BlogFeeder ‑ Blog Importer
by Golden Rule Ventures · launched
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No matter what we try, we can't get this to work. It does not recognize the URL of our WordPress blog whether we use the main blog listing page, a category page or an actual post. I have submitted two support requests to the provider and have received no response.
This app was really buggy for me and didn't work on Safari. At first it only imported 10 articles, but after contacting support they told me to change some default settings in Wordpress and it was able to import all my articles. It's too bad those setting changes weren't in the instructions. It was a nailbiter, because I only had 72 hour window that I had to pay up-front with the app and the support case took a day or two, although support was pleasant to work with. None of the imported articles have any pictures even though Wordpress hosts them all, so I don't fully get why I would want this app at all.
Developer reply ·
Hi, I am sorry you had a bad 1st experience while importing the posts. From your description it looks like you missed setting things up correctly. When you have a moment can you confirm one setting in your WordPress admin for me? WordPress sites set their RSS feed syndication settings to only send 10 posts by default. To update your RSS settings, go to Settings > Reading and change 'Syndication feeds show the most recent' to allow all of your posts in your feed (BlogFeeder needs access to all posts to import them). At the same time, you may want to ensure that you allow the full text in your RSS feed. Update: On checking our logs I can see you have 300 posts already imported. Would you mind letting us know if you require further assistance?
At first, it worked. But then doing a redirect on my RSS feed towards the new Atom feed of my store itself, it entered an infinite loop and recreated the articles hundreds of times and it crashed my store. Not recommended.
Developer reply ·
Hi, I am sorry you had a bad 1st experience while importing the posts. Would you be open to open a ticket with us we take a look at your setup? Looking forward to hearing from you.
Needed an app to transfer my Wordpress blog over to Shopify and they have a great one-time option just for transferring. Exactly what I needed. Had trouble when I could only import 10 posts so I thought it was limited in the app. They followed up with me completely unprompted and helped me solve the issue (which ended up being my RSS settings on Wordpress) Great app and great customer service. If you're looking for a way to transfer a blog over to Shopify, this is the one.
Do not install this app, seems to be more bug that software. Completely unusable. Zero stars. Only cost me $15 to discover this but hopefully i'll save a few people from the same fate.
Developer reply ·
Hi, I am sorry you had a bad 1st experience while importing the posts. Would you be open to open a ticket with us we take a look at your setup? Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thank you for the prompt response on the issue we were having with the uploading issues and speed of uploading from WordPress to our home page. I really appreciate your efforts. Allan
Featured image not import from blog site, Hope import the "Featured image" sync!!!!!!!!! If can import Featured image, it will be Perfect!!!!
Developer reply ·
Hi Razful, Thank you for your review. Unfortunately, due to a technical limitation in the Shopify API, we are unable to import the blog images into your Shopify account. This means that even though they display on your Shopify blog, they are being served from your external blog. Due to this limitation, we also aren't able to populate the "featured image" field. I'm sorry I don't have better news in this regard. If Shopify opens up the API to allow image imports, we will certainly investigate making this available. Thank you for understanding.
Really easy to use for creating better SEO on your site by importing and organizing posts, with a great support team.
We use this for importing industry blogs to our ecom store. The Porch Swing Store It works really well.
App doesn't work. Paid $14.99 for 72-hour access to the app. Well, it looks like I just got ripped off $15 - since the app won't identify our blog. I've tried repeatedly - entering the CORRECT URL for the blog that I needed to import. All I get is this error message... "Uh Oh! Feed is invalid" -- but that is simply not true.
Developer reply ·
Hi, I am sorry you had a bad 1st experience while importing the posts. I can see you did get a moment to respond to our follow up message in your support request. Would you be open to reply to it we iron out the issue for you?
Thank you! Smooth and easy to bring my blog over from WP. As long as the WP blog isn't deleted, the images seem to be fine on the Shopify Blog.
I used this app to help me improve SEO by republishing our wordpress blog to our shopify store. The app does a great job. A little issue with syncing photos and videos.
Imported the blog posts easily enough, but doesn't provide any facility to import images from them. As a result, if you're migrating from the old blog you need to manually go through each post and manually upload each image to Shopify - which sort of defeats the purpose.
