“Hi, this is Kannan from Webzschema and today’s episode I’ll talk about moving your blog from Blogger to WordPress. Now, Blogger and WordPress are the two most popular blogging platforms around and most people generally start their blog on Blogger because it’s very simple, but once the blog gets popular they try to move to WordPress because WordPress offers more customization options plus there’s a whole ecosystem of themes and plug-ins that developers has created around WordPress.

Now, WordPress offers a very simple one click option for importing all your Blogger blog post from Blogger into your WordPress blog, but there’s a problem. Lot of old sites could be linking to your content on Blogger similarly, you could be getting traffic on your Blogger blog from bookmarks or even from search engines, right. If You Need Website contact our web design company in coimbatore

The other problem is that lot of people could be subscribed to your old RSS feed in Blogger whereas you want these people to migrate to your new RSS feed in WordPress. In today’s tutorial, I’ll show you a very simple method that will help you migrate all your stuff from Blogger into your WordPress site and also retaining your Google [inaudible 00:01:10] as well as search engine traffic.

This whole thing will just take like less than five minutes to set up. Let’s get started. Here’s my Blogger blog. Now, this is a just a regular blog with a couple of blog post, some images and comments. Now, I want to move this blog to my new WordPress site. Now, I’ve all ready installed WordPress on my new server. It’s using the default theme and it has just one sample post.

Now, what I want to do is move all that stuff from Blogger into this new WordPress site. I’ll switch to my WordPress admin dashboard and under tools, I’ll choose import. Now, here you have an option to import stuff from different blogging platforms, but for this example we’ll choose Blogger.

Importing Blogger content into WordPress is just a one click process, so you press the authorized button and allow WordPress to access your Google account because your Blogger account is under a Google account. Now, once you authorize access it will show you a list of all the Blogger blogs that are connected to your Google account, you pick the one that you want to import into WordPress and within a minute or two depending on the size of your Blogger blog, all the posts and comments will be imported into WordPress.

Once the posts have been migrated from Blogger into WordPress, you need to assign an WordPress user that will be the new author for these posts. Now, you can pick the author from the drop-down and choose the save changes button. Okay, all our posts have been migrated and let’s see how they look like on the main site, so I’ll switch to the main WordPress site that will be visible to users. I will refresh this page and then you have all the new posts that have been imported from Blogger into WordPress.

I’ll now switch to the Blogger dashboard and choose the template option. This is using the default Blogger templates, but what we’ll do is, we’ll switch to the classic templates. Now, basically we need to add redirection capabilities to our template, so that if people visit our old Blogger blog post, they’re automatically redirected to the corresponding post on WordPress.

Now, you can find the template code in the show notes, but before you use this code you need to make one little change, just replace all occurrences of labnol.org with your actual domain name, where your WordPress site is hosted. Now that you have replaced Labnol.org with your actual domain name, just copy paste the whole thing and paste it into the Blogger template editor and save your template.

Now, we’ll switch to the admin dashboard of WordPress again and choose the themes editor. Now, all themes have a functions.php file, if this file is not available in your theme you can always create it through cpanel. I will open the functions.php file and I just need to add a little snippet of code to this file, you can again find this snippet in the show notes. I’ll copy this entire code and paste it at the bottom of the functions.php file.

I’ll then click the update file, but I need to save my changes. We are almost done now. Okay, let’s now test our changes. Here, I am on the old Blogger blog and I will open the blog post. Now, ideally this should open in WordPress and as you can see it automatically redirected you to the corresponding post in WordPress. It’s kind of working, but we need to make one little change here.

 I also want to transfer my existing RSS subscribers to the new WordPress feed, so I go to my Blogger dashboard and under settings, I choose posts and comments. Now, here you have an option that says, post feed redirect URL, all you have to do is add your WordPress feed here and save your settings. Now, what happens is when somebody accesses your old Blogger RSS feed, they are automatically redirect to your new WordPress feed. That’s it, thanks.”