: Blogger post permalink lost when exporting/importing blog Google's Blogger now allows the original publisher to specify a customized permalink for a post on a blog. Yet, when one exports and imports

@Kristi941

I do not know of any way to keep the permalinks.

Yes, you can predict the link from the post title - I was just about to do the research and write up the current rules when they added the custom-permalink feature, so I didn't bother. But basically, the text portion is geneated from the start of your post title, with a dash () substituted for spaces, and "small words" (eg "the") left out.

However there's a twitch: even if you delete a post from your blog, that post-title is unique and can never be used again. So if a new post (or an imported one) would have the same title as a previous post, some digits are added to the end of the link to make it unique. And I don't think you can predict those digits.

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