Mirror Blogger from WordPress

Are you one among those who enjoy using wordpress but at the same time, wish you can have a copy of your blog’s post of blogger? ( blogname.blogspot.com )

For some time now, I have been looking for a plugin of some kind to enable me to do that: I post on http://roushdat.wordpress.com and I wish the posts to get posted automatically to http://roushdat.blogspot.com !

I asked google, but it seems most people wrote about moving from blogger to wordpress and I wanted the contrary… This guy http://www.codesimple.net/2007/10/wordpress-to-blogger.html wrote a script in python to copy all posts from wordpress to blogger but unfortunately, programming-shy people (many among us if not most…) this solution is not THE solution.

Another way I’ve heard about, but i don’t wish to try…using third party applications to write your blog posts and the application will post a copy to your different blog accounts. If you happen to have used or using such an application, please share your experience with us

After some deep-thinking of an easy way for automatically updating my blogger from wordpress, I got a solution USING Blogger’s mail-to-blogger feature

Here’s what you need to do

Create your wordpress acount [if you don't have one yet] http://www.wordpress.com

Create your blogger’s account [if you don't have one yet] http://www.blogger.com

Create a feed burner’s account [it is a third party site for managing your blogs' feeds. Make sure you add the feeds only for your wordpress blog, and not for the blogger one] http://www.feedburner.com

Ok, once you have created all the above accounts, sign into your blogger account.

Click on Settings, then click on Email. You will obtain the page show in the screenshot above. In the text box filled with “ascretmail“, fill it with a secret word or come characters that you can remember. Now, given my blogger account is roushdat, my secret email address will be roushdat.asecretmail@blogger.com . Make sure you also select the “publish emails immediately” radio button. And finally click on the “Save Settings” button.

Henceforth, all emails sent to roushdat.asecretmail@blogger.com will be published as blog posts on roushdat.blogspot.com

Now get into your Feedburner account.

You can click on the link of your feed title.

Click on Publicize. Click on Email Subscriptions located in the left menu.

You will obtain a page resembling the one below.

Select this piece of html code and put it in your blog if you wish to have a textbox for users to subscribe to your blog by mail…or simply
Use this shorter piece of html, it is just a link. If you put it in your blog, it will look like this:

Ok, follow the link to subscribe to your own wordpress blog

Subscribe yourself using a secondary email adress. (gmail is most recommended because of its ability for mail forwarding for free)
Once subscribe, you will receive a confirmation email.
Click on the link to confirm your subscription.
And if you have done everything correctly till now, you will soon be receiving in you mail box, new posts made on your wordpress blog (please note that email deliveries are not instantaneous with feedburner. you can change at what time deliveries are carried out in your feedburner account.)

Here we go, a post delivered to my mail box. Now, we have to automatically send it to my blogger’s blog

In your gmail account, click on settings (upper right of your window) and click on filters.

You will obtain a window as shown below:

In the from field, input the email address from which you received the blog post in your mail box. Same goes for the Subject field. And click Next Step.

Select the “Forward it to:” checkbox and type in the secret email address of your blogger account. For our example, here it is roushdat.asecretmail@blogger.com and click on “Create Filter“

And you are done! All you posts that you make on wordpress from now on will get published on you blogger blog as well

You can check out my mirror blog here: http://roushdat.blogspot.com (The template is not that clean though…did it just for this demo)

And when you end your post on wordpress, use the keyword: #end