So after much research online, I noticed there wasn’t a lot of information about maintaining your Blogger account at google and blogging on your blogger account, but feeding the recent posts into a Wordpress site.
The scenario: A recently revamped site is using Wordpress as their Content Management System, but prior to moving to WP had two blogs on Blogspot/Blogger. Each was hosted on Blogger and not self hosted. You can easily import the content from a Blogger account to populate your WP site, but in this case they wanted to maintain their Blogger presence and have the most recent post appear on their homepage in WP. First looked at a number of php scripts and WP functions, but after a little research the quickest solution was to use Feed Burner. Feed Burner not only gives you an html embedded code to include in your site, but also wraps each piece of content within classes and id’s allowing you to customize the look and feel in CSS, http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78991. The application used in specific is BuzzBoost.
1. First log in to your Blogger account.
2. Go to http://feedburner.com
3. Since you are logged into your Blogger account you should already have a Feed Burner account.
4. The first screen you will see is titles of your feeds and a “Burn a feed right this instant” with a field below it. Enter you rss feed in the field (for blogger it will look something like this, http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default ). Click “Next”
5. Click through the steps to include your blogger feed, then return to “My Feeds” when completed.
6. Click on the feed title you just created.
7. Click on Publicize tab in the top navigation
8. After clicking on Publicize, click on BuzzBoost in the left column.
9. Enter the details about your feed, ie. title, number of posts, ect. Click Next or Save.
10. A snippet of code will be generated, copy that code and paste it into your html page or WP page template or whereever.
11. You can then go in and style the feed according to Google’s doc on styling a Feed Burner feed.
12. That’s it, you are now rocking and rolling.
