HOW TO MIGRATE FROM BLOGSPOT TO WORDPRESS

When the idea of upgrading the blog to WordPress comes to your mind. It usually means that your blog is growing really well. You need a more customizable and reliable platform to continue expand your blog. Migrating all of your existing contents to another platform can be quite overwhelming. Today, we will going to talk about how to do it without losing contents.

WordPress blog

Obviously, you need to have your new WordPress ready for the blog post migration. Don’t know where to start? Hop over to our create WordPress.org post to learn more details.

Export from Blogspot

Login to Blogspot, go to Settings > Others. At the top of the page, click Backup Content. A window will popup with an option Save to your computer. This will export all of the existing comments, blog posts, pages and photos into a xml file.

Import to WordPress

Go to your WordPress dashboard, Tools > Import. Blogger > Install Now. This will install a Blogspot importation plugin. Wait until the process complete then click Run Importer.

Click Choose File. Locate the xml file that you previously download from Blogspot and upload it.

It will ask you if you would like to import the file as a new user or existing user. It’s all up to you. You could choose whatever you want.

Check permalink structure

Blogspot and WordPress has different permalink structure. Since you’re moving from Blogspot, you want to make sure the permalink structure is as close to Blogspot as possible to prevent broken link error. Go to WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Permalink and select Month and Name.

Done! You successfully moved all of your Blogspot content to WordPress.