A complete guide on how to move blogger blog to self hosted wordpress

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blogger to wordpress Moving Blogger blog to self hosted wordpress is also the most important decision made by a blogger.There are many reasons that encourages a blogger to move their blog to self hosted wordpress but moving your blog during the early days of your blog is better than to move your blog after a long period of time because there occurs more errors during the move.

Some simple terms to be known before you proceed

Moving your blog to self hosted wordpress is an important decision that you have made.
Since Blogger and wordpress are different blogging platforms , many things and features differ from each other.
You must have the concept about wordpress themes,wordpress plugins and other basic terms before you move your blog to wordpress.
Once you move your blog to wordpress your original blogger blog will not get lost.
In future if you like to rollback your upto date wordpress blog into blogger then its a really hard issue.

Some main Requirements

A registered domain name like .com , .org , .me which has got the feature of updating nameservers.
A web hosting service that meets the requirements of wordpress.

1. Be sure and confident

First thing is you must be sure that you had made a wise decision of moving your blogger blog to self hosted wordpress.You should too have confident that you can use wordpress in a wise way to develop and promote your blog.

2. Buy web hosting space

This is the most important thing and also the first thing to move your blogger blog to wordpress space.You must own your own web space to save the contents of your blog.So you must first get a web hosting space before you continue.

3. Update nameservers of your domain name

Nameservers performs the task of showing that your domain name is pointed to your wordpress blog.It takes around 12-48 hours to get your nameservers updated depending upon your domain name hosting company.You should enter the same addresses in your domain name nameservers as provided by your web hosting service.

To know whether your nameservers has been updated or not , take a frequent look of your blog in few gaps of time.If you blog address stops showing your old blogger blog then you can confirm that your domain name nameservers have been updated.

4. Login to your webhosting Control Panel

After you get your domain name’s nameservers updated login to your Webhosting control panel with the same data you signup with.To login enter http://yourdomainname.com/cpanel in your browser and signin with your Username and password.

5. Install wordpress from Fantastico

This is the most important step to be performed to get your wordpress account active.Take a look at the snapshots below on how to install wordpress from fantastico.

a. Click Fantastico from your Cpanal dashboard.

b. Click Wordpress from the fantastico page.If you Cpanal already got Wordpress button,you can directly proceed from there.

fantastico page

c. Now Click New installation from wordpress Page.

new installation fantastico

d. Now in 4th step enter data in the installation form as suggested in the snapshot below and click Install Wordpress.

install wordpress

6. Preview your blog

After you install the wordpress for your blog now its your turn to look at your blog once.If your blog URL shows the new wordpress blog with just a single post “hello World” then you can confirm that your wordpress blog is fully setup and you can now move to next step.

7. Login to your WP Blog

After you’re done upto step 6 then now its your time to login into your wordpress blog.For that type htttp://yourblogname.com/wp-login.php in your browser.You will be redirected to sign in page.From there sign in into your wordpress blog with the same username and password that you have entered in step 5 d.You will be redirected to your WP dashboard from there.

8. Import your Blogger Blog

This step will import the posts ,comments and categories of your blogger blog into your new WP blog.To import your blogger blog click Import under Tools tab.Click the Blogger Link from that page.The next thing is you need authorize the blog with your Blogger account.After you authorize you will be taken to Import Page.The page will list out all your blog hosted on that account.Now click import to that Blog which you want to import.The import will complete in some time depending upon your internet connection.

9.Update permalinks to the the Blogger Style Permalinks

At first the permalink of your posts seems different from your old blogger style permalinks.The default permalink will look like http://www.yourblogname.com/?p=123.So you need to update this permalinks like the default blogger permalinks http://www.yourblogname.com/2009/11/sample-post/Post-title.html.For this Click Permalinks from your Settings Tab.Now you will need to select different styles for your permalinks.To make your Permalinks same like the blogger , Check the custom structure filed and enter the following code in the custom structure field and Click save changes.

/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

permalink A complete guide on how to move your blogger blog to self hosted wordpress

If you are doing well upto this step then you are done transferring your blogger blog to self hosted wordpress.But all the wordpress customization are not over here.You need to optimize your wordpress blog fro different search engines like Google.Yahoo,etc.
If you got some problem during this process or need support after this then you can easily contact us or communicate with the cute comment form below.Have a good day Bloggers!

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