Possible to get URL's from Blogger to transfer correctly?
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Is it possible to ensure my URL’s from blogger still work after i transfer to WordPress?
I was told Yes by support (in chat), purchased a plan, transferred the articles & only 70% of my old URL’s still worked. Asked support why, and they said not all will transfer so i canceled & transferred everything back. One person says yes, the other says no. So who is right? Is there actually a way to do this?
Other info: I have my own domain. Everything else was working perfectly, even comments transferred over. I have near 50 posts, many of them are features on popular websites and i can not change the URL’s on them to reflect the new URL’s.
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Hi there,
Exactly what is not importing/working? What URLs are not working?
When you import from another service we try to rewrite any permalinks referring to your own site from the old URL to the new WordPress.com URL, but that depends on both the permalink structure of the original site, and on how the links appear in the export file you got from the other service. So it depends on factors we don’t control.
In some cases where the links aren’t rewritten correctly we might be able to update it manually on our end, but to do that I need to see an example of a link from your Blogger site that did not update correctly when you imported it.
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Thanks for getting back to me. About 70% of the links still worked, about 30% gave a 404 error. Here is a link that stopped working once i moved it. http://www.thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/some-secrets-about-rolls-royce-sweptail.html I quickly reverted back to blogger once i saw old links were not re-dirrecting properly.
I’d really like to use WordPress, but i can only if someone would be able to fix this. I would even be happy to pay extra if custom work is required.
Many of these links are posted on social media, forums and other locations so i can not have them lose functionality.
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Thanks for getting back to me. About 70% of the links still worked, about 30% gave a 404 error. Here is a link that stopped working once i moved it. http://www.thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/some-secrets-about-rolls-royce-sweptail.html I quickly reverted back to blogger once i saw old links were not re-dirrecting properly.
I’d really like to use WordPress, but i can only if someone would be able to fix this. I would even be happy to pay extra if custom work is required.
Many of these links are posted on social media, forums and other locations so i can not have them lose functionality.
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The link you gave is for your Blogger site. I need an example of that link on your WordPress.com site, to check what went wrong when you imported it to WordPress.com.
But looking at that link the most likely cause is that the permalink structure doesn’t match. WordPress.com site use a permalink structure of domain/year/month/day/post-slug, while your Blogger site is configured to domain/year/month/post-slug, and the blogger links end in .html as well which WordPress.com permalinks don’t do.
Please check in your Blogger settings if you can change the permalink structure to match that used on WordPress.com, and then try a new export file.
I can empty your WordPress.com site for you before you import to make sure existing content doesn’t interfere with the new import. This will remove ALL content on the site, though, and cannot be reversed, so I’ll need you to confirm if I should do that.
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Hello, I do not have the link to the WordPress site since i have migrated all info back to blogger. However, i believe it was something like the following.
http://www.thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/28/some-secrets-about-rolls-royce-sweptail/
Here is the working blogger one for comparison again. http://www.thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/some-secrets-about-rolls-royce-sweptail.html
(changes are in the date structure and the ending of the URL’s).
I thought it was the permalink structure as well, however, i’m positive that some with the same structure (YYYY/MM) transferred over properly after clicked & landed on a url with (YYYY/MM/DD).
Blogger does not allow a change in the date part of the URL. I was hoping WordPress would have this option, especially considering the plan i chose was $100, and blogger costs $0). What are my options?
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If the information is no longer on your WordPress.com site there’s no way for me to check into this. As I’ve said before, I need to see the actual link on your site to even begin to investigate this. Both links you gave here go to your Blogger site, so are useless in helping me investigate an issue on your WordPress.com site.
As I said above, we try to rewrite the permalinks from other services, but if the export file provided by the other service does not provide that data in the correct format our importer isn’t able to rewrite it. In that case there’s not much we can do.
There is no way to edit the permalink structure on WordPress.com. This is a software restriction, not a feature. Adding an upgrade plan adds additional features to your site. It does not change how the software works.
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Hello, Here is the link on our wordpress as it currently is (no longer linked to our domain). https://thefeeloffast.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/some-secrets-about-the-rolls-royce-sweptail/
I’m still curious about the issue because 70% of the links worked just fine. Just 30% did not. The structure on those that worked was the same as those that did not. There has to be a reason for that. Was it the inability of wordpress to re-write it? If so, why these links and not the others?
