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Original site was located at Blogger CloudAlbania but that platform does not provide the editing tools I needed for text processing, e.g. even a simple code formatting took forever.

Here I will post the migration steps in Hugo.

Web hosting platform

Since Hugo pages are static ones, I really needed some simple webhosting that I could place the /public folder. From hugo’s hosting & deployment recommendations I found that Render was the best choice so far.

To start migrating I created a git repo in GitHub first so I could track changes and allow automation of static web pages publishing through Render.

Migration preparations

After finding an appropriate theme in Hugo (m10c by the way) I needed to migrate from blogger to hugo MD files. I chose this one as I hate managing html or CSS.

The tool used was blog2md and the process was fairly easy on my Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL1. The project is based on node.

Folder preparations

In my hugo project folder I added a new folder migration and that was my workdir.

cd your-hugo-project
mkdir migration
sudo apt install npm nodejs git
git clone https://github.com/palaniraja/blog2md.git .
npm install

Now we need a backup of the original site in a XML format. In your blogger admin portal, go to Settings –> Other –> Import & back up –> Back up content. Save the XML in the same migration folder.

For Blogger imports, blog posts and comments (as separate file <postname>-comments.md) will be created in “out” directory

node index.js b your-blogger-backup-export.xml out

Cleanup and posting on production site

I had to clean up some old posts so I took to the time to review what was needed and then migrate the newly generated .md files in my content/posts folder.

Don’t forget to either clean up the migration folder or add a new .gitignore entry so that it does not get pushed in your git repo

Next steps

blog2md does not import images from blogger. Images need to be copied over as static files in order to fully remove blogger’s dependencies.