Every once in while you may feel a need to tryout something different or have a fresh option to solve your needs. Talking about a change people tend to change their Internet preferences according to emerging trends. An example of the case may be that people have been shifting their active accounts and profiles on the latest social networking sensations. The blogosphere is not an exception to this phenomenon. Let us take the two most popular blog platforms in account to elaborate these happenings. Some of you may have started your blogging on either on Blogger, or on WordPress. A comparison between the two and proving the either a better option another thing and is out of the scope of this discussion. The focus is that once you have started your blog you may come across a time when you are not satisfied or you are game enough to try something new. You decide to transfer your blog on to the other blog platform, i.e. if you are a Blogger user you want to go to WordPress, and if you are a WordPress user you need to go to Blogger. Blogger, at the time of the writing of this post, permits only Blogger to Blogger blog transfer, so if you are a WordPress user, you are into a bit of hard luck. But, WordPress allows you to transfer your blog, along with all its posts, tags, labels (categories in WordPress), and comments to be hosted on WordPress. This too has two ways to do it.
1. Blogger to WordPress when blog is hosted on Blogger.
Import your blog directly from the Blogger if you are hosting your blog on Google (i.e. Blogger itself). You will know this when you see a“.blogspot.com” after your blog mane in the URL. This is because you are using Google’s BlogSpot domain to host your blog on the Internet. In your “Manage” or “Tools” panel of your WordPress dashboard and click on “Import”.
From here go to the Blogger import option and authorize the blog that you will be importing to WordPress.
Then you need to grant WordPress an access to your blog account on Google and start “Import”. Pretty straightforward, huh? Well, you are done transferring your blog on Blogger that is hosted on Blogger itself (very important point to be noted) to your WordPress blog.
2. Blogger to WordPress when blog is privately hosted on personal domain.
This one is for those of you who are hosting your blogs privately on your personal domains. Well, if you are using Google’s Blogger service to maintain your blog on your own domain, there some bad news for you. You will not be able to import the Blogger blog that is not on Blogger. It is obvious, isn’t it? WordPress allows importing Blogger blog as there’s a code written for it that includes tine BlogSpot domain. But if you are trying to mention a Blogger blog hosted on a domain other than BlogSpot, WordPress has no solution to this query. Though don’t be disheartened, as there’s a solution to it. Now let us rewind back to a sentence that said that Blogger allows Blogger to Blogger blog transfer. Even if you have different domains, this function still holds true. So, transfer your privately hosted blog on to a dummy blog created just for the transfer purposes, but remember to host it on BlogSpot account. This is how you do it:
Go to you blog (the original one hosted privately on your personal domain) Settings on your dashboard and click on “Export Blog” under the Basic > Blog Tools section. Press the flashy orange button that says “Download Blog”.
Save the blog as an XML file. Now if you haven’t yet created the dummy blog for the transfer, this is the right time to do it. When you have created the dummy blog, there will be screen that tells you to “Start Blogging”. Don’t just start yet, open the “Advance Setup Options” and click on the “Import Blog Tool”.
Browse and select the XML file that you had downloaded earlier and press “Import Blog”. You got your dummy blog ready, with all your blogs and their comments intact. Think you are done? Well, you almost there. Follow the step #1 above to transfer your blog hosted on BlogSpot domain (your new dummy blog) to your WordPress blog. Voila! You are done now. You may delete your dummy blog if you may wish, but after the import process is over on WordPress and all your blogs are being shown on the new WordPress blog.
You may think this to be a tedious process to transfer your Blogger blog to another Blogger blog and then import it on the WordPress blog. But believe me, this is the only way, there’s no other method to do so, unless you are a coding master and decide to rewrite your WordPress functionality yourself. For the lesser coding efficient ones this is a tried and tested method for them.
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