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I wish I could help you but I’m not sure.

I am curious how you got your logo above the nav.
Your site looks great!

haha – thank you for your help!

It’s no secret that I’m new at this… ??

but I’ve been looking for that magical “delete” button on nearly every page and it eludes me still! Definitely not on Appearance:Manage Themes… (the logical location)

well what is good is that this is an entirely new site, with NO information loaded yet. So I’m not worried about losing anything a this point!

But I do need to know how to access via FTP…

thankfully everything happened right the second time around!

kathaemert –
I have found success!!

from blogger, i exported the XML.
then i used https://blogger2wordpress.appspot.com/ to create a WXR file.
finally from within WP, used the Tools:Import:Wordpress page to import this.

and DONE!

it was super easy. all the hard stuff came before. my hosting provider is really what save the day, generously helping create the .htaccess file, set permissions, and adjust a php file to handle a larger file upload.

best of luck!

thankfully another blogger export snagged the right stuff and i’ve now completed my migration. yeah!

something fishy did happen. see:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/376793?replies=4

great! i’m a bit concerned as i’ve never created author accounts for anyone else; hope something fishy didn’t happen.

has no one come across this problem before?

JustFootball: Yikes! I was optimistic with your earlier post…. then see your latest.

So far, I’ve exported the xml from blogger, used the conversion tool to create the wxr, but then i’m getting file size errors when i try to import. Trying to figure out where to increase file size (where did you do that?)

My fingers are crossed that the fact I have next-to-no comments may be a blessing in disguise…

thx
fingers crossed for you!

this seemed like the most simple & direct method for migration, so I tried it. However, I received this error msg:

The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini

one other question. when I used the appspot, it created this file:
wordpress-wxr.xml.html
Is that the correct nomenclature, or do I need to amend the file name?

Thanks!

+1 for that question! it seems to be a default in my theme and not something I can turn off! I haven’t looked at the code yet, but I’m assuming that’s where it would be most easily done. (i’m just dealing with it for now as i don’t want to go and mess it up after i’ve finally got the site working!!)

Deckster – (or anyone else):

Everything seems to work great with permissions set to 777, but I’ve read that this particular setting is not ideal, due to its lack of security. If so, then why is it used?

thanks!

after many hours of being frustrated, i simply submitted a ticket to my hosting service and asked them if they had any clue why i was having problems. even though they don’t actively support WP, they graciously helped and i had everything up and working within 30 minutes.

perhaps try this approach? good luck!