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM
 Timezone
 *Your country
 Date Language
 *English (United States)
 Encoding
 *Universal (Unicode UTF-8)
 Enable Float Alignment
 *No

Under the settings -> archiving tab set

 Archive Frequency
 *No Archive 
 Enable Post Pages
 *Yes

blank the other fields.


Migration template

Under template use the following code as your blogger template.

 <x><blogger><blog>
 <post>
 <ItemAuthor><$BlogItemAuthor$></ItemAuthor>
 <ItemTitle><$BlogItemTitle$></ItemTitle>
 <ItemDateTime><$BlogItemDateTime$></ItemDateTime>
 <ItemBody><$BlogItemBody$></ItemBody>
 </post>
 <BlogItemComments>
 <comment>
 <CommentBody><$BlogCommentBody$></CommentBody>
 <CommentAuthor><$BlogCommentAuthor$></CommentAuthor>
 <CommentDateTime><$BlogCommentDateTime$></CommentDateTime>
 </comment></BlogItemComments>
 </blog>
 </Blogger>
 </x>

After saving the template publish the whole page. The save the page with the filename "blogger.xml" and copy it into the tmp folder in your toendaCMS installfolder.

Now you can use the internal import tool for your blogger account.


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