Blogger Beta Blues, Part II
So, I discovered that with the newest (2.05) version of WordPress, importing my Blogger posts and comments was actually going to be a breeze (famous last words).
Gleefully, I installed WordPress on my web-server and set-up the database. So far, so good. Then I attempted to run the importer. Nothing doing.
- Login failed. Please re-enter your username and password.
But the username and password are correct. Apparently the problem lies with the beta now using a Google login, rather than the Blogger login. A little more digging around online and I found that I’m basically hosed. Had I not “upgraded” to Blogger/Google’s God-forsaken beta, it would have been smooth sailing. But, since I fell for the old “upgrade” ruse, there’s no reasonable way of accomplishing this task. I can either labor for days, cutting and pasting, or I can wait for WordPress to update the importer. I think I’ll wait.
Damn!
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature! (said an old software tester — dripping with sarcasm, of course). No doubt they knew this was a problem and didn’t want to bother fixing it, since you would be no longer a customer. Not that they’re selling it anyway…
Jen-Jen, on 11-15-2006 @ 1:14 am |