Thread: From Blogger to WordPress

Okay everyone I have decide to take the plunge and move to WordPress. (Can I get an amen!). My current adsense earnings will more than pay for the hosting fees.

Anyways, for those that have done it, I have been told it is easy.

I have a few questions:

1. Would it affect my current pages listed in Google? What visitors still get the correct pages, or will they end up with 404?

2. Would I need to move my domain name over, or can I setup my template first before moving my domain name?

From what I have read WordPress allows you to import Blogger posts and comments, so I'm not too concerned about that...unless I need to be.

When I do move over, I will probably do it on a weekend when I receive less visitors and I don't publish any posts.

Whoo hoooooo! Great choice, TechieGuy, you'll be glad you did.

OK, to answer your questions...

1) After you finished migrated/importing all your pages to WordPress, it's important to do a redirect so that anytime someone lands on one of your old blogger pages, they get redirected.

This site was very helpful for me.
http://laffers.net/howtos/howto-redi...r-to-wordpress

Now I must admit, my blog was not nearly as trafficked as yours when I switched so I didn't have as much of a concern about rankings. At the time I made the switch, most of my traffic to my blog was coming from my main site. Nevertheless I think that site will be of great help to you.

2) Do you have Windows? If so, follow my instructions on setting up WordPress on your PC first. This will give you a fully functional working version of WordPress on your PC. You can export your posts out of blogger and into this local version of WordPress for testing, design updates, etc.

http://blog.2createawebsite.com/2008...es-in-windows/

One tip: Before you import your posts into WordPress, make sure you select "No Archive" in your Blogger account, otherwise it will only grab the first post of every month. It took me forever to figure out why WordPress was only getting one post each month.

I think you'll be fine. I would highly recommend installing wordpress on your machine first. That way you can test everything. And the nice thing is, all your blog files are saved in one folder. So when you're ready to go live, you'll just upload that entire folder to the same area of your host.

Let us know if you have any questions. Good luck!

Thanks Lisa.

I signed up with a host, but am still pointing my domain to my Blogger blog until I get my template finalized.

I have followed your instructions and installed WordPress locally, and imported my posts and comments from Blogger.

Next up is to finalize my template. Good thing I created mine manually so I know how it fits together.

Excellent! Yes, having an understanding of CSS and coding from scratch is going to help you tremendously.

Yeah thanks for sharing really nice info

Originally Posted by lisa

Excellent! Yes, having an understanding of CSS and coding from scratch is going to help you tremendously.

Can i ask where i can get info about that and teach myself??

Originally Posted by Dyiana

Can i ask where i can get info about that and teach myself??

You can start with this site: http://www.w3schools.com/. It it easy to understand and teaches a lot about HTML/CSS and other online technologies.

Thanks for sharing.

blogger move to wordpress is a big project..
you should get everythings done before you moved you domain

Originally Posted by TechieGuy

Okay everyone I have decide to take the plunge and move to WordPress. (Can I get an amen!). My current adsense earnings will more than pay for the hosting fees.

Anyways, for those that have done it, I have been told it is easy.

I have a few questions:

1. Would it affect my current pages listed in Google? What visitors still get the correct pages, or will they end up with 404?

2. Would I need to move my domain name over, or can I setup my template first before moving my domain name?

From what I have read WordPress allows you to import Blogger posts and comments, so I'm not too concerned about that...unless I need to be.

When I do move over, I will probably do it on a weekend when I receive less visitors and I don't publish any posts.

I have been thinking about changing my eBlogger blog to a Wordpress blog and found this post on a search. Lisas reply answers some of my questions but I have some others.

1. I was looking into ways of getting more traffic to my eBlogger blog and I thought that I might do better with WP. Is this so regardless of anything else?

2. My domain name is part of the eBlogger system so what would I do about that?

3. I want to shorten the domain name anyway as the other was too long and set up as part of another site that I no longer have online. Is this going to cause any problems with the redirect that Lisa suggested?

Sandy

I'm in the process of moving from Blogger to Wordpress, I'm using hostgater as a webhost. I don't get the difference between wordpress.com and .org. From what I gather from the Wordpress website you can't have ads on .com is that right? Can somebody clarify?

Originally Posted by MayaB12

I'm in the process of moving from Blogger to Wordpress, I'm using hostgater as a webhost. I don't get the difference between wordpress.com and .org. From what I gather from the Wordpress website you can't have ads on .com is that right? Can somebody clarify?

You can read an explanation of the differences here:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

You are right Adsense, Yahoo, Chitika, TextLinkAds and other ads are not allowed on free WordPress.com blogs. But there is a system if you get a lot of traffic.

Here is their advertising policy: http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/

One of the other disadvantages in that you cannot upload plugins although wordpress.com comes with basic plugins already installed.

Good luck with your move.

Sandy

Sandy is correct. Let me add a little.

Hostgator will, through their control panel, add Wordpress to your site with just a few clicks.

If you had installed on Wordpress.com you would not really own your own domain. By having the free Wordpress installed on your own domain which you register in your name, you will own the site. This is very important as far as control is concerned. You don't have to worry about losing your links, etc., by losing your wordpress.com location. Also, you can have a simple web address, not one with wordpress included.

Thank you all for your help. I switched to Wordpress, had a few glitches here and there. I wish I had planned ahead of time but I think things will work out fine anyway. I'm really glad a switched, though now I have theme commitment issues - I switch theme at least once a day.

it's a long process moving from blogger to wordpress. goodluck