¿Quieres migrar tu blog de Blogger a WordPress?
Aunque Blogger es una excelente herramienta gratuita para empezar a bloguear, muchos principiantes pronto se dan cuenta de sus limitaciones y quieren pasarse a WordPress para acceder a características más potentes.
En este artículo, te mostraremos cómo cambiar correctamente de Blogger a WordPress sin perder posiciones en Google.
¿Por qué pasar de Blogger a WordPress?
Blogger es una popular plataforma de blogs creada por Google. Permite a cualquiera crear un blog gratuito utilizando su cuenta de Google.
Sin embargo, muchos principiantes pronto se dan cuenta de que hay muchas limitaciones en lo que pueden hacer con su blog gratuito de Blogger.
WordPress, en cambio, te da la propiedad completa de tu sitio web. También te permite añadir las características necesarias para hacer crecer tu blog y monetizar tu contenido. Además, puedes realizar todas las optimizaciones SEO necesarias para mejorar tu posicionamiento. Hemos creado una comparación detallada entre WordPress y Blogger.
Es importante tener en cuenta que cuando hablamos de WordPress, estamos hablando de WordPress.org autoalojado, que NO debe confundirse con WordPress.com, que es una solución de alojamiento que tiene sus propias limitaciones. Para más detalles, consulte nuestro artículo sobre la diferencia entre WordPress.com y WordPress.org.
WordPress.org es la popular plataforma “WordPress”, de la que probablemente haya oído hablar porque alimenta el 43% de todos los sitios web de Internet.
Dicho esto, vamos a ver cómo pasar correctamente de Blogger a WordPress sin perder la posición en las búsquedas de Google ni el tráfico del sitio web.
Estos son los pasos que seguiremos para pasar de Blogger a WordPress:
¿Preparados? Primeros pasos.
Tutorial en vídeo
Si no desea ver el tutorial en vídeo, puede seguir leyendo la versión en texto que figura a continuación.
Paso 1: Acceder al alojamiento de WordPress
Para empezar con WordPress, necesitará un nombre de dominio y alojamiento web.
A modo de recordatorio, el nombre de dominio es la dirección de tu sitio web que la gente teclea para llegar a tu blog, y el alojamiento web es donde se almacenan los archivos de tu sitio web. Ambos son IMPRESCINDIBLES para crear cualquier tipo de blog o sitio web.
Dicho esto, recomendamos utilizar Bluehost. Es una de las empresas de alojamiento más grandes del mundo y es un socio de alojamiento de WordPress recomendado oficialmente.
Debido a que WPBeginner es el mayor sitio de recursos de WordPress, han acordado ofrecer a nuestros lectores un nombre de dominio gratuito y un 60% de descuento en alojamiento. Básicamente, puedes empezar por sólo 2,75 dólares al mes.
Si, por alguna razón, usted prefiere ir con una alternativa Bluehost, entonces le recomendamos que utilice ya sea SiteGround o Hostinger porque ambos son excelentes soluciones.
Una vez que se haya suscrito al plan de alojamiento de WordPress y haya establecido su nombre de dominio, puede continuar con el paso de instalación de WordPress.
Si se ha accedido a Bluehost a través de nuestro enlace anterior, WordPress se instalará automáticamente.
Si ha utilizado un proveedor de alojamiento de WordPress diferente, deberá instalar WordPress siguiendo nuestra guía definitiva sobre cómo instalar WordPress.
Una vez instalado WordPress, es hora de trasladar su contenido de Blogger a WordPress.
Oferta adicional gratuita: Como muchos de vosotros nos lo habéis pedido, ahora ofrecemos un servicio gratuito de migración de Blogger a WordPress como parte de nuestro servicio gratuito de creación de blogs en WordPress. Esto significa que uno de los miembros de nuestro equipo de expertos hará toda la migración por ti (100% gratis). Sí, puedes cambiar literalmente de Blogger a WordPress sin ningún riesgo.
Nota: Nuestro servicio gratuito de migración de blogger es para blogs pequeños que tengan menos de 1000 entradas. Podemos ofrecer un servicio de migración para sitios de blogger más grandes, pero será un servicio de pago.
Sin embargo, si te gusta aprender y hacer las cosas por ti mismo, puedes seguir nuestro tutorial paso a paso.
Paso 1: Exporta tu blog de Blogger
Lo primero que tienes que hacer es exportar el contenido de tu blog de Blogger.