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I don’t see any links in that post. Do you mean the link for the post itself still went to blogger instead of WordPress.com? In that case it might have been a simple browser caching issue. But the fact that the WordPress.com link exists at all means it was rewritten. The problem appears that it was still being redirected, but with the domain now pointing back at Blogger there’s no way to verify that.
As for why some links inside posts sometimes don’t get rewritten: sometimes export files contain errors, or there’s some weird HTML in the content that confuses the exporter on that end or the importer on this end. We can usually fix those up manually, but it depends on exactly what went wrong.
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Hello, no, the link went to the word press site with the 404 error.
Is there any way to get the Premium version as a trial for 1 week? I can’t add my domain to try again without it. I’d like to try again and see if we can resolve the 404 errors. Also, can you completely empty my wordpress.com site for me?
Thanks again for your help.
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I can’t add my domain to try again without it.
So you switched your domain over to your WordPress.com site BEFORE trying the import? That could explain why things didn’t work.
The export file you get from Blogger references your domain. If you export your content, then point the domain to a different site, the export file is referencing content at an address that no longer exists. You should only switch your domain to WordPress.com AFTER the import process has completed, including the media files which are only moved across after the initial import.
You don’t need either a Premium Plan or a connected domain to do an import on WordPress.com, so please try importing your content without making any changes to your domain on Blogger.
Let me know if I should empty your WordPress.com site, http://thefeeloffast.wordpress.com/, first so it imports to a clean slate. Note that content removed from a site in this way cannot be restored later.
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Yes, please empty my wordpress site completely.
I ran the export on blogger & received an XML file before doing anything.
I do need a premium plan. Without it, how am i supposed to add my custom domain to WordPress? And switch over the DNS records from blogger to wordpress?
Don’t forget, the problem i am having with URL’s not working (404 error on about 70% of them) after i add my own custom domain, & point the DNS records to wordpress. So, is there a way to try a premium plan for a week to see if we can work this out?
If you can do this i can export in blogger. Import in WordPress. Add my custom domain on wordpress. Switch my DNS records to wordpress then see if we can resolve the 404 errors with the URL’s in question. Thanks again for helping.
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Okay, I’ve emptied your site. Please try importing the Blogger file again.
I do need a premium plan. Without it, how am i supposed to add my custom domain to WordPress?
You don’t need a Premium Plan to do the import. You can switch over your domain AFTER the import completes, as I explained in my last reply.
We can run a test with the domain mapping, but we can’t do anything until the import has completed.
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Hello, I just completed the import. Now, how can i ensure my existing links will work before switching over my domain (which requires a premium plan).
Just a refresher. My site, http://www.thefeeloffast.com/ is currently on blogger. The wordpress site is https://thefeeloffast.wordpress.com/
Thanks again.
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Okay, some internal links in the posts were not rewritten, for example, the links in the content of the post, here: https://thefeeloffast.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/the-dodge-challenger-srt-demon-comes-with-driving-lessons/
That is what I’ve needed to see this whole time. The example post you gave me earlier, https://thefeeloffast.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/some-secrets-about-the-rolls-royce-sweptail/, does not contain any internal links in the post body, so it couldn’t show me the problem.
I can ask a developer to rewrite those links to point to the new WordPress.com address. I’ll let you know when that’s done.
But otherwise, if your images were all imported correctly, and they’re all linking to the WordPress.com site, it’s now safe to switch your domain over.
Please check through the images on your site to make sure they’re all imported and their links are pointing to us rather than Blogger, and once you confirm I can put in the request to have the internal links updated.
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The images are OK. I just paid for a premium plan & moved the DNS records. The following is a list of links that used to work, that no longer do. Thanks again in advance.
NOTE:
Top = Link that used to work.
