In the process of this mess I found out that my hosting provider has a lower limit than most on the amount of server memory each user can occupy at a time (I mean RAM memory, not storage space). I think the problem was that some of my images were large enough that they were causing the process to use up all the memory allowed, which was causing the script to fail.

Again, I’m not knowledgeable about this stuff to know for sure (I’m just a broken down old sailor, not an engineer or programmer) but I don’t think the issue was with your script.

Thanks again for your efforts and keep up the good work.

I’ve been blogging on blogger since 2006. I have well over a thousand posts and almost 2000 images hosted on blogger.

Since Google announced its new privacy policy (namely, that users no longer can expect any), I decided to get out of google completely.

I created a WP blog and imported all my blogger posts. After realizing that my images weren’t imported, I asked for help from my readers, one of whom pointed me here.

I downloaded and installed the updated script/plugin posted by Jondor above and tried it.

It worked GREAT (thanks) and I successfully converted about three quarters of my images from blogger to my own WP site.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t finish them all in one sitting so I closed my browser and came back later. Now, after closing the browser, reopening WP dashboard and running the plugin again, it doesn’t work any more.

I get a message like this:

WARNING – There may be a problem with the matches.
We have found some blogger hosted jpg files without a well formed A tag.
There were only 0 matches but we found 4 jpg img tags.
This may be nothing but you should check this post
http://sailorcurt.com/?p=867
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__lfEllzo3Ck/S8KcpW0eXnI/AAAAAAAAEZg/jAHeXfHcRO8/s320/circles_0001.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__lfEllzo3Ck/S8KcqXxSCyI/AAAAAAAAEZo/5XbMrU20owI/s320/circles_0002.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__lfEllzo3Ck/S8KcrWk1PeI/AAAAAAAAEZw/k32e8HmVju4/s320/circles_0003.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__lfEllzo3Ck/S8KcsjKTLOI/AAAAAAAAEZ4/xCfJQQ400iE/s320/circles_0004.jpg

On every post that still has blogger images linked.

I can’t figure out what changed between the first time I ran it successfully and now.

Anyone have any insight? This still helped immensely so I still offer my thanks, as now I only have about 20 posts or so left that I need to update manually if I never get it to work again, but it’s still a pretty daunting task and if someone can help me get this script to work again, I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks.

Otherwise great script so far Just what I was looking for. Great to be able to change host domain to be used in other cases, not just blogger!

After a little searching and a little debugging, just a few simple changes were needed to make the script work.

http://www.thedwarfers.net/otherstuff/blogger-image-import-edit.zip

I marked my changes with MODIFIED2: to distinguish them from the previous changes made to update it to what is now the current blogger.

Enjoy!

Since Cache Images is released in GPL, author of Blogger Image Import can update his plugin with code from Cache Images so that users can benefit from it.

It’s not elegant but it seemed to work. First I FTP’d all of the images from the host that housed the blogger based images (if you dont have FTP access to it because its on blogspot say, you could probably write up a WGET call to grab them all). I then uploaded all of these photos to my new wordpress website with in a new directory.

Then I went in and updated the WordPress database through phpmyadmin – (back up your database before you do this just in case!). The image urls are all in the post_content field of the wp_posts table. All I did was a single SQL call that searches and replaces the old urls to the new urls. I know this doesn’t add the images to wordpress properly, but it works for my purposes.

The SQL call looks like this:

update wp_posts set post_content = replace([post_content,'[old_image_path]‘,’[new_image_path]‘);

This assumes all of the images were in the same directory, which is how blogspot usually saves them. Don’t include the image names in the query of course and make sure the /’s match in your query. Hope this helps someone!

Paul Reilly