Blogger to WordPress... How did I do it?
I got messed up with migrating from Blogger to WordPress. Here's a little information about my blog before I moved it to self-hosted WordPress:
Here's the plan:
On the process of migration, I encountered some problems that really frustrated me. Here are the problems and the work-around that I have done.
Post and Comments Migration
[Didn't Work] WordPress has this tool that can import posts, comments and users from Blogger. You can find it under "Tools | Import".
[Didn't Work] Imported RSS from Blogger ("Tools | Basic | Blog Tools | Import"), then importing it on WordPress ("Tools | Import"). This I think not really work. I just tried.
[SUCCESS] Downloaded a WordPress plugin called Blogger RSS Import v1.2.1 by Ady Romantika, installed and used it. All my post, comments and even categories are successfully migrated to WordPress.
Blog Post Link (Permalinks) Settings
On "Settings | Permalinks", select "Custom Structure" for "Custom Settings". Put in /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html on the edit box. Click "Save Changes" button.
I encountered a problem here. It says that I should write put on a code on my .htaccess. Since I don't have an existing .htaccess file, I created one.
[Didn't Work] Created a file .htaccess and uploaded to my blog's root directory. The .htaccess file has the following source code as instructed by WordPress.
[Didn't Work] Dean's Permalinks Migration WordPress plugin by Dean Lee. Unfortunately, I'm one of those unlucky persons. To some, this works perfectly.
[SUCCESS] Back to the .htaccess file. I added an additional line of code:
Options +FollowSymlinks
Here's the full source code of the .htaccess file.
That's it!!! To those of you who are migrating from Blogger to WordPress, and are having trouble with the one click migrate tool and stuff, I hope this post helps.
Here's the plan:
- Download WordPress and install it on 000Webhost (free web hosting) - Done!
- On domain set-up (mine is at 1&1), go to DNS Settings ("DNS | Edit"), and put the following information:
- General Settings: choose "DNS"
- Name server *: choose "My Name Server"
- Primary name server: ns01.000webhost.com
- Secondary name server: choose "My secondary name server"
- 1st secondary name server: ns02.000webhost.com
- General Settings: choose "DNS"
- Wait for the domain status to be something like "update done", or something like that. - Waiting, but this is okay.
- While waiting, change back Blogger blog web link to the original link (on Blogger, "Settings | Publishing"). - Done!
- To copy all posts and comments to new WordPress blog
- To use the blog post link format "year/month/postname.html" just like that on Blogger
- To install plugin CommentLuv - Done!
On the process of migration, I encountered some problems that really frustrated me. Here are the problems and the work-around that I have done.
Post and Comments Migration
[Didn't Work] WordPress has this tool that can import posts, comments and users from Blogger. You can find it under "Tools | Import".
[Didn't Work] Imported RSS from Blogger ("Tools | Basic | Blog Tools | Import"), then importing it on WordPress ("Tools | Import"). This I think not really work. I just tried.
[SUCCESS] Downloaded a WordPress plugin called Blogger RSS Import v1.2.1 by Ady Romantika, installed and used it. All my post, comments and even categories are successfully migrated to WordPress.
Blog Post Link (Permalinks) Settings
On "Settings | Permalinks", select "Custom Structure" for "Custom Settings". Put in /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html on the edit box. Click "Save Changes" button.
I encountered a problem here. It says that I should write put on a code on my .htaccess. Since I don't have an existing .htaccess file, I created one.
[Didn't Work] Created a file .htaccess and uploaded to my blog's root directory. The .htaccess file has the following source code as instructed by WordPress.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
[Didn't Work] Dean's Permalinks Migration WordPress plugin by Dean Lee. Unfortunately, I'm one of those unlucky persons. To some, this works perfectly.
[SUCCESS] Back to the .htaccess file. I added an additional line of code:
Options +FollowSymlinks
Here's the full source code of the .htaccess file.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
That's it!!! To those of you who are migrating from Blogger to WordPress, and are having trouble with the one click migrate tool and stuff, I hope this post helps.
7 reactions for this post.:
It’s my turn to welcome you to the Wordpress community. I hope you’ll enjoy Wordpress as much as I do. I’ve realized that the power of Wordpress is not really visible on the front-end, but its power really under the hood. Ayoko na magswitch back sa blogger hehehe.
About the issues, I think that happens kasi free hosting ang 000webhost, that’s why limited ang access.
Anyway, maraming permalinks migration plugins. I used the Blogger permalinks for my blog.
Nice tutorial!
Thanks =) I love WordPress kc PHP sya. Kung sakaling meron akong gustong gawin, nde na ako mahihirapan.
Pero sa totoo lang, nafrustrate ako haha
Now I am thinking twice if I will migrate to my TechnoTechniques blog to WP, I guess I’ll just leave it at Blogger. I have decided to create a fresh blog in WP that I will SEO, actually it is already installed in my host. Here it is Digital Journal. I’ll start posting fast in this blog tomorrow probably.
I made the template for this blog he he he from scratch.
uy pastilan nice color ah, ang lamig sa mata nung new blog mo
hmmm seo, i hope i can apply seo here. dahan dahan ako, one at a time :p
parang gusto ko na rin mag migrate
pero gawa na lang din siguro ako ng bago from scratch with my own domain…
hay. di ko kayang maging full-time blogger… hehe
i’ll keep these info for further reference
Gusto ko sana ilipat yung main blog ko sa WP kaso ang inaalala ko yung PR baka mawala, dami pa naman akong ops he he he kaya gawa na lang ako ng bago na malinis para fresh and start for my study in SEO, yun ang aaralin ko sa blog na bago.
@pchi sige, thanks :) pareho kayo ni pastilan ng plans =)
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