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BTW, I did look through my git repositories to make sure nothing had changed and it definitely has NOT changed.

@omega did you ever solve this? I’ve run into this today in a plugin that I created but never had any issues with it before. Bizzare.

I am getting the same thing. Have you gotten any response Justin?

For what its worth both these blogs have the following plugins:

• Akismet
• Google XML Sitemaps
• WP Super Cache
• Google Analytics for WordPress
• Gravity Forms
• Types
• Views
• Posts Type Order
• Disqus Commenting System

+1, actually +2.

This is happening on both my personal and professional blog!

Maybe you’re right. I manually corrected everything now but it took well over an hour. That said my mouse clicking muscles got a very good workout. :^)

Thanks for help. I’m considering this done from my perspective and will start getting more comfortable with the data model so that SQL based solutions don’t seem so daunting.

Ok well I do see the pattern now. The posts that have a tag of “MyBlogName” now are associated to the category of “MyBlogName” but the rest of the posts (over half) say they are of category “uncategorized” even though there is no category by that name anymore.

If it has any bearing, the reason I have so many posts that have the “MyBlogName” as the tag may have been related to the import process I did from Blogger. I’m not sure. When the import is initially done all of the “tags” in Blogger are made into “categories” on the WordPress side. I used the Categories to Tags converter plugin.

Oh dear. Didn’t work at all. A vast majority of the posts — although I can see now rhyme or reason to which ones fit this pattern — still say “uncategorized” as the post category even though there is no category by that name. Any thoughts?

Ok thanks Ipstenu, i’ll give it a whirl.

Doesn’t uncategorized have some special properties? For instance if anything is not assigned it is automatically assigned to uncategorized. Would that now change to “NameOfMyBlog”?

Anyway, it’s true doing this would help to some degree but it doesn’t 100% solve it. I’m surprised there isn’t another more elegant solution. If I don’t hear anything soon I guess I’ll try this approach.

I would think this would be a reasonably common request. I am currently facing it where i have thousands of posts from a blog I imported from Blogger. I want to remove all “uncategorized” tags as well as change all posts categorized as “uncategorized” to the category “NameOfMyBlog”.

I know SQL but I’m VERY rusty and don’t trust myself at the moment. I’d really like it if someone had a more elegant solution. From a UI standpoint it would be really straightforward. Just use Gmail’s solution where you are asked with a checkbox if you’d like to select ALL posts.

Thanks Alchymyth. I had registered them but in looking at the registration I realised that the registration of “before_widget” and “before_title” were using different class names that the style sheet which was why things were going squiffy.

Well i accidentally solved my own problem … although that did leave me with a new and related problem. How did I solve it you ask? Well for reasons that are beyond me I created a new development environment and tried the import from there rather than my hosted environment. Presto. The authorisation happened and my list of Blogger blogs showed up for import. I imported the primary one I need and it worked surprisingly well. Very happy.

Now what? Well now that my primary blog has been migrated so swimmingly well I wanted to import a second blog and tag it with a Category to keep it separate from the primary blog. One problem with that and one question. The problem is that for some reason the secondary blog claims to only have 4 posts in it when I know there are hundreds. I thought initially it was because this blog had old styling (aka, didn’t use the modern Blogger dynamic templates and associated goodies) so I upgraded it but it had no impact. I’m at a loss as these posts clearly exist and it seems like it’s on the google end that this problem is occurring. Anyone have any thoughts?

The last part is a question … is there any way during the import to associate all new posts to a Category tag? Also is there any way to make the “tags” in Blogger stay as “tags” in WordPress (by default they come in as Categories which can be switched over of course).

ChristiNi,

Yeah I tried the Atom-to-WXR conversion tool and got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/_webapp25.py”, line 703, in __call__
handler.post(*groups)
File “/base/data/home/apps/blogger2wordpress/1.342259769852558481/blogger2wordpress.py”, line 38, in post
output = translator.Translate()
File “/base/data/home/apps/blogger2wordpress/1.342259769852558481/b2wp.py”, line 80, in Translate
title = self.feed.title.text,
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘title’

It all looked too cryptic to decode so I gave up. :^(