Para ello, visite el sitio web de Blogger y acceda al tablero de su cuenta.
Después, ve a la página de ajustes. Desplázate hasta la sección “Gestionar blog” y haz clic en el botón “Copia de seguridad del contenido”.
Aparecerá un mensaje / ventana emergente mostrando qué se incluye exactamente en la copia de seguridad de Blogger.
Debe hacer clic en el botón “Descargar” para continuar.
El contenido de tu blog de Blogger se descargará en tu ordenador en un archivo XML.
Una vez finalizada la descarga, es hora de importar el contenido de Blogger a tu sitio de WordPress.
Paso 2: Importar Blogger a WordPress
Para empezar a importar tu sitio de Blogger a WordPress, accede a tu área de administrador de WordPress y visita Herramientas ” Importar.
En la página de importación, haz clic en el enlace “Instalar ahora” que aparece debajo de Blogger.
WordPress descargará e instalará el plugin Blogger Importer.
Cuando termine de instalarse, haga clic en el enlace “Ejecutar importador” para continuar.
WordPress le pedirá que suba el archivo XML en la pantalla Importar Blogger. Este es el archivo que descargaste en el Paso 1.
Simplemente haga clic en el botón “Elegir archivo” y suba el archivo XML que descargó anteriormente.
A continuación, haga clic en el botón “Subir archivo e importar” para continuar.
WordPress subirá el archivo de importación. Si el archivo de importación es demasiado grande, es posible que aparezca un mensaje de error.
En este caso, deberá aumentar el límite máximo de subida de archivos. Si el archivo es pequeño, no se producirá ningún error.
A continuación, se te pedirá que asignes entradas a un autor. Si tienes varios autores en tu blog de Blogger, puedes crear una nueva cuenta de usuario para cada autor. También puedes asignar estas entradas a autores existentes en tu sitio web WordPress.
Después de hacer su selección, haga clic en el botón “Enviar” para continuar.
WordPress importará todo el contenido del archivo de exportación de Blogger a tu sitio WordPress. Puedes ver el contenido visitando la página Entradas ” Todas las entradas.
Paso 3: Establecer Enlaces permanentes
Enlaces permanentes es el término utilizado para la estructura de URL de páginas individuales. WordPress viene con una característica que le permite establecer una estructura de URL SEO-friendly.
Como estás importando contenido de Blogger, necesitas que la estructura de URL sea lo más parecida posible a la de tu antiguo sitio de Blogger.
Para establecer enlaces permanentes, debe ir a Ajustes ” Enlaces permanentes en su escritorio de WordPress y elegir la opción “Estructura personalizada”.
A continuación, deberá añadir el siguiente texto en la casilla situada junto al campo de estructura personalizada:
/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html
Esta estructura de enlaces permanentes hace que las URL de las entradas de tu blog sean similares a las URL de tu antiguo blog de Blogger.
Sin embargo, a veces la URL de la entrada de tu blog, también conocida como slug en WordPress, no coincide con los slugs utilizados por Blogger.
Para corregirlo, tendrá que crear y ejecutar un pequeño fragmento de código.
Recomendamos añadir este código PHP usando el plugin WPCode. Es la forma más segura de añadir código personalizado a su sitio web WordPress. Para más detalles, consulte nuestra guía sobre cómo copiar y pegar fragmentos de código en WordPress.
add_action( 'init', 'wpb_update_slug' );
function wpb_update_slug() {
global $wpdb;
$result = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT post_id, meta_value FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_key = 'blogger_permalink' ");
$wpdb->print_error();
foreach ($result as $row){
$slug = explode("/",$row->meta_value);
$slug = explode(".",$slug[3]);
$wpdb->query("UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET post_name ='$slug[0]' WHERE ID = '$row->post_id' ");
}
echo "DONE";
}
Después de guardar el código, sólo tiene que visitar cualquier página de su sitio WordPress para activar este script.
Importante: Después de que el script se haya ejecutado, no olvides desactivarlo o borrarlo de tu biblioteca WPCode porque solo necesita ejecutarse una vez.
Oferta gratuita de bonificación: ¿No quiere lidiar con códigos? Lo tenemos cubierto. Como muchos de vosotros nos lo habéis pedido, ahora ofrecemos un servicio gratuito de migración de Blogger a WordPress como parte de nuestro servicio gratuito de creación de blogs en WordPress.
Esto significa que uno de los miembros de nuestro equipo de expertos realizará toda la migración por ti (100% gratis). Sí, puedes cambiar literalmente de Blogger a WordPress sin ningún riesgo.
