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It seems that I moved the blog successfully. I copied the Blogger blog on Thursday, so any comments since then were lost, but other than that everything seems ok. The procedure was more difficult than necessary, but not as bad as I feared.
Importing from Blogger did not work directly, but from the WordPress support forums I found out that I should import first to a Wordpress.com blog, and then export to a XML file. It was not as difficult as it sounds really, and as you can see it worked.
It took me a few hours to find all the themes and plugins I wanted, and to install them. I grabbed the theme from Courtney Tuttle’s SEOd Themes, because I didn’t feel like scanning a theme for problems. It’s the SEOd Mistylook theme with some of my changes to colors and a custom header.
Things I had to do manually include customizing the post URLs to match those of Blogger (so my old BlogSpot urls still redirect to the correct post). It isn’t 100% perfect, but most posts have the same URL as before. I also had to tweak the theme to include the AddThis buttons, and the AdSense.
That’s another change from my Blogger blog: I dropped BidVertiser in favor of AdSense. I noticed I hadn’t been paid for the clicks for the last couple of weeks, because BidVertiser requires the ad-block to use the same URL as the page it appears on - and my ads had the old blogspot address on them. After going through the ad selection at BidVertiser, and un-approving highly untargeted ads I also saw only the “Your Ad Here” ads, which won’t convert well.
I’ll write a more comprehensive post on the choices I made and how to move from Blogger to WordPress next week. It will probably take me another few hours to track down all the plugins and tweaks I used though…
by Sutocu | September 15, 2007 
Good luck with Wordpress! You may have more possibilities than at Blogspot.
I’m in the midst of converting from Beta Blogger to Wordpress hosted on my own domain. I agree it’s sticky, but you don’t have to lose all your comments. If you don’t mind reproducing your last few posts, I’ll have a step by step process that I used.
I used haloscan commenting,and while I couldn’t get the old script I found to work, it’s worth it to me to manually enter the blogger Post IDs into the wordpress posts, then run a haloscan importer.
Blogger comments are imported as well.
Keep checking my site, it should be up later this week (maybe tomorrow).
Hi Suzanne!
I know that you can keep the comments if you do it right. I managed to import comments, just lost them from the last few days, because that’s when I took the copy. I’ll have to check your blog though, if you plan to write something like that, since I too have an article on something similar planned, and I want it to have something unique.
(I’ve been sick for five days, so I haven’t been able to write anything recently)
i like wordpress due to how easy it is to use and it allows me to set up blogs in like 15 mins.
I also just moved one of my blogs to Wordpress. It had been using MovableType for 2 years and was really being held back by it. There is no reason to use anything other than Wordpress.
wordpress FTW! congrats
Ready to argue with the themes of education-all. All the same, you can very well write about it