This is very useful as I was searching for a guide that used the new Blogger and was reliant on old coding.

Your guide is great for people migrating from blog.blogspot.com/post.html to blog.wordpress.com/post but I’ve used a custom domain on Blogger, and still with that domain now hosted on wordpress.org.

For about 18 months of content, Google now has duplicate content for, say:
http://www.ariwriter.com/2008/10/5-ways-social-media-is-like.html
http://ariwriter.com/2008/10/5-ways-social-media-is-like/

I set up your redirect code in my Blogger template… but the html file is coming across as a 404 error, which I’ve customized for the time being. I know I can change the Wordpress permalink setting to be html, but I don’t want that for new posts.

Am I making sense? How can your above guide work for custom domains?

While I can’t give you much advice on a plugin for blogger to blogger redirects, I can give you some advice on how to set up your new blog. For one, get a custom domain. Publish on the custom domain so that if you do decide to publish on another platform in the future (typepad, wordpress, whatever), then you can redirect people easily and with no fuss. Trust me on that one.

I have a blog on blogger, over 3 years old, with close to 500 posts.

I would like to export all posts & comments to a new blog on blogger (different address obviously).

I have worked out the first set of kinks, which is that if you create the new blog, then export from old blog to a file, then import the file into the new blog - all new permalinks will be totally different from the original, old permalinks.

This creates a major problem if you want to in some way be able to redirect each and every individual post.

The process you need to follow to create identical (for the most part, a few will be a bit different, but not every one!), is to instead, export your old blog to a file. Then, from the blogger dashboard, create a new blog, go the advance settings, and import from the file into the new blog you are creating. This will make most of the permalinks identical.

Now, for my question to you. Obviously, your great widget does not work on blogger to blogger redirects. I would love to have a widget that will work for my situation - a blogger to blogger redirect for individual posts. Any help you could provide would be fantastic!

Thanks!

from your individual redirection code
timestamp = timestamp[2]+’/'+timestamp[0]+’/'+timestamp[1];
var new_page = new_domain + ‘/’ + title + ‘/’;;

in order to adapt my WP settings, i remember i have to tweak it to look like

timestamp = timestamp[2]+’/'+timestamp[0];
var new_page = new_domain + ‘/’ + timestamp + ‘/’ + title + ‘.html’ ;;

see the difference? this is for my template case, which works out absolutely fine for me.
this was the solution from my recent comment, since we only need the year and the month, excluding the day of the month. and considering that WP permalinks does not end with .html by default, unless you explicitly define it from WP permalink settings.

also, there should be NOFOLLOW from here for google bot not to follow existing link from old blogsite even if the blogspot redirects, google bots are smart, they can even try to crawl and see files that are not even declared from any of your site pages, blog posts or links. so i have decided to include it here as well to look like

it is also advisable to only display a single post from old blogspot, to make the loading and redirection a little bit faster. secondly, your last blogspot post should refer to your new domain informing blog followers BEFORE the migration and not AFTER the migration, either atleast via post or feeds. third, you should have a customized friendly 404 WP page only as a fallback to NOT Found pages that is. your issue of double redirection to subdomain can also be solved by checking referrer value via your site index PHP page, i believe that would be less than 10 lines of PHP code inside index.php file, atleast this way, you remove 2nd redirection via subdomain. there are a lot advantage of doing this, one is that WP’s index.php statistics hits stats doubles by nature since it is an algorithm by WP that calls index.php and header.php as the kernel for all WP site operation - compared to subdomain redirecting to sunfolder (the hits from subdomain give you nothing but redirection that is). you could be needing this for any site stat reports requested by ad clients. there are lots more to add, but don’t wanna fill up the spaces around here.

i think this is all it, i have to watch the US Open now. muller is playing against federer, this young man is a promising tennis beast too.

hope it helps. cheers

one thing that i noticed is that, there are permalinks from blogger that is different from wordpress permalinks specially longer permalinks, which is actually being parsed and shortened somehow by wordpress algorithm, i guess it was a permalink limit from WP, i tested it with the latest WP and the older version before WP2.6. mind you as i keep on forgetting things easily.

one good thing about redirection from blogger to wordpress is that WP does not care if you have htpp://vertito.blogspot.com/2008/8/abc-efg.html from blogger and you have http://www.ilovetux.com/2008/08/abc-efg.html from wordpress (did you see the difference there?), this is where wordpress works best. But WP fails on longer blogger permalinks.

if you may, the code you have to redirect individual posts is only around 90% to 96% effective based on my redirection rigid tests, i did some small tweaks from the code to make it 100%. unfortunately, i cannot recall that i have backup copy of my template considering that the tweak was simple for me, it’s just a matter of redirection debugging, sorry about that.

then finally, i moved back domain to blogger hosting, as i weight blogger platform with more advantage from my level of perspective, mind you.

would you be so specific to tell me which individual blogger posts for example does not properly redirect to your new domain? i could give it a try for you and post the solution here, free of charge

hope this helps.

Hey, let me know what those additional tweaks are so that I can update the guide. I want to keep this thing as relevant as possible.