Paso 4: Establecer las redirecciones de Blogger a WordPress
El paso más importante a la hora de trasladar cualquier sitio web es establecer la redirección adecuada para no perder el tráfico existente ni las clasificaciones SEO.
Nota: Si tu blog de Blogger tiene su propio dominio personalizado en lugar de blogspot.com, puede que tengas que apuntar los servidores de nombres de tu dominio a tu proveedor de alojamiento. Para obtener instrucciones, sigue nuestro tutorial sobre cómo cambiar el dominio personalizado de blogger a WordPress.
La parte crucial de la redirección es garantizar que sus usuarios aterricen en la misma página del nuevo dominio a la que intentaban acceder en el sitio antiguo.
Al mismo tiempo, también debe asegurarse de que los motores de búsqueda entienden que su sitio web se ha trasladado a esta nueva ubicación.
Para ello, debes instalar y activar el plugin Blogger to WordPress Redirection. Para más detalles, consulta nuestra guía paso a paso sobre cómo instalar un plugin de WordPress.
Una vez activado, debe visitar la página Herramientas ” Redirección de Blogger a WordPress y hacer clic en el botón “Iniciar configuración”.
El plugin detectará ahora la URL de tu blog de Blogger y te mostrará la opción de obtener un código de redirección. Sigue adelante y haz clic en el botón ‘Obtener código’ al lado de tu URL de Blogger.
Ahora generará un fragmento de código que necesitas para redirigir correctamente a los usuarios de tu antiguo blog de Blogger a tu nuevo sitio de WordPress.
A continuación, tienes que acceder a tu Escritorio de Blogger e ir a la página “Temas”. Haz clic en la flecha desplegable del botón “Personalizar” situado junto a tu tema y, a continuación, selecciona la opción “Editar HTML”.
Blogger mostrará ahora el código HTML personalizado para la plantilla de tu tema. Si has personalizado el tema de Blogger, puedes copiar el código y guardarlo en tu ordenador como copia de seguridad.
Si no, puedes borrarlo todo. A continuación, copia el código que muestra el plugin en tu sitio de WordPress y pégalo en el editor de temas de Blogger.
No olvides hacer clic en el botón “Guardar tema” para guardar los cambios.
A continuación, tenemos que establecer las redirecciones para los usuarios móviles.
Tienes que volver a la página Temas del Escritorio de tu blog de Blogger. Esta vez tienes que hacer clic en el botón de engranaje debajo de la vista previa móvil de tu blog.
Aparecerá una ventana emergente en la que deberás seleccionar la opción “No. Mostrar tema de escritorio en dispositivos móviles”.
A continuación, haz clic en el botón “Guardar”.
Eso es todo, tu blog de Blogger ahora redirigirá a todos los visitantes de tu blog a tu nuevo blog de WordPress.
También puedes utilizar All in One SEO (AIOSEO) para redirigir entradas y páginas de Blogger a WordPress. El plugin ofrece una potente característica de gestión de redireccionamientos que te permite establecer redireccionamientos completos del sitio a tu nuevo sitio.
Además, puede activar el seguimiento de errores 404 y detectar cualquier enlace roto que pueda producirse al trasladar su sitio a WordPress. Esto ayudará a mejorar la experiencia del usuario y no perderás posiciones en el ranking de palabras clave.
Paso 5: Trasladar otros contenidos de Blogger a WordPress
En este paso, trasladaremos el contenido restante del antiguo blog de Blogger a tu nuevo blog de WordPress. Esto puede requerir algo de trabajo manual, dependiendo de los ajustes / contenido de su blog.
1. Trasladar páginas de Blogger a WordPress
La herramienta de importación de Blogger de WordPress solo importa entradas de Blogger e ignora las páginas.
Para trasladar tus páginas a WordPress, tendrás que editar cada página en tu blog de Blogger, copiar su contenido y, a continuación, crear manualmente una página en WordPress.
Para saber más acerca de las páginas, consulte nuestro artículo sobre la diferencia entre entradas y páginas en WordPress.
Ahora, te encontrarás con otro problema / conflicto / incidencia. Las páginas de Blogger tienen URL con este aspecto:
http://example.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html
La URL de su página de WordPress tendrá este aspecto:
http://example.com/about-us
Para corregir esto, necesitará utilizar el plugin All in One SEO (AIOSEO). Para obtener instrucciones, consulta nuestra guía para principiantes sobre cómo crear redireccionamientos en WordPress.
