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Blogger.com |
Well without going into a lot of detail right now, I have been on the fence for a while on whether to move to WordPress or not. I finally took the plunge after helping a friend with his website that happened to be hosted on WordPress. Through that experience I saw how easy and powerful Wordpress can be, especially with the plugins and themes available on the platform. It's not for everyone, as it depends how much customisation you'd like to do on your blogging website.
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phpMyAdmin is under the Databases section in your cPanel (web hosting control panel) |
You want the https://yourwebsite.blogspot.com/2015/11/post-name-separated-with-spaces.html to have the right matching ends. To do set up these Permalinks in Wordpress:
This just is telling it to make links like this:
Now you want to start importing your blog posts over from Blogger.com to your WordPress website. Then you want to set up some redirects so that traffic comes to your new location for your blogs, website pages, etc. This is where the cool WordPress plugins come in handy.
Click on the “Plugins” menu item on the left-hand side of your WordPress dashboard. Once you see the screen below, click on the, “Add New” (Plugin) button at the top.
This will install this on your WordPress website. Click "Activate Plugin" when you see the installing plugin screen.
Note - Don't worry just like earlier, if you see the plugin stopped for a few times. As it can sometimes get stuck while crawling your old website for posts, images, etc., so it restarts the process and keeps retrieving information from there.
If you accidentally close your screen while this process is running, you can actually log back in and it will continue where it left off. For me it hung on this step, and I didn't see my images didn't migrate over at first (as per screenshot above). So I deleted the Plugin and also the imports Posts and Pages. I tried to reinstall but it still remembered the old progress and what I'd updated already. I ended up restoring some posts and then it came back up again. Just try those troubleshooting steps if you did get stuck.
This allows you to keep you Google Search Rank so this step should not be underestimated. If you’ve worked hard to have your Blogger posts ranked highly in top search results, you don’t want all that work to go to waste when you move to WordPress. The easiest way for non-techies to accomplish this is to use one of two plugins created just for this situation. Both offer detailed instructions which you should follow closely as changes need to made on your old Blogger site as well as on your new WordPress one.
This is the Blogger 301 Redirect plugin is the one I used. One of the other bloggers out there said it was recommended by the folks who created the Blogger Importer Extended plugin that you just used to import your content. I found it worked okay, but not perfect. So it may be worth checking out some other plugins out there. 1. Install Plugins Click on the “Plugins” menu item on the left-hand side of your WordPress dashboard. Once you see the screen below, click on the, “Add New” (Plugin) button at the top. 2. Search for "Blogger 301 Redirect" 3. Click and Install "Blogger 301 Redirect" plugin 4. Activate the Blogger 301 Redirect Plugin
This will now redirect visitors from your old site on Blogger.com to Wordpress. This will help you to keep your blog traffic and manage your PageRank after your migration from Blogger to WordPress. Blogger to WordPress If the previous plugin doesn’t work for you, you can use the Blogger to WordPress plugin as a backup to migrate your redirections.