Blogger Importing Guide
Posted on Friday, September 1, 2006 at 03:31PM
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Jamie Casalena
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Jamie Casalena
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Squarespace allows you to easily import all your information and settings from your Blogger account to your new Squarespace site.
Step 1 - Configure Post Display
In the Settings > Formatting section of your blogger interface:
- Set the Show setting to 500 posts.
- Set the Timestamp Format setting to mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss xx.
- Set the Time Zone setting to [GMT 0] Universal.
In the Settings > Comments section of your blogger interface:
- Set the Comments setting to Show.
- Set the Timestamp Format setting to mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss xx (here, too).
Step 2 - Configure Export Template
In the Template > Edit Current section of the weblog you'd like to export, replace your existing template code with the following code:
Note: If you are using the blogger beta — be sure to convert to a "Classic Template" before embedding the above template file.
<Blogger> AUTHOR: <$BlogItemAuthor$> DATE: <$BlogItemDateTime$> TITLE: <PostSubject><$BlogItemSubject$></PostSubject> PRIMARY CATEGORY: STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 ALLOW PINGS: 1 CONVERT BREAKS: 0 ----- BODY: <$BlogItemBody$> ----- <BlogItemComments> COMMENT: AUTHOR: <$BlogCommentAuthor$> EMAIL: URL: DATE: <$BlogCommentDateTime$> <$BlogCommentBody$> ----- </BlogItemComments> -------- </Blogger>
Then, click on the Preview button. On the page that pops up, View Source from within your internet browser, and copy
all code starting from the first AUTHOR: line, and ending with the last -------- line. Do not copy the HTML above the first AUTHOR: line.
Save this copied text to your hard drive in a plain text file (use notepad, or a similar plain text editing application). Note that if you are using notepad to save this file, ensure that you are saving using ANSI or UTF-8 encoding. Other encoding formats are not currently supported by Squarespace during import.
Save this copied text to your hard drive in a plain text file (use notepad, or a similar plain text editing application). Note that if you are using notepad to save this file, ensure that you are saving using ANSI or UTF-8 encoding. Other encoding formats are not currently supported by Squarespace during import.
Step 3 - Import to Squarespace
In the Data & Media > Data Backup & Restore > Journal Import section of your website manager, select the file you saved to
your hard disk containing old blog data, and select to import this file as a Movable Type import file. Click
import. You're finished.
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