2. Widgets
Al igual que Blogger, algunos temas de WordPress también utilizan widgets para añadir contenido a la barra lateral de tu blog.
Para añadir widgets, debe visitar la página Apariencia ” Widgets en su escritorio de WordPress y simplemente arrastrar y soltar los widgets en las barras laterales. Para obtener instrucciones detalladas, consulte nuestra guía sobre cómo añadir y utilizar widgets en WordPress.
Si estás buscando un widget específico que no ves en WordPress por defecto, entonces es probable que necesites un plugin de WordPress. Puedes buscar en la categoría de mejores plugins de WordPress de WPBeginner para encontrar la funcionalidad que buscas.
3. Feeds RSS
Los motores de búsqueda y los usuarios que se suscriban a las entradas de su blog a través de feeds RSS podrán seguir encontrándolo. Sin embargo, no recibirán ningún contenido nuevo.
Para corregirlo, visita la página de ajustes de tu cuenta de Blogger. A continuación, desplázate hasta la sección “Site feed” y haz clic en “Post feed redirect URL”.
Aparecerá una ventana emergente en la que deberá añadir la URL del feed RSS de su sitio web WordPress.
La URL de su feed de WordPress tendrá este aspecto:
http://example.com/feed
No olvide sustituir ejemplo.com por su propio nombre de dominio.
Haga clic en el botón “Guardar” para añadir la URL y establecer los ajustes.
Paso 6. Cosas que hacer después de migrar de Blogger a WordPress
Ahora que has trasladado correctamente tu blog de Blogger a WordPress, veamos qué más puedes hacer para mejorar tu blog.
Hemos creado una lista de las cosas más importantes que debe hacer después de instalar WordPress.
WordPress es bastante fácil de usar. Sin embargo, de vez en cuando descubrirás cosas nuevas con las que necesitarás ayuda. Aquí es donde WPBeginner entra en juego.
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- WPBeginner Blog – El lugar central para todos nuestros tutoriales y guías de WordPress.
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Esperamos que este artículo te haya ayudado a cambiar de Blogger a WordPress sin afectar a tu posicionamiento en Google. También puedes consultar nuestra guía SEO para WordPress paso a paso para principiantes y nuestra selección de los mejores plugins de WordPress para hacer crecer tu blog.
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Marco Dickert says
Hi there,
I just tried to migrate my blogger-blog to my self-hosted wordpress. Almost all things work as expected, but not the redirection from blogger. I inserted a logging function in the template code for the wordpress-sided interface and recognized that this page does not get any parameters from the blogger redirection. That means I simply get redirected to my home page.
Is it possible that blogger changed variable names or something? Does anyone has an idea how I could fix that problem?
Cheers, Marco
WPBeginner Support says
Marco, we have just updated the post with a completely new re-written version. Please follow it now, hopefully it will resolve your issue.
Administrador
Marco Dickert says
@WPBEGINNER Support:
First of all: It’s really nice that you’ve updated this article! I guess you help many users with that.
Meanwhile I solved my problem, and wrote my solution in an email to Amit Agarwal, but he seems to be very busy.
Since I come from Germany I don’t get “blogspot.com”-Domains in my Google search results, but “blogspot.de”. Others in German-speaking Europe get also different TLDs like “blogspot.at” or “blogspot.ch”. That is a problem for the template code. I could fix that simply by changing these lines:
$tld_fix = preg_replace("/blogspot\.[a-zA-Z0-9]+/", "blogspot.com", $old_url); $permalink = explode("blogspot.com", $tld_fix);With this fix it should work all around the world. Maybe you can implement it in your post; it might be useful for some people.
Cheers, Marco
WPBeginner Support says
Thanks Marco for this really useful fix. We have updated the article to include this.
nil says
Hey,
I have the same problem. Tried your script but when I go to an old posting I just get redirected to my first page, not to the post.
Regards
nil
Liza Pritz says
Wouldn’t it be easier to use a plugin? Something like “CMS2CMS Blogger to WordPress Converter” ? With this plugin, it is posible to migreta the content, the set up 301 redirect and keep all the visitors and ranking on a new WordPress site?
Does anyone knows something about that?
Saad Ansari says
Nice efforts. One shop stop guide for Blogger to WordPress migration.
