Comments on: Moving your blog off Blogger to a self-hosted WordPress site http://www.tristanwaddington.com/2009/10/how-to-move-your-site-from-blogger-to-wordpress/ Web Development and Strategic Communication Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:11:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19620 By: tristan http://www.tristanwaddington.com/2009/10/how-to-move-your-site-from-blogger-to-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-894 tristan Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:30:39 +0000 http://blog.twaddington.com/?p=569#comment-894 Hey There, the instructions I posted should allow you to maintain your permalinks ("long-tail" links). Following the instructions in the post above will help you do what you want. Once you've purchased your hosting with GoDaddy, you should be able to install WordPress and access it at a temporary URL or IP address so you can import your blogger content and configure your permalinks. If you do all the set up properly, once you update your DNS settings, your post permalinks should all resolve to your imported content just as they have been doing on Blogger. Hey There, the instructions I posted should allow you to maintain your permalinks (“long-tail” links). Following the instructions in the post above will help you do what you want.

Once you’ve purchased your hosting with GoDaddy, you should be able to install WordPress and access it at a temporary URL or IP address so you can import your blogger content and configure your permalinks.

If you do all the set up properly, once you update your DNS settings, your post permalinks should all resolve to your imported content just as they have been doing on Blogger.

]]> By: El Maestro http://www.tristanwaddington.com/2009/10/how-to-move-your-site-from-blogger-to-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-893 El Maestro Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:49:53 +0000 http://blog.twaddington.com/?p=569#comment-893 Thanks for the great article & especially the tip for how to maintain permalinks. That is especially important for me as I plan the blogger --> wordpress switch. I have decided that I want to set up a new WP design that will very closely track the existing look and feel and navigation of our blog. While the existing design is not perfect, I don't want to alienate users, no one likes too much change; and I also don't want to lose our long-tail links to our posts. What I'm having trouble getting my hands around is how I set up the files in the background. Today, the blog name is registered through GoDaddy but we use Google Blogger's free hosting. If I set up hosting for WP through GoDaddy, how do I do this while maintaining the current blog? and the same address? Is there a way I can "tweak" everything on WP in a file before I do the ultimate import? Any advice or direction you can share is helpful, thank you in advance. Thanks for the great article & especially the tip for how to maintain permalinks. That is especially important for me as I plan the blogger –> wordpress switch. I have decided that I want to set up a new WP design that will very closely track the existing look and feel and navigation of our blog. While the existing design is not perfect, I don’t want to alienate users, no one likes too much change; and I also don’t want to lose our long-tail links to our posts.

What I’m having trouble getting my hands around is how I set up the files in the background. Today, the blog name is registered through GoDaddy but we use Google Blogger’s free hosting. If I set up hosting for WP through GoDaddy, how do I do this while maintaining the current blog? and the same address? Is there a way I can “tweak” everything on WP in a file before I do the ultimate import?

Any advice or direction you can share is helpful, thank you in advance.

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