Move your blog from Blogger to Wordpress today
I sat down tonight with one task in mind: I wanted to transfer one blog from Blogger to my own domain, purchased with Namecheap for $8.88 by the way. I was expecting the whole process to take the best part of an hour and I was ready to tackle the whole thing full on. Turns it took less than 10 minutes and I had my blog set up on my own domain with all the posts, comments and categories from my Blogger account in no time.
They make it that easy for a reason! If you are using Blogger, you really need to think about moving everything over to Wordpress on your own domain with a web host. Not only does it make you look more professional, but it opens up a whole new world of customization and control.
To move everything over from Blogger you need to have a blog set on your own domain, and be using Wordpress 2.2.x and New Blogger, which almost everybody will be by default. Under the “Manage” tab in Wordpress there is an option to “Import”. Click it and select “Blogger”. You then have to log into the Google account you use to access your blog. Once done, you can import all the posts, comments and categories at the click of a button and assign them an author. That’s it! Job done.
One possible problem you may run into is an error message like this:
Trouble signing in
We were not able to gain access to your account. Try starting over.
If this happens, you need to go into your wp-admin/import/blogger.php file and replace all instances of “www2.blogger.com” with www.blogger.com
That’s really all there is to it. So for everybody on Blogger, go get yourself some cheap hosting, reliable hosting at somewhere like Hostgator (about $6.95 a month), get your domain, and start using Wordpress.
One more thing: Don’t forget to remove all the posts from your old blog, and to redirect from your old url to your new one, you can add this code directly below the <head> tag in your html:
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex” />
<script type=”text/javascript”><!–//–><![CDATA[//><!–
var url = “your new url”
(document.images) ? location.replace(url) : location.href = url;
//–><!]]></script>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;URL=your new url” />
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