Is there any way of importing all images from blogger and put them all together in WordPress? I’ve a huge number of images with me. Uploading each of them MANUALLY would be a nightmare, isn’t it? So do let me know if there is any smart and efficient plan B for it. Thanks!
Xuhair Raxa says
great post !!! but i have a question.. that is after the conversion,will the domain be .com or blogspot.com ? As i have a blog http://tricksnsolutions.com which is wp blog after making it a blogger blog shall it remain to tricksnsolutions.com or tricksnsolutions.blogspot.com ? please solve my confusion
WPBeginner Support says
This guide is for switching from Blogger to WordPress not the other way around.
Administrador
Briana M says
My old website is with Blogger, but I am switching over to WordPress and using a new domain name. I already have hundreds of business cards with my old domain name listed (###.blogspot.com) and I want that old domain name through Blogger to redirect to my new domain name and WordPress website. How can I go about doing this?
WPBeginner Support says
You can do so following the steps mentioned in the article above.
Administrador
Kanchana says
thanks ,,,
Bryan says
Hi there,
I am a newbie.
I just wanted to ask a quick question:
When I import my blogger posts into wordpress, will they be deleted from blogger or will they still be there with no changes?
Thanks
WPBeginner Support says
They will still be there if you don’t explicitly delete them.
Administrador
Christian says
Hi!
The Blogger code doesn’t work today. I think the markup is obsolete because Blogger says the following by submitting the code from WP Beginner:
“The value of attribute “dir” associated with an element type “html” must not contain the ‘<' character."
I just replaced simple and double quotes and other ways to solve this, but is completely impossible. Does anyone know if Blogger has made related to the markup?
Thank you all.
hafzaa says
Very well explained…will try it..hope so it may work…
Kapil Dev Singh says
I have moved from blogger to WordPress and carried out all the steps. I am encountering two problems-
1. The blogger link for specific blogs is not taking me to the wordpress
2. When someone wants to come to wordpress following a specific blog link, it shows – the file could not be found and give a list of all the published blogs. Once clicked on the specific blog for which the link was followed, it opens up.
Regards
Desi says
I keep getting this message in blogger
Error parsing XML, line 2, column 73: The value of attribute “dir” associated with an element type “html” must not contain the ‘<' character.
anyone else?
Carl says
(Previous comment did not include code… how can I do that?)
Not sure if something has fundamentally changed with the blogger importer or how posts info is stored in the database; But the code above for the wpbeginner-blogger.php failed for almost all my links. I ended up changing it to this:
<?php /* Template Name: Blogger Redirect (do not use) */ global $wpdb; $old_url = $_GET['q']; if ($old_url != "") { $permalink = explode("blogspot.com.au", $old_url); $new_url = $permalink[1]; header ("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: $new_url"); } ?>Anyone see any reason this is bad? It seems to work perfectly, I’m still trying to figure out why it was done any other way to begin with… As long as you fix the permalinks to match the old blogger ones
Dean says
Hi, hopefully someone will be able to help. Whenever I click one of my old blogger posts it just sends me to my new wordpress site’s homepage not to the correct blog post? any ideas how to fix this. thanks.
Raj Amal says
My old blogger posts it just sends me to my new wordpress site’s homepage not to the correct blog post. Plese help me
Paige says
I’m having the same issues. How did you fix this?
Sanskar says
I am stuck with the infinite loop. The website keeps refreshing and never loads. I am not sure how to fix it.
Sanskar says
OK, I am sorry about the previous comment. I was using Switch hosts firefox plugin and I was browsing on my local copy. My website has not gone live yet. Though I have clicked on Go live button on Godaddy, and looks like DNS settings are updated, but my website has gone in an infinite loop and never loads. It loads the title, loads the favicon and I also see it loading chrome extensions like alexa and adblock, but then it refreshes and starts loading again. This never stops.
Do you think it is the problem with DNS? or that I did not follow the tutorial properly? It has been already 11 hours since I updated the DNS. Both my domain and hosting is bought from Godaddy.
WPBeginner Support says
Using an FTP client, connect to your website and download .htaccess file to your computer. Then delete the one on your live site. See if this resolves the issue. If it does, then this means there is nothing wrong with DNS settings of your website and it was probably a redirection issue. You may also contact your web host for support if this does not solve your issue.
Administrador
Gari Anne says
Everything worked perfectly! Thanks! How Long do I have to leave the Published “Blogger” page on my new word press blog? Or is there a way to hide that page?