Developer reply ·
Hi, Thanks for your feedback. The one thing to keep in mind is that due to a technical limitation in the Shopify API, we are unable to fully import the blog images into your Shopify account. This means that even though they display on your Shopify blog, they are being served from your external blog.
www.KingCobraofFlorida.com - great blog importing tool you can see it in action here, only thing missing is photos/images dont seem to be imported
waste of time and money, as it only get 10 posts and also the post description is missing, just copied a few words.
Developer reply ·
Hi, I am sorry you had a bad 1st experience while importing the posts. From your description it looks like you missed setting things up correctly. When you have a moment can you confirm one setting in your WordPress admin for me? WordPress sites set their RSS feed syndication settings to only send 10 posts by default. To update your RSS settings, go to Settings > Reading and change 'Syndication feeds show the most recent' to allow all of your posts in your feed (BlogFeeder needs access to all posts to import them). At the same time, you may want to ensure that you allow the full text in your RSS feed.
This app created 18K duplicate posts and heavily damaged our SEO. Very limited amount of admin settings, was not easy for us to diagnose problem and forced us to remove app.
The support is 100% and I can't recommend highly enough. Brian and Daniel helped me sort out a problem I had made the whole process easy. Thank you so much.
Ah-mazing! I was able to seamlessly integrate my WordPress blog with my Shopify store blog! No sweat, no drama! And customer service is definitely a plus!
This app automatically and reliably copies our Wordpress blog posts to our Shopify sites. It works, and the support is great too.
We've been using this app for a couple of years now. There have been a few issues with it, but support has been helpful when those issues arise. We couldn't operate our Shopify blog successfully without it! Recommend.
We used BlogFeeder to import ~800 posts from our old Wordpress site. Pretty neat. The support was good (thanks Daniel !) and accomodating. Tips if you have a whole Wordpress to import with many posts : during the validation of the feed, the app will most likely fall in timeout, due to Wordpress' duration of the RSS feed generation. To counter that, display the RSS feed in your browser, save it as a text file, upload it as a media on your Wordpress site and paste this new URL to the app. Will work like a breeze.
I was having trouble importing my blogs from my current website to Shopify. Shopify recommended BlogFeeder. I was struggling at first, but their support gave me the information needed to get my blogs imported. Also for email support it was quick, I had a response in just a couple hours.
We use BlogFeeder to import blogs from WordPress - a much simpler solution when we moved to Shopify than re-writing 400+ blog posts! All good and the support is good too (although live chat would be helpful).
Did not import correctly and continued to state that my wordpress site had summary when I have full text. buggy. Just retried and now it will only import a handful of the blogs. DO NOT TRUST THIS APP. Spend money elsewhere
Did everything it said it would do. Brought over all of my blog articles very quickly and easily, and allows me to make the Shopify articles canonical. I used it in conjunction with the "Excelify" app to push through a number of customizations, such as importing images, removing weird formatting issues (the result of Shopify not offering some of the same carousel/gallery features that wordpress does), and removing the "This article first appeared on [original blog url]" that the app appends to every article. The whole experience took a full day, which is much less than the 40 hours I had calculated it would take. If you want to transfer your images from wordpress to Shopify, I would suggest downloading all of the images from WP into a file using an export app, uploading them into Shopify via their file manager, and then find + replacing the portion of the wordpress path with Shopify's path.
It does exactly what is says on the tin, however I do wish it synchronized faster.
Did exactly what it was supposed to from blogger. Easily transfered my blogspot to shopify. I purchased the 72 hour option to do a one off job.
Excellent app. I've used another app many months ago but that was not very well developed and so I uninstalled it eventually. This one has imported more than 1000 posts from my wordpress site onto shopify and it looks quite pleasing inspite of it being a mere import. Tremendous value added. Recommended.
I do not recommend using this app AT ALL. We purchased the one time solution for moving our blogs from wordpress to shopify. When we ran it, it only moved 10 out of 100 blogs. It took three days for support to get back to us. When we finally got some advice, we went to try to make the fixes and our 1 time transfer was expired. We had to contact them again, but there is no weekend support, so we are now waiting again for days just to try to get them to turn it back on.... awful... and super frustrating.
helped my import my wordpress to shopify. Really nice they give you a trial. A huge help and recommend. why choose anyone else
This app was so simple to set up, and fast too! The longest part was waiting for the blog to sync with my shop. Now all I need is some clever way of making my shop blog look like a gallery rather than a listing. Thanks Sean :)
I used this app to link my word press blog to my shopify website. Easy to install and use. Totally satisfied with this app - and communication with Blogfeeder.
