Blogger Hosted Images on Wordpress
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Reader Kathy Frederick asks:
“Pictures I’ve uploaded prior to my move to WordPress are still hosted on Blogger. Is that bad?”
Great question Kathy!
This issue will be of interest to former Blogger users who have moved over to Wordpress, or users who are considering the move.
Although Wordpress successfully imports Blogger hosted images over to your Wordpress blog, there is a problem that will sooner or later catch up with you.
Blogger does not seem to like hot-linking hosted images to other blog platforms. Sooner or later Googlebot is going to figure it out, and it will break all of the links to your Blogger hosted images.
So if those images are important to you, you had better start saving them now or they could disappear.
All is not lost however because you can host them for free with online image host sites. One of my fav’s that I use is Image Shack. Your own ISP service provider should also provide you with some ‘free‘ webspace with your account.
You can of course put it into your Wordpress image folder, but I wouldn’t recommend that because your hosted account comes with limited webspace and if you use a lot of images it will fill up quickly. If that should happen they will suspend your account and send you a bill to upgrade.
There is also a Wordpress Plugin that is supposed to copy Blogger hosted images over to your local WordPress server. But I wouldn’t recommend it either because the creator of the plugin gives us this warning:
“WARNING!!! This plugin makes permanent changes to your WordPress database that cannot be undone. This is still in development and has not been thoroughly tested. Do not run this on a production blog without a backup or you may permanently destroy the content. Preferably run this only on a test blog with the expectation that it may need to wiped clean if something goes wrong. Consider yourself warned.”
So if you decide to use this plugin – do so at your own risk! As far as I’m concerned I’ll pass.
In my case I have so many posts that it’s just not practical to change all the image links manually, but what I have done is fix the links in my more popular posts.
If the rest should disappear, then “Que Sera Sera“.
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Thanks, Bloke. I sort of knew that some day I’d have to address this. I did download locally all my old photos from Blogger’s server, worried they might go missing one day, so I guess I need to get cracking on my old posts to redirect them to a different service. I have some work to do!
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After you’re finished I have a few thousand that you can help me with.
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For all the help you’ve given me over the last six months, I owe you more than that! Have a wonderful day!
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I am a big fan of hosting pictures on third-party sites. Since Flickr has a limit of 200 pictures for cheapos, I use Zooomr for pictures and memories as they’ve no limit and imageshack for screenshots and other blog related images.
Currently Zooomr is going through an upgrade so all my old images are unavailable !
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A few questions:
1. What is the file size of the images that consume the WordPress storage rapidly?
All my images from Blogger were uploaded to my WordPress Blog.
In 2007, my average image file was 7Kb and calculating the “space free divided by the space used” provides 107 years of text and images at my WordPress Blog!
2. Does a Blog load slower when your images are placed on a different server?
3. 3Gb of free storage is currently provided by the free WordPress.com.
Ref: http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/01/21/three-gigabytes/
Will their competition eventually offer more free space?
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Hi Deb:
1. Providing that you are only going to upload images and not write any posts, install plugins, new themes, wordpress upgrades etc. then I guess you’re all set for the next millenium.
2. Anything that calls another server is dependant on the speed of that server. That goes for scripts and widgets too. Images that haven’t been optimized for the web will slow down a blog.
3. Now there’s an idea. Use your FREE Wordpress.com account to store your images. Glad I thought of it.
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Hey Kathy … call me.
Jaffer, I took a look at Zooomr but it was unavailable.
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Hi BB:
Using FREE WordPress.com is a great idea for two reasons!
Storing images (will test on next post)
and another backup of our posts (Privacy set to block Search Engines)!
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I think it’s a great idea too. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a plugin to automatically make a mirrored copy on the free Wordpress account? Any takers out there?
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I used blogger hosted images earlier but since then switched to flickr before moving over to Self hosted wordpress. I got upgraded to flickr pro as a result of being an att yahoo subscriber. But I would think the 25 a year for the pro plan would be worth it.
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Not if you’re a cheapskate like me
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Images at FREE WordPress.com work great, less filling!
And, Free WordPress.com images load faster than hosted WordPress images!
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Fantastic!
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I found your blog via Google. I have seen many sites and most of them do not look this good. I will let my friends know about this site. Thanks for the excellent content.
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hi. blogbloke.
your theme is like a wp premium theme..very nice.
i actually tried the wp plugin which you don’t recommend and it worked flawlessly. i have about a thousand or more images imported by that plugin, which i actually learned from you as well, somewhere here in your blog, about moving to wp from blogger.its been 5 months already.my blog btw, became google PR4 in just 3 months
Showbiz? get it from boy!’s last blog post..Wu Chun in Manila
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Hi there old friend and thanks for noticing. Congratulations on your PR jump, and now that I know the image import plugin works I might give it a try.
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