Carol says
I’m still having the same problems but none of my comments have been published or answered. Did the guy who wrote this post give up on it? I’ve noticed a few people had the same problem – is it something that can be fixed? It would be great to get a response.
Thanks
carol says
ok – I’ve been reuploading the text doc over and over and one thing that has changed is – I’m using a Mac and my doc is .rtf. When I take the .rtf off after the .php I get the line 16 error code but if I keep the.rtf on after the .php and I clink on any of my blogger posts it redirects to the Blogger page that I created for the redirect on my new website. Does that make sense? I don’t understand any of this php stuff so I don’t have any idea why it would do that just by adding or deleting the .rtf extension – but that’s what happens.
I hope you have some idea of how I can fix this. It seems like it’s something pretty simple – I just don’t know what.
carol says
i just redid all the the cpanel installation part and now the syntax error says line 16
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home4/craftyc/public_html/wp-content/themes/suffusion/wpbeginner-blogger.php on line 16
carol says
I just went through the whole process and when I click on “View Blog” on my Blogger page it redirects perfectly to my website (yay!), but if I click on any of the individual posts I get this error message:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home4/craftyc/public_html/wp-content/themes/suffusion/wpbeginner-blogger.php on line 15
I saw some people here getting syntax errors on different lines but I didn’t see anything to fix it.
Besplatne Knjige says
Hello!
I have this blogger blog, and I would like to build some backlinks on worpress blog. Is there any way to create some wordpress blog and automatically post parts of my original post from blogger with my link. Something like auto post on social networks…
I hope you understand what I want (my English is not so good)
Thank you
nick says
hi, i am about to carry out this process but i have one concern. my blogger address doesnt have the blogspot.com attached to it. i paid to have the domain showing just my blog name. however i still edit my blog with blogger. now i want to switch and im wondering if theres any step i need to do differently so as not to run into problems.
cheers
Sharon says
I have the same situation. I already bought my domain but still hosting it on blogger and I want to switch but I don’t know if I should follow the same steps as discussed here on this post. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Jackie Montalvo says
I have the same issue so I’d love to hear what my options are because I’ve wanted to switch ove but I wasn’t sure I could since I bought the domain name already. Please let me know!
WPBeginner Support says
You can manage your custom domain from the registrar website. Currently Blogger has stopped offering custom domain registration from the Blogger interface so most users need to purchase a domain from another registrar and then setup the domain to point to the Google servers. When moving this domain to a new web host you need to remove these settings from your domain control panel on the registrar’s website.
1. First find out your domain registrar.
2. Login to your domain registrar control panel.
3. Remove CNAME and A record settings pointing to Google servers.
4. Enter your new webhost’s settings into domain control panel.
Most WordPress hosting providers offer detailed guides on how to move a domain name to point to their servers.
Administrador
Holt Johnson says
I found the Blogger To WordPress plugin to be much simpler to use.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/blogger-to-wordpress-redirection/
Amanda says
Thank you SO much for posting that plugin …. I was going crazy trying different tutorials with none of them working!
Naomi Madelin says
I tried this, but get the message from WordPress that I can’t access Content nor fiddle with Themes in any way. So I’m now stuck!
Sagar says
Hello!
I want to migrate a blog on Blogger to WordPress which just has 15 pages, no posts, so I can do it manually, but I want to know about 301 redirect, how do I do it? Please can you help me with this?
Elaine Griffin says
I’m very confused, because when I go to tools -> import, I am prompted to download a plugin. Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Editorial Staff says
Yes you have to do that.
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Emma says
Does anyone know if you can import from 2 different blogger blogs into one wp?
Jan Bear says
Thanks for a useful post.
When you’ve finished this process, will you be able to do future blog posts in WordPress, or do you have to continue using Blogger as your blog platform?
Does this integrate the WordPress and Blogger blog posts? Or will they be on separate pages of the new site?
Editorial Staff says
You would have to use WordPress for all new posts.
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Wendi Gratz says
Never mind – I figured it out. For those who run into the same problem. . .
When you copy and paste the PHP coding make sure there isn’t a blank line above the start of the <?php.
I don't know if mine snuck in during copying or pasting – but I removed it and everything works perfectly now.
Lenin says
For some users, all the blogspot posts might be redirected to the new blog homepage (and not the individual new post URL). This is because the original link is blogspot.in and not blogspot.com
To fix this issue, add the following line of code after the link $permalink = explode(“blogspot.com”, $old_url);
if(count($permalink) == 1) //we cant find blogspot.com in the URL lets try for blogspot.in
{
$permalink = explode(“blogspot.in”, $old_url);
}
Tim says
Great post. Unfortunately after doing this Google marked my old Blogger blog as a spam blog! I’m going through the process to get it unlocked, so hopefully that will solve it. Great tutorial though and very simple to follow – thanks!