This app brings my Wordpress blog to my shop, offering a better shopping experience to my clients. I’d like it to import images too.
Awesome app! A must have.. We have used it on 2 sites already and plan on 3 more soon. Easy to use and works well.
super! such an easy way to migrate! i would suggest this app to anyone looking to move thier wordpress blog post over.
Did exactly what I needed, uploaded years worth of blogs from my old blog on wordpress to my new blog on Shopify, very quickly. Didn't like that it couldn't properly import photos into the blog posts, but wasn't too big of a deal. Very helpful and saved me lots of time!
I used it to bring over my blog from Wordpress to Shopify. Worked perfectly and quickly. The featured pictures don't come over - so you have to do that manually. But it was great to have the blogs just populate - and I can add the pictures over time.
Love the idea of it and how it works... but it takes FOREVER to sync! If I have an upload I need to do in less than 30 minutes, forget about it. Not sure why this happens.
I have used this app to transfer blog posts from Wordpress for about 6 months and have not experienced any problems, it works perfectly. The setup is easy, customer service is first class - I would highly recommend this App.
I used this app to import over 300 posts from two blogs and it worked like a charm. I had read other reviews about people losing pictures, which I expect happens if you do not keep the original blog running. I am keeping it up to use as a summary of my new posts and a referral source, so I didn't lose any images at all. Would absolutely recommend it.
Pretty good so far! The importing process was quick and easy and we are very happy to have the blog integrated on our e-commerce site. The only complaint so far is that only a few blog posts moved over and I would like all the posts to be there.
Our blog isn't working but we keep getting charged. We have contacted you guys along with shopify but still not resolved.
Terrible app! The single time use does not import images. As soon as the 72 hours is up, your images are gone. Shopify used to have an app that worked magically for importing blogs from wordpress into the platform. This app needs to return! We have over 1000 blog post sitting on a server that we need imported into shopify. The wordpress import app created by Shopify worked when I tested it before (when it existed). When the time finally came for us to transfer our website domain completely to shopify, the app was gone. We were left to use this Blogfeeder app. If you are doing a one time import, DO NOT USE THIS APP. What good is an import that does not import the images to shopify server? What good is a blog without its images? GARBAGE. My guess is Shopify shut down the app because of the server resources it took to import and download the images, unfortunately this is exactly what a blog importer needs to do! Please refund!!!
We really hoped this would work but it did not import more than 5 blog posts and all without photos. We tried to contact support 3 times, no response :( Would like a refund.
I used the blogfeeder app for a one time transfer of my Blogger blog into my shopify blog. It worked seamlessly and when I had a slight issue with something the support was incredibly efficient and went over and above to help me correct it. Highly recommended.
This app is AMAZING!! I was constantly moving posts from my Facebook page to my site. As you could imagine, it was a VERY slow process. Now, it's AUTOMATED! Awesome app!! Thanks! Lefties Only www.leftiesonlystore.com
I paid for this app and it didnt even sync my wordpress blog to my website. DO NOT recommend.
Awesome customer service! We had issues with a "first appeared on" text showing up in our Shopify blogs and excerpts, and Ryan from BlogFeeder was very helpful sending us a link with instructions on how to remove the line from the SEO by Yoast Plugin on our Wordrpess, which was actually causing the issue. He also extended our our single use period by 7 days to give us time to resolve the issue and re-sync. Above and beyond!
works well to import Blogger. And you can set up different topics and feeds.
Woks excellent, Very easy to use for different feeds, We use to import from SkinCareBySuzie.me to SkinCareBySuzie.com for different categories of information.
I was having an issue with my old site and I contacted technical support for advice. I received a quick answer and a solution and was able to bring all my old WordPress blog posts over perfectly. Great product!
This is definitely helpful, but there is a long time in the delay of posting on wordpress...and then it showing up in shopify. Wish that would improve.
Excellent Plugin, works even with very strange feeds like mine, Recommend 100% for people transferring from magento with a blog.
