Thinking About Moving My Debt Free Goal To WordPress
I have never moved from a blogger blog to a wordpress blog before. Anyone have any experience with this? I would just rather this blog be on my own hosting instead of being on blogger hosting.
I guess I will look into this more and go from there. I will keep you updated.
Progress Overview
Moving your blog from blogger to WordPress is fairly simple, in fact, WordPress allows you to transfer your entire blog. It’s rather convenient the way they have it set up.
It is pretty easy like Ethan said. One thing to note you’ll have to re-do a lot of the aspects of your page design, because they don’t transfer over while your blog entries do.
Anyone know of a online guide that tells you how? Maybe a website or something?
The process is simple, if you only want the data and are fine with a new design/template. It gets tricky if you want to maintain the same addresses/URL structure for all your posts, which is a good idea when a blog like yours has been established for a while and links that have already been recorded by search engines will get broken.
Try this link:
http://www.clazh.com/move-from-blogger-to-wordpress-and-maintain-permalinks-and-traffic/
Amy, I have been debating whether or not to switch over to WordPress. I think I’m going to be a copy cat and go ahead and make the switch. I’m getting rather fed up with blogger any way.
I was debating the same issue a few months ago when I figured that it would probably be better to stay with blogger, considering the great application development team support that they are getting from Google now.
Amy,
I switched from Blogger to WordPress. It was a bit of a pain the bit since I was winging it, but it can be done, especially if you use the following resources. The most important thing is maintaining your permalinks. I used the article that is on the link that vneely posted (click the “David Pascoe” link). Basically there are 2 lines that you need to add to your wordpress import blogger.php and voila! ALSO!!! when you have WordPress loaded go to “Options” then “Permalinks” and select “Custom” Put this in the custom box “/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html”
Make sure you do this BEFORE you import your blogger posts.
You’ll also need to go and switch any photos you posted on blogger to your own hosting. Blogger doesn’t like hotlinking.
I LOVE wordpress.
Oh by the way… happy 4 months to your son! My boy is so huge already, lol
Nichele
I did not really care for wordpress so I moved from there to here. They have better templates and design though!
Amy, the entries and comments are all data base entries that can be exported from blogger and imported to WP. as far as the look and feel goes.. you have the keys to the kingdom and can do whatever you you want with templates, and the plugins are fabulous. as far as keeping your journal entry titles as descriptive, that’s a simple variable to set in your admin settings. i think making the move to wp is very smart for you, much more flexible, and the way you are soaking-up the intermet in general, you’ll catch in no time.
if need any help with WP, just drop me a line.
Peace,
scotth.
doh.. and I almost forgot.. you already have the hosting, and wp is free, so you could play with the export/import and admin utils as a subdomain, and when you are happy with the new blog, just do the domain change.. if you dont like it in the end, no harm no foul.
Have fun.