“Will I lose my Google rankings if I move from Blogger to WordPress?” That’s the first question we hear from anyone thinking about making the switch.
We get it. However, after helping many bloggers make this move, we can say with confidence that you can switch from Blogger to WordPress without losing your Google rankings.
In this guide, we’ll show you the exact steps we use, from exporting your Blogger blog to setting up the redirects that protect your search traffic.
Quick Summary: Switching from Blogger to WordPress requires exporting your Blogger content, importing it into a self-hosted WordPress site, and redirecting the old URLs to your new site.
Estimated time: 1 to 2 hours for a small blog.
Tools: Free BtW Importer plugin and two short code snippets.
Cost: The migration costs nothing. You’ll still need to pay for hosting and a domain name.
WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org: What’s the Difference?
There are two types of WordPress, and this guide uses WordPress.org, also known as self-hosted WordPress. WordPress.com is a hosted service where you cannot install plugins on the free plan. You’ll need to upgrade to a paid plan to unlock plugins and follow this tutorial.
For a full breakdown, see our comparison of WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org.
That being said, let’s take a look at how to move from Blogger to WordPress while keeping your Google rankings and traffic. Here are the steps we’ll cover:
- Step 1: Sign Up for WordPress Hosting
- Step 2: Export Your Blogger Blog
- Step 3: Import Blogger to WordPress
- Step 4: Setting Up Permalinks
- Step 5: Set Up Redirects From Blogger to WordPress
- Step 6: Moving Other Content From Blogger to WordPress
- Step 7: Verify Your Migration in Google Search Console
- Step 8. Things to Do After Migrating From Blogger to WordPress
- Frequently Asked Questions About Switching From Blogger to WordPress
Step 1: Sign Up for WordPress Hosting
To get started with WordPress, you will need a domain name and web hosting. A domain name is your website’s address, and web hosting is where your website files live.
You can choose any WordPress hosting provider that you want, like Bluehost or Hostinger. Both are officially recommended WordPress hosting providers and offer a free domain name for the first year.
For this tutorial, we used Bluehost, which automatically installed WordPress when we signed up, so we were able to log into our new site right away.
Step 2: Export Your Blogger Blog
Now that your WordPress site is ready, the next step is to export your content from Blogger.
Log in to your Blogger account, pick your blog, and click Settings in the left menu. Scroll down to the ‘Manage blog’ section, click ‘Back up content’, and then click ‘Download’.
Blogger no longer downloads an XML file straight away. Instead, the Download button now opens Google Takeout, which is Google’s tool for downloading your data, with Blogger already selected.
Click ‘Next step’, keep the default settings, and click ‘Create export’.
Google will email you when the export is ready, which usually takes a few minutes for a small blog.
Click ‘Download archive’ in that email and save the .zip file to your computer.
Next, unzip the file. Open the Takeout folder, then Blogger, then Blogs, and then the folder with your blog’s name.
The file you need is called feed.atom. It holds your posts, pages, and comments.
If Takeout splits your export into more than one .zip file, check each one for a feed.atom file. You will import them one after another in the next step.
Note: Keep a copy of the whole archive in a safe place, like cloud storage or an external drive. It is your backup of the original blog. The Albums folder inside it holds every image you ever uploaded to Blogger, which we come back to in Step 6.
Step 3: Import Blogger to WordPress
With the feed.atom file on your computer, you can now import your content into WordPress.
WordPress comes with a default Blogger importer, available on the Tools » Import page in the admin area. However, that importer has been broken since July 2025. That is when Google moved Blogger backups into Google Takeout and changed the file format at the same time.
Luckily, there are alternative plugins you can use.
- BtW Importer – This is the plugin we’ll be using in this tutorial. It imports posts, pages, images, and even set up redirects. The downside is that it doesn’t import comments.
- Blogger Importer Extended – Imports posts, pages, images, and comments, but the free version is limited to 20 posts. You can use this if you have fewer posts or if you want to import comments.
First, install and activate the BtW Importer plugin. For more details, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Upon activation, click the new BtW Importer item in your WordPress admin menu. The page starts with a short list of things to know before you import.
