I have now imported all the posts created in the past few years created using blogger . These were ftp’d to my site hosted by domain direct. I couldn’t do it the import direct from my old site, so I republished the 697 posts onto a blogger hosted site and then imported them to this WordPress site using the integrated import utility.
I then used the Advanced Permalinks plugin from John Godley which neatly allowed me to adjust permalink structure on the 697 posts imported to be identical to their previous blogger structure.
Using John’s other plugin, Redirection, then allowed me to use a permanent redirection from my old url’s to the new wordpress ones . I can now use html pages or wordpress pages on this site and the users including Google can’t spot the difference from the old site.
Redirection also allows me to automatically correct any 404 (page not found) errors that my users might get, by sending them straight to the home page – whilst also letting me know of the precise error – so I can correct it with a 302 (permanent page redirection).
Its all looking good, so far, with no help from the folks at rentacoder either :-).
