Moving from Blogger to WordPress

Blog•on March 1st, 2010•No Comments

I recently moved a blog from Blogger to WordPress and was quite impressed at how easy the process was.  Here are the basic steps written out below:

  1. Set up a new WordPress blog.  Full instructions here.  Also, the hosting company GoDaddy makes a WordPress blog set up super easy.
  2. Once logged into the admin area of your blog, find Tools within the menu options.
  3. Click Import
  4. From here, you can choose a number of different Blog options in which to import from, including WordPress.com, Blogger, and LiveJournal.
  5. If you choose Blogger, just sign into your blogger account, choose the specific blog to import, and click the button to proceed.  This will move over all posts and comments associated with your blog.
  6. Once everything has been transferred over to your WordPress blog, it’s a good idea to forward your Blogger blog URL to your new WordPress domain name.

If you have any questions about this process, let me know.  The reasons to move to WordPress from Blogger are numerous.  The main reasons I moved my music blog from Blogger to WordPress were the availability of thousands of templates to choose from, a number of Plugins to add incredible functionality to your blog, and the ease of use.