I have been using this application for a few months now. I have been waiting to leave a review to give it time and see how I like it. I must say it does exactly what it says it does. It links in with no issues. Best of all if you are having a problem with the synchronizing you can sync it manually from the application in your shopify apps. Be patient, do not expect a synchronizing to happen at lighting speed. But it does do it quickly. I will say if you use emoji's in your blog, they do not show up in the synchronizing to your shopify blog. This may be a future update they may add but at this time it does not show up when you view your blog from shopify.
Excellent product. Worked like a charm and when I needed a few tweaks, the documentation was clear and effective. I needed a bit of custom fiddling because of settings on my old blog and the service rep was able to make the required css changes for my new blog to look perfect. Thanks BlotFeeder.
The app works exactly as described, and the developers seem to have thought of everything. When I had questions, the help person, Ryan, answered over and beyond what I asked. He was very thorough and provided follow up on every point. Very happy with my interaction.
Great app for our organic baby gifts site! We've been using it for over a year and it is very reliable.
Does what it promises - after editing the wp functions.php, it looks neato!
Support is amazing for this app - so helpful in migrating my store to Shopify. Thanks team!
Effortless migration from my previous host, only glitch, I had to reinsert all photos.
Used this app to migrate our wordpress blog to our new Shopify store. It was SIMPLE. Definitely use this app.
I have been using Blog Feeder for several months now and really like it's performance. At first I transferred my blogs from Squarespace to Shopify without any problems. Images, videos and posts transferred over to Shopify without any problems. I also set up one main blog that pulls the latest RSS feeds from my other blogs. It works like a charm and I am very happy with it. My only complain would be that the Featured Image has to be added manually.
Great Support. They deserve more than 5 stars. App works exactly as mentioned. Setup is really easy. Thumbs up to Ryan Frizzell for his awesome support. I would strongly recommend this app.
Excellent help diagnosing a problem. Would be better if chat were available, but the delay was not too bad. Thanks!
We were very happy with the service but, recently the sync process for blogs has started taking over a half hour? It's not very convenient.
This app easily and accurately moved over 100 blog posts to shopify from wordpress. It took less than an hour. I'm very happy with the results. So simple to use -- almost nothing to read and think through.
Excellent app. We just migrated 8 years worth of blog entries, and it worked!!! Thank you for you wonderful work.
Great! Does what it says on the tin and feeds through our Wordpress blog into Shopify. https://www.urbanindustry.co.uk
Plugged it in, paid the fee for the 72-hour use, and got right to migrating a blog from Blogspot. Within minutes it was done. All the content, graphic, and links synced over perfectly. Saved me tons of tedious time cutting and pasting stuff and uploading jpegs. Great job, ShopStorm!
paid 10 dollars to move blogs only was able to transfer 10 out of 184 support is good products is not take your chance maybe it will work for you
I initially had issues importing 825 blogs over to my Shopify account, but their customer service was quick and within 12-14 hours I had my entire blog over! I am so happy with this service. I had tried using WordpressImporter and it kept quitting at 2%, so Shopify recommended this app and I am so happy they did. Totally worth it! I've had nothing but issues on my old Wordpress blog that is self hosted, so I am so glad to be rid of it.
Awesome! This app is great! Everything synced up beautifully.
Worked like a charm - this is the best app ever for blogs within Shopify because I can reuse all of my old content and I don't have to mess around with cutting and pasting images. A definite must but for any shopify site.
Saved me a bunch of time - obviously you're still going to be relinking all the images & internal links by hand, but at least you get a jumping off point... I had issues because my source blog was a custom post type - I had to export, and then re-import it to "posts" in wordpress - then delete and reset the feed to make the app work. After that it worked fine. The support received was prompt and friendly. Could do with a few more options... But better than the alternative.
ShopStorm support was quick and helpful. We had to prep our our feeds in order to get the most out of BlogFeeder and Justin was good enough to offer both support and an extended license period in which to carry out additional work to really get the most out of BlogFeeder. Great product and helpful support. Very happy. Thanks ShopStorm.
WOW! Something that actually does what it says it is going to do!!! I was whining about doing the old copy and paste for a few hundred posts and such from my previous WordPress site (sure you can export them, but the files are junk) when the thought flickered across my bleary brain to see if there was an app for that. And there was AND it worked! Best $9.99 I have spent in a while. THANK YOU!!! Ya'll nailed this!!!
Great app!!! Moved my blog posts over to my shop with ease. No technical skills needed at all. Customer service is great!!!