Import from Blogger Beta to Wordpress

Update: The inbuilt Import feature works now for the new version of blogger or the blogger beta. Read more here

Ever since I switched to Blogger Beta, I have been having compatibility problems which put me at a do-nothing but wait situation.

Initially I was trapped behind the development cycle of Windows Live Writer because the initial release was not compatible with Blogger Beta but Microsoft was quick in releasing an update to that with a few more cool features added. I felt relieved.

Now again there was this big deadlock! Really big one this time. I was all ready with my new website, Wordpress installed, Template custom modded for some style changes and some scripts installed but the posts from my old blog wont Import! Wordpress Import feature doesnot yet work with Blogger Beta and the great thing with Blogger is that you cant switch back from Beta. What a frustration it was
When I did a simple search for “Import from Blogger Beta” I found there were a lot of other people who were also trapped and were praying for a fix, but there was a solution too which I didnt even care to try because it had too much labour like saving each months posts in a folder and so on :!:. In the middle of the prayer I thought of trying the ‘ Import from RSS’ feature in Wordpress a try. My hope was soon washed away when I found that Blogger didnt have an RSS feed but only an Atom feed or atleast that’s what Firefox detected. I browsed through the code in my Blogger template and found only one XML file which obviously corresponded to the Atom feed. But still i tried imported using the Atom XML file but no use, nothing no posts were imported. I even tried a converter to convert the Atom feed into RSS, it didnt work either.

But then when I opened my blog in IE7, the next generation Internet Explorer from Microsoft, it intelligently detected an Atom feed and an RSS feed tooooo!
I quickly saved the XML file corresponding to the RSS feed and imported it into Wordpress. Bingo! Import Successful! and here Im blogging on my Wordpress blog with all my old posts moved. I felt so happy when I accomplished this task that I recalled the saying

Fruits of Hardship are always Sweet

or may be I made it up
I have separated the Import from Blogger Beta tutorial from this post and put it here. What I did here may not be the only way to Import from Blogger Beta but it works for sure.