John Pile says
This is a really great step-by-step tutorial. Unfortunately, I missed one of the wpbeginner.com links in the replacement template for my blogger site. It resulted in redirecting to your website, which then prompted Blogger to immediately mark my blog as SPAM.
I fixed the template and now everything redirects correctly, but I had to request that my blog be reviewed or else it will be deleted in 22 days.
I’m wondering if anyone else has ran into this issue and how the review process went? I used one of my test websites for this, so I won’t be incredibly disappointed if the original blogger site is deleted, but I did want to offer this warning to others. I recommend using CTRL-F to replace all occurrences of wpbeginner.com in the template.
-John
Tim says
I replaced all instances and it still marked my old blog as spam. It must just be the fact that it’s doing a complete redirect that makes them think it could be spam. I’ve just kicked off the review process, so I’ll have to see how it goes. Did yours come back ok in the end?
R. endymion says
Hello, I’ve also replaced all instances but it is still marked as SPAM. Has anybody found a solution for this ?
Thank you.
R. endymion says
I report to google and they change it in only one day. We just need to be patient.
jose morales says
I just downloaded all my site in Blogger however it is not showing the whole article… any ideas?
Salue says
i’v done all of this THANK YOU
was wondering 1 thing can i delete the blogger page that i made ? because its showing in the menu bar like next to about me
zed kosnar says
Hello again! managed to fix the other error, and now i get redirected from Blogger to wordpress, but if I click on an old post, of blogger I get his message “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_LNUMBER in /nfs/c09/h01/mnt/127155/domains/desdeabajo.net/html/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/WPBeginner-Blogger.php on line 5” hope you can guide me here… Thanx in advance!
zed kosnar says
Hello!
I followed the instructions but when I posted the HTML (step 5) try to check “a preview” I get this message “Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: Comment must start with “<!–".
Error 500 " I double checked data and still getting this message, doesn't save if I click try to go ahead… Any thoughts what I could be doing wrong? Thank you!
David says
Hi, on step 5 I get this message:
Error parsing XML, line 3, column 73: The value of attribute “dir” associated with an element type “null” must not contain the ‘<' character.
Can you help?
nick says
solve this issue? im experiencing the same error
Alexander says
The problem occurs if you do not press “Revert to classic template”. Even if you did not changed the template at the beginning you have to revert to classic template, then it should work.
Joanna Mecina says
Hello, i have a blogger template, how ca i convert it to wordpress? Thanks
Linda Leyble says
Hi – very good post. I switched last month from Blogger and I am very happy. But, since Feedburner is going away – do you recommend that we use FeedBlitz instead? Very confused about this.
And also – when I left Blogger – I lost many of my followers on GoogleFriend Connect. I emailed my followers there and alerted them to my new site. Slowly but surely I am gaining them back on my new site. I also emailed the RSS followers on Feedburner and also on Bloglovin. Do you recommend any other ways for people to follow your blog?
Thanks,
Linda
Editorial Staff says
We haven’t seen any public press release by Google that says FeedBurner is going away. Sure there are some speculations around the industry that it is, but only time will tell. We are sticking with feedburner for now.
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Kaitlin says
Everything looked great, but now that I’m clicking past links (posted to facebook) to check if the redirect is working properly, I’m getting this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/81/9774981/html/wp-content/themes/simple-catch/WPBeginner-Blogger.php on line 3
Help?
Editorial Staff says
Line 3 is the name of the template. There has to be another error.
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Jeanne says
I just migrated a blog from blogger to WordPress but used a plugin to perform a similar task as above. I don’t like plugins and am thinking of deactivating it and doing this instead.
Question though: One thing I found that did NOT work when I did this was that pages did not redirect. Posts redirected just fine with no problems at all (well, I did have to have my hosting provider whitelist mod security) but PAGES would not redirect at all (and, worse, not only would they not redirect, links pointing to old blogger pages would return a “page not found” error).
Before I deactivate the plugin I’m using, and go this route, I’m curious if this will work for pages….Any comment?
Thanks!!
Gretchen Louise says
I’m not seeing the “Revert to Classic Template” anywhere. Have they removed that option?
