How to Migrate Blog from Blogger to WordPress

As we all know that there are mainly two blogging platform Blogger(blogspot) and Wordpress. Wordpress consider as more powerful than the blogspot platform because of plugins. But blogger is a great platform for newbies to start blogging and learning the basics. If blogging users want full control over their blog then the migration from blogger to wordpress sounds great. Today I'm going to show you how to migrate your blog from blogger to wordpress.

Blogger(blogspot) is a free tool to make a blog provided by the google and your blogspot blog is hosted on blogger and your blog uses the url like this abcd.blogspot.com although you can add custom domain name to your blogger blog as well. But here I'm talking about blogger to wordpress (self-hosted). Okay without wasting your time lets start the steps of migration.

1. Create a Backup of your Blogger Blog ::

Before performing any task I highly recommend you to take backup of your blogger blog and keep it on safe place. For creating a XML backup file of your blogger blog click here.

2. Register Domain and Buy Hosting ::

Now you need to register a new web domain and buy a hosting plan make sure that you are purchasing hosting plan from wordpress hosting service providers. Now sign in to your hosting account and install wordpress on your new domain.

3. Import Your Blogger Blog into WordPress ::

To import your blogger blog to wordpress follow this :

Open your WordPress Admin Dashboard and under Tools > Import, select the Blogger option

now you will be redirected on a page where you have to activate the blogger importer plugin, click on the Activate Plugin and Run Importer.

now you will be redirected on a page where you have to grant to authorize wordpress to import your blogger blog. Click on Allow Access button to continue.

Now you will be redirected on page where you will be asked for selecting your blogger blog just select the blog which you want to import by clicking on the import button.

WordPress will now import your blogger posts and comments from blogger and now all your Blogger blog posts and comments will be available on your new WordPress site.

4. Change your Permalinks structure ::

Permalinks are the URLS of each and individual post that you have on your blog bu default its structure set on default option but you need to change it to custom structure.

setting > permalinks > custom structure

and paste this code into the textbox ::

/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

5. Setting up Redirection ::

Open your Blogger Dashboard and choose Templates. Scroll down the template page and choose the “Revert to Classic Templates” option to switch from the XML-based Blogger templates to Tag based templates.

Now you need to replace the text area with the code given below and replace the occurrence of alltechmantra.com with your domain name

<html>

<head>

window.location.href='http://alltechmantra.com/'

</MainOrArchivePage>

window.location.href='http://alltechmantra.com/?q=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>'

</ItemPage> </Blogger>

</script>

</MainPage>

</ItemPage></Blogger>

</head>

<body>

</MainOrArchivePage>

<h1>

<$BlogItemTitle$>

</a>

</h1>

<$BlogItemBody$>

</ItemPage></Blogger>

</body>

</html>

now save all the thins and again go to wordpress dashboard.

6. Install Maintain Blogger Permalink plugin ::

Now you need to install a plugin that is called Maintain Blogger Permalink just goto the link given below to install the plugin ::

Download and unzip wp-maintain-blogger-permalinks-2.1.zip

Activate the plugin (important)

Under Tools > Maintain Blogger Permalinks click the button that says “Maintain Blogger Permalinks”.

A big thank to developer of this plugin :: Justin Watt

Congratulations now you have all done with the migration from blogger to wordpress.

This is all about how to migrate blog from blogger to wordpress. Although steps are very clear but still you faces any problem you can me ask me via comments and if you find this guide informative then don't forget to share it on your favorite social networks.

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