Bottom = Current URL of that post.https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/cars-that-are-likely-to-have-over-200K-miles.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/02/which-cars-are-likely-to-have-over-200k-miles/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/a-vending-machine-for-ferraris-lamborghinis-and-porches.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/16/a-vending-machine-for-ferraris-lamborghinis-and-porsches/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/bentley-makes-bentayga-for-falconry-enthusiast-community.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/18/bentley-makes-a-bentayga-for-the-falconry-enthusiast-community/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/Jaguar-Is-Ready-For-You-To-See-The-XE-SV-Project-8-Sort-Of.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/26/jaguar-is-sort-of-ready-for-you-to-see-the-xe-sv-project-8/http://www.thefeeloffast.com/2017/04/dodge-demon-will-have-840-horsepower.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/04/12/the-dodge-demon-will-have-840-horsepower-livestream-summary/http://www.thefeeloffast.com/2017/04/the-mercedes-concept-sedan-looks-boring.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/04/19/the-mercedes-concept-a-sedan-looks-boring/http://www.thefeeloffast.com/2017/04/the-newest-ever-bmw-is-very-expensive-m4.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/04/23/the-newest-ever-bmw-is-an-very-expensive-m4/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/04/the-civic-type-r-is-fastest-fwd-car-around-the-Nurburgring.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/04/25/the-civic-type-r-is-the-fastest-fwd-production-car-around-the-nurburgring/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/everything-you-need-to-know-about-2018-McLaren-720S.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/04/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2018-mclaren-720s/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/you-could-own-one-of-michael-schumacher-f1-carss.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/10/you-could-own-one-of-michael-schumachers-f1-cars/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/an-android-infotainment-system-in-your-car-might-not-be-a-good-dea.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/17/an-android-infotainment-system-in-your-car-might-not-be-a-good-idea/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/automakers-using-takata-airbag-inflator-agree-to-pay-553-million.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/19/automakers-using-the-takata-airbag-inflator-agree-to-pay-553-million/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/some-sweet-pictures-of-bmw-concept-8.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/26/some-sweet-pictures-of-the-bmw-concept-8/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/bmw-just-keeps-on-giving-with-new-m8-and-m8-gte.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/27/bmw-just-keeps-on-giving-with-the-new-m8-and-m8-gte/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/some-secrets-about-rolls-royce-sweptail.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/28/some-secrets-about-the-rolls-royce-sweptail/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/the-mercedes-amg-gt3-edition-50-is-here-and-it-is-gone.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/30/the-mercedes-amg-gt3-edition-50-is-here-and-its-gone/http://www.thefeeloffast.com/2017/06/the-rolls-royce-phantom-8-is-on-way.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/06/02/the-rolls-royce-phantom-8-is-on-the-way/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/06/porsche-is-now-in-honey-business.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/06/04/porsche-is-now-in-the-honey-business/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/06/bid-on-first-ever-production-civic-r.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/06/07/bid-on-the-first-ever-production-civic-r/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/06/richard-hammond-crashes-rimac-concept-1.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/06/10/richard-hammond-crashes-the-rimac-concept-1/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/06/here-is-sneak-peak-at-the-fisker-emotion.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/06/12/here-is-a-sneak-peak-at-the-fisker-emotion/https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/06/are-3d-printed-options-in-future-of-car-buying.html
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/06/13/are-3d-printed-options-in-the-future-of-car-buying/ -
Yes, the top link is not supposed to work any more. As I’ve explained already in this thread, WordPress.com uses a different permalink structure, so on WordPress.com your post is no longer at https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/cars-that-are-likely-to-have-over-200K-miles.html, it’s now at https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/05/02/which-cars-are-likely-to-have-over-200k-miles/
There is no way to make the old link work, but where you’ve linked to that post in another post we can rewrite the link so it points to the new URL instead.
Any old links from Blogger that has been shared online will no longer work, however. That’s what happens if you change the URL or the permalink structure of a website.
Shall we proceed fixing up the links appearing in your posts that aren’t working? Or is it a deal breaker that the blogger links themselves cannot also still work?
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Okay, I’ve asked a developer if it’s possible to rewrite those links for you. Looking at it again it looks like it might be tricky, though, as the WordPress.com permalinks differ from the Blogger permalinks in several aspects:
http://www.thefeeloffast.com/2017/04/dodge-demon-will-have-840-horsepower.htmlvs
https://thefeeloffast.com/2017/04/12/the-dodge-demon-will-have-840-horsepower-livestream-summary/So this might not be a simple fix as I’d thought at first. But I’ll let you know what our developers say.
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