The move process wouldn't be complete without yet another snag...
There's a Wordpress plugin that enables you to import from another wordpress blog (either self-hosted or from a wordpress.com blog), drupal, RSS, blogger, etc. Makes it seem easy enough. Psh...yeah, okay.
There are hundreds of posts in the Wordpress forum with the same issue - google (and thus, blogger) won't allow users to use the tool.
The simplest solution is to create a dummy wordpress.com blog, import your blogger blog there, and then create an export file then load that file to your self-hosted wordpress. It's really not hard.
But affiliate links aren't allowed on wordpress.com blogs. And I have plenty of them.
After pulling my hair out and scouring the web for a resolution, I found this information and was relieved. Until I try to use the little Google App page thing with no success.
More hair lost.
But then I thought to try using the app thingy on Internet Explorer (I use Firefox - give it a two week trial run and you'll never go back). Alas! It worked!
But for some crazy reason, it stopped importing once it hit the date when I posted a few test posts on my new site. Still figuring this one out. First attempt shall be to edit the xml file and remove the posts that successfully loaded (after having deleted the test posts) and trying to import it again.
Fingers crossed
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