Saturday, September 21, 2013

Migrate WordPress Blog to Blogger


It is an easy process to migrate blog from WordPress to blogger in 4 steps documented here. Check out the steps and let us know your experiences.
  • In WordPress go to Tools Export and click on the Export button
 
  • Choose All Content and click on Download Export file. This will give you an XML file to save to your computer in the native format (WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR format) with all posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags.                                                                               This file can be used for loading to another WordPress Blog or conversion to any other blog platform.

  • The file obtained in step 2 is in WXR format. It needs to be converted to a format blogger can read. Hence go to http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/ and Load up your WXR file. You will get another file back in blogger format. Save it on your machines. 

 

  •  Now it is time to import this file to blogger. Go to blogger dashboard and click import, select the file you got from. To export your blog, simply click "Import Blog" from the Settings | Other tab in Blog tools 





  • Once import file is clicked, read all the options carefully. Do remember that all draft posts from WordPress will also be pulled. Hence it is advisable that you don’t check the box to publish right away. You can take your time to review and publish after the import is completed by going to Posts - Imported.



Know the ball is in your court to decide which blog to delete and which one to keep. If you want to keep both wordpress and blogger blog active then you have to sync them up.

Write us why you have migrated from WordPress to Blogger or ViceVersa.

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