How To Move Your Blogspot.com Blog To Self Hosted WordPress

So you are planning on moving your blog from Blogger on to your self-hosted WordPress. We are here to help *Bob the builder. Can we fix i—- ahem*. No but really, we are here to help. Follow the below mentioned steps to easily move your blog from blogspot.com to your self-hosted WordPress website.

Step 1:

First things first, make sure you backup your blog that you want to move to WordPress just in case something goes wrong. This is very important and we do not recommend moving on without first creating a backup. This article is just for your knowledge and information; we hold no responsibility in case something goes wrong. So please, do not skip the backup creation part.

In fact, whenever you make any changes to your website, the first thing that you should do is backup your data. In case something goes wrong, you always have a restore point.

Backing up your blog is quite simple. Log in to your blogger account. Once you are on your Dashboard, click on Settings. On the next screen click on the link that says Export blog. Next, click on the DOWNLOAD BLOG button when prompted. This will now download your Blogger blog, and you have a restore point in case something goes wrong.

Step 2:

If you have not already registered your website, go and do it now. Buy hosting space from a web hosting company like GoDaddy,BlueHost or DomainHost, etc. They offer simple one-click installation for WordPress. In case you are hosting the website on your own server, you will need to manually download and install it.

Step 3:

Log in to your WordPress Admin dashboard. Considering that you are starting fresh with WordPress, you will first need to get rid of your Hello World post (do not worry if you forget about it, you can always remove this or any other post later on. Click on Tools, and select Import. Click on Blogger from the list displayed next.

Before you can continue on any further, you will be prompted to install the “Importer” plugin. Do not worry there are no more installations ahead. Oh, and you of course need to install this plugin just once – and then import as many blogs as you want.

After the installation has finished and the plugin is ready,you will now need to authorize WordPress for accessing your Blogger blog so that it can import the data from Blogger. Click on the Authorize button. You might need to log in, if you are not already logged in. The next screen will display the access requesting screen; click on Grant access.

Step 4:

After authorization, WordPress will display a list of all your blogs. Choose the blog that you want to import by clicking the “Import” button next to it. After the importing is complete, the Import button will change to “Set Authors”. Click on it, and choose the author that you want the posts associated with.

That’s it! You are done. Now go to your WordPress website and you’ll find all your imported articles there.

Now was not that simple and fun, and on top of that, it did not even take all that time and effort. In fact a few clicks and a few minuteswas all it took to see the task through.

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One Response to “How To Move Your Blogspot.com Blog To Self Hosted WordPress”

  1. Hey Zenil,
    Thanks for this post.
    :-)

    You know how much i love blogger but i have decided to fly with wind & as you had suggested me ,i have decided to move to WP. This Post will be very useful for me.

    Thanks.

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