As a blogger you have posting a lot of post on your blogger blog account. Blogger is completely free platform to showcase your knowledge by writing your views on any topic. So many of us take first step by creating account on Blogger, and happy with our decision as we can start sharing views freely.
So, when blog getting lots of buzz on internet then you may have to think over it, by making it more professional by buying a custom domain because blogger URL not look nice example: xyz.blogspot.com (blogspot included in your url) as you using blogger free services and this makes your url looks unprofessional.
If you wish to use custom domain then you can do by going to Settings -> Basic -> Blog Address -> Setup a 3rd party URL for your blog. Use this step if you don’t want to move your blog to WordPress.
Do check out our recently written WordPress Security Tips and Plugin to secure your WordPress website, when you completed WordPress migration process.
Tips & Plugins To Secure your WordPress Website
WordPress is famous CMS platform for hosting your blog. Its free to download and use but you have to pay for hosting and domain charges. So i prefer if you want to start with professional blogging or your blogger blog is becoming famous then you have to move to WordPress, because this gives you more freedom to customize your blog and adjust its setting as you wish which you can’t do on Blogger.
Benefit using WordPress over Blogger:
- Full Control over Blog
- Plugins and SEO
- Theme Installation
- AdSense Ads & Others
- & much more..
{Blogger to WordPress Migration Tips}
Step 1): Think some creative domain name, if done then proceed with hosting. We recommend you to host your website on SiteGround WordPress hosting as we are using it and happy with the service and support.
You can start with their StartUp plan and as your sites grows and getting more traffic then you can upgrade your plan in future. After selecting the hosting plan you will also get one free domain name.
Step 2: After you done with your registration process, now you have to set up your WordPress blog via cPanel. Check your login credential you received after registration, there they mentioned your cPanel login details.
Now after login in cPanel goto -> WordPress Tools -> WordPress Installer this will install WordPress quickly for your domain and you are ready to use WordPress.
Step 3: Now login to your WordPress dashboard with the username and password you created while installing WordPress. Click on Tools -> Import -> Blogger. Install Blogger Importer plugin This will import posts, comments, and users from a Blogger blog.
After installing now run the plugin, you have to ‘Authorize’ the plugin to your Blogger or Google account. WordPress will request you to give permission to manage your Blogger account you have to ‘Allow Access’. After authorization complete your blogs will appear and you have to just click ‘Import’ button on blog you want to import to WordPress.
After import has been completed you have to assign the authors for your blog post. if you prefer default author for all your blogs,m if you haven’t added any guest account on blogger then your default username will ok, but if you have post from others then you have to choose author names and assign to post. Now your WordPress blog is almost ready to rock.
Step 4: Now you have to create redirection rule, so that your Blogger visitors redirects to your new WordPress blog. You have to install Blogger to WordPress plugin.
Simple go to Plugin -> Add New -> Put Blogger To WordPress in search bar -> Install it -> Activate Plugin. This plugin handles traffic redirection part in a way that visitors will see be redirected from old Blogger.com post to same post on new WordPress.com blog on 1-to-1 basis. You may also check out the complete tutorial by plugin developer on how to configure -> Blogger To WordPress plugin.
Step 5: After activating the plugin you have to configure it, this you can do by going to Tools -> Blogger to WordPress Redirection -> Start Configuration. Plugin will find your blogger blog post in your current WordPress installation you have to click on ‘Get Code’ button to get the code and copy the generated code.
Now login to your Blogger dashboard and goto ‘Templates‘ and click on ‘Edit HTML’. Copy all the text in HTML editor and replace with the previous copied code and ‘Save Template‘
Now go back to your WordPress dashboard and click ‘Verify Configuration’ button. If the test successful you have completed the Blogger to WordPress migration successfully. Now your Blogger blog will redirect to your new WordPress blog and all the post and links will redirect to your new WordPress blog page.
Step 6: Moving from Blogger to WordPress, the URL of your RSS feed will change. So you have to edit it by going to Blogger Dashboard -> Settings -> Other and choose Post Feed Redirect URL. Put the web address of your new WordPress RSS feed and the existing RSS subscriber will automatically move to your new RSS feed.
If you already having FeedBurner account and using it for your Blogger RSS feed, then you have simply, just replace the source from Blogger RSS feed to your new WordPress RSS feed.
Now you able to use WordPress and its features, which makes your blog more awesome and more professional. Happy Blogging!
Hope this post sort out your queries regarding moving to WordPress. Do let us know if you need any help while migrating your blog over to WordPress in comment below. Thanks!
