#4622: Importing Blogger Post Slugs
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Reporter: clazh | Owner: anonymous
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 2.3 (trunk)
Component: Administration | Version: 2.3
Severity: normal | Keywords: Blogger, Import, Post Slugs
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Hi there,
Recently a friend wanted to move from blogger to wordpress but he
was afraid to do it since after importing Wordpress auto generates the
post slugs hence the permalinks change. I hunted around and found a
solution. It involves adding just 2 lines of code in the blogger importer.
I have blogged about it [http://www.clazh.com/move-from-blogger-to-
wordpress-and-maintain-permalinks-and-traffic/ here]
at around line 520. Insert these 2 lines after the call to wp_insert_post;
{{{
preg_match("/([^\/]+)\.html$/", $entry->old_permalink ,$matches);
$wpdb->query("UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET post_name = '" . $matches[1] . "'
WHERE ID = '$post_id'");
}}}
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