Dave Morrow says
Agreed, I am having the same problem, the newest Blogger does not seem to have that option… Anyone else have an answer for this?
Tom G says
Go to templates…
Scroll to the bottom of the page.
It says something like “Classic Template” or something like that. I can;t get to it now that I have done it.
Then scroll to the bottom of that refreshed page. It’s at the bottom.
Sorry if this doesn’t make sense. It was not as cut and dry as listed above.
Chetan says
Nice Post. I was wondering if moving from blogspot to wordpress is possible if I have a custom domain hosted on blogger?
Look forward to your reply.
Monkey says
Hi, Great tutorial thank you.
Does this work with any wordpress theme?
I am very new to WordPress. So apologies if this is an ignorant question.
Editorial Staff says
Yes this should work with any WordPress theme.
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Ahmad Awais says
Nice tutorial Faizan Bro, Finally you are using WordPress
I hope you are not quite aware of the fact that WP is much strong than Blogger platform.
Keep up your great work.
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I would rather say that instead of page template you can slowly move on to each post and use 301 redirect plugin for redirecting and making your blog independent of the old blogger’s template.
Syed Faizan Ali says
Thanks Bro, Yeah After going through lots of Articles and Tutorials I discovered WordPress is the best Blogging Platform I have converted few of my Blogger Blog to The Self-Hosted WordPress Blog.
Your Idea is Cool but if we have tons of Posts like 4000 posts, then redirecting would become stressful. This method is quite good, takes less time and gives perfect results.
Derek says
Hi Stephen,
For step 4 how do you write “blogger” in the URL? Click on change permalinks? I did that and change the permalink to end with /blogger but still revert back to previous URL that end with ?page_id=149.
Syed Faizan Ali says
Brother Create a New Page and Write The Title blogger, Choose WPbeginner from the Template Menu don’t Worry About the URL And Publish it, Now Open the Published Page Again From Your WordPress ADMIN PANEL and you will be able to See the URL beneath the Page Title, Just Click EDIT and rename it to /blogger and don’t Forget to UPDATE THE POST.
Also Update your WordPress Permalink Go to WordPress Dashboard >> Settings >> Permalinks >> Custom Structure >> /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html.
Gautam Doddamani says
i was using blogger earlier but changed to wordpress since it is the best cms around and also i get full control over my site…and there are a ton of tutorials for wordpress which makes blogging more easier and fixing site less time consuming
Syed Faizan Ali says
Yes, indeed WordPress has the most powerful Blogging Platform. Keep it up on Good Things Peace and Blessing.
Guppu Boss says
Nice Tutorial Faizan. I have just purchased hosting and after my exams i am going to transfer my blogger blog to wordpress. You explained all steps very well. Will follow this tutorial again while transfering my blog.
Syed Faizan Ali says
Thanks For Sharing Nice Views, Yes Brother Feel Free To Apply This Tutorial Any Time You Like. Its Great That you are thinking to move from Blogger to WordPress, it will give more power to you. Peace Mate
Mairaj Pirzada says
Great Post, well done Syed Brother! You did a Nice Work! Keep it up but I don’t need this post as My site is now setup on WordPress!
Syed Faizan Ali says
Oh it’s Splendid, that you are already using WordPress. Thanks Buddy. Peace and Blessings
Stephen Cronin says
Hi. Have you tested that PageRank is preserved?
The 301 is happening on your WordPress site, not your Blogger site. It is merely telling Google to use one of your WordPress pages instead of another one of your WordPress pages (and transfer PageRank between these).
The 301 is not telling Google to use your WordPress site instead of your Blogger site, or to transfer any PageRank from your Blogger site to your WordPress one.
You’re using JavaScript to move *users* from the Blogger site to the WordPress one, but there is no evidence that Google will treat this as a 301 and transfer any pagerank.
A few years ago, the prevailing SEO wisdom would have been that Google couldn’t even crawl the JavaScript, so the Googlebot wouldn’t even go to the WordPress site. Googlebot can now execute some JavaScript, but still – what makes you think it will treat it as a 301?
I’m not having a go at you personally, but this is the first I’ve heard of this (I can’t find anyone else in SEO circlet talking about this) and I’d be really interested in seeing the evidence that this works. Thanks.
Editorial Staff says
Hey Stephen,
This is a guest post. However from the looks of the code, the canonical tags are the ones that should do the work.
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Stephen Cronin says
Okay, I missed that. That will probably work as well as anything. #mybad.