When Google acquired blogger.com (also known as blogspot.com) in the year 2003, it attracted millions of people to step into the bloggers’ world. Soon, people started enjoying a new, enticing experience of writing and sharing their own views through posts, on a large variety of topics as hundreds and thousands of readers on blogger.com were always hungry for good content. But just a few months after the acquisition, WordPress made its way into the virtual world.
Though in the beginning, it struggled against Blogger.com but later the entire situation changed, as WordPress started to dominate the former ‘blogging giant’ with its great variety of features and easy to use backend dashboard. And today the scenario is such that WordPress theme development has become the most sought after web solution. Let’s see how the change came about.
Even though, blogger had quite an easy backend dashboard, but it was nowhere near to WordPress in providing features such as free plugins to add more dynamism to the blog, innumerable free themes, SEO friendly designs etc. This eventually made people to think about switching to WordPress rather than continuing to publish their posts on blogger. And, eventually WordPress did win the battle. In fact, now Google itself is more in love with WordPress than Blogger.
However, most people still find it difficult to move out from blogger to WordPress, and if you are one amongst them, then don’t worry, as with this article you will be able to learn how to move out from blogger to WordPress in six easy steps.
Steps
- Get yourself a domain name like ‘yoursitename.com’ from domain sellers such as Godaddy, Bigrock, Tucows, etc. If you are lucky enough you might get it on discounted price.
- Get a hosting plan from any of the reputed web hosting service providers, and point your domain name on to the given nameservers by the hosting company via domain panel, which you get after registering a domain name. This later part is required only in case you have a different company for hosting and domain name.q
- Look for the appropriate option in your hosting cPanel and select WordPress from the list of many options, and install it on your domain. Moreover, you can also install WordPress direct from the website as well.
- Install a new theme of your choice, which could be a free theme provided by WP or a paid theme as well. However, always prefer to design it yourself in PSD format and get it converted into a WP theme, for which wpintegration.com can prove to be your perfect partner.
- After installing the theme, look for ‘Tools’, which will provide you with many options but select the one that says ‘Import’, and select ‘Blogger’ from the given list and install the Blogger plugin. Then enter the required info and hit the ‘import’ button. Doing this will import all your posts and comments, and then just get on with your WordPress blog.
- To maintain your subscribers’ base, re-direct (link) your blog’s RSS feed.
Solution for the problems you may face
After importing the blog, you’ll notice that some of your links do not work anymore, and that WordPress hasn’t been able to import the images from your blog on blogger.com. You can avoid links based problem by using a plugin called ‘Redirection’. And, for the images, just make sure that you never delete the images from your blog on blogger.com or you can use a plugin named ‘Cache Images’ for the same purpose.
Apart from this, it is always advised to use a tailor made themes for WordPress as they are more convenient to handle and more importantly you can design them according to your actual preferences. Once you are done with the design, get it converted into a fascinating WordPress theme by taking the exceptional PSD to WordPress Conversion service from wpintegration.com, a brand name that speaks for itself.
It has been a long time since wpintegration.com is striving hard to convert PSDs to WordPress themes, which are not only W3C Validated, SEO friendly and Cross-Browser Compatible but also Responsive in nature. Since its inception wpintegration.com practices only hand coding, which ensures that HTML and CSS codes are error less and gives you an unmatched experience while browsing the website.
Additionally, each and every member of its development team is a certified developer and is well experienced in converting not only PSDs, but any image formats be it JPEG, PNG, etc., into great looking WordPress themes.
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