Read it, then tick the ‘I’ve read and understood the information above’ box.
In Step 1, click the ‘Choose your Blogger export file’ button and select the feed.atom file. Then click the ‘Upload File’ button.
In Step 2, click the ‘Extract Data’ button. The plugin reads the file and counts your posts and pages.
Step 3 shows how many items it found. The ‘Advanced Options’ panel lets you keep the original Blogger author for each post, and it has an experimental option to convert the old Blogger HTML into WordPress blocks.
We recommend leaving that option unchecked for your first run, because you can always convert posts to blocks later in the editor.
Leave the batch size on ‘Recommended’ and click the ‘Start’ button.
The plugin imports your posts and pages, downloads every image hosted on Google’s servers into your media library, and rewrites the image links inside your posts to the new copies.
It also records the old Blogger address of each post, which we use for the redirects in Step 5.
A progress log shows each item as it comes over, and you will see a ‘Congratulations!’ message when it finishes.
You can now check your content under Posts » All Posts and Pages » All Pages. Blogger labels become WordPress categories, drafts stay drafts, and the first image in each post becomes its featured image.
Step 4: Setting Up Permalinks
Now that your posts are in WordPress, let’s talk about their web addresses. Permalinks is the WordPress term for the URL structure of your posts and pages.
Blogger post URLs look like this: https://yourblog.blogspot.com/2026/08/post-title.html.
The BtW Importer plugin saved the old address of every post and page in a redirect map. Whenever a request for an old address reaches your WordPress site, the plugin sends it to the matching new post.
So keep WordPress’s default setting. Go to Settings » Permalinks and check that you have the ‘Post name’ option selected.
This setting gives you clean, SEO-friendly URLs like yourblog.com/post-title/.
You can see the full list of old and new addresses under BtW Importer » Redirect Log. Every Blogger post and page should have a row here.
To test it, open one of the old addresses on your new domain, such as yourblog.com/2026/08/post-title.html. WordPress should send you straight to the new post.
In our test, the old post and page URLs all returned a 301 redirect to the right place.
This map only works for users that arrive at your WordPress domain. However, since your users and Google don’t know that you have moved, they will continue seeing your old Blogger blog until you finish Step 5.
Step 5: Set Up Redirects From Blogger to WordPress
Now that WordPress knows where every old address should go, it is time for the most important step of the whole migration, which is redirecting users and search engines like Google to your new WordPress site.
A redirect sends anyone who opens one of your old Blogger URLs to the same post on WordPress automatically.
It also sends a 301 status code, which is the code for a permanent redirect. This tells Google that the page has moved for good, so your rankings pass to the new address instead of starting from zero.
⚠️ If your Blogger blog has its own custom domain instead of blogspot.com, you may need to point your domain nameservers to your hosting provider. For instructions, please follow our tutorial on how to switch custom domain blogger blog to WordPress.
Blogger does not let you set up server redirects, so here is the workaround.
First, we add a small code snippet to your WordPress site. It receives the visitors that Blogger sends over, looks up the old address, and forwards them to the right post in WordPress.
Then, add a code snippet to your Blogger theme to send every visitor and search engine from your blogspot.com address to that snippet.
1. Add the Redirect Snippet to WordPress
We recommend adding the snippet with the free WPCode plugin, which is the safest way to add custom code to WordPress. For more details, see our guide on how to copy and paste code snippets in WordPress.
After installing WPCode, go to Code Snippets » + Add Snippet. Hover over ‘Add Your Custom Code (New Snippet)’ and click ‘Use snippet’.
Choose ‘PHP Snippet’ as the code type, give your snippet a name, and paste the following code:
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'wpb_blogger_b2w_redirect', 1 );
function wpb_blogger_b2w_redirect() {
if ( empty( $_GET['b2w'] ) ) {
return;
}
$old_path = wp_parse_url( esc_url_raw( wp_unslash( $_GET['b2w'] ) ), PHP_URL_PATH );
$target = home_url( '/' );
if ( $old_path ) {
$matches = get_posts( array(
'post_type' => array( 'post', 'page' ),
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => 1,
'ignore_sticky_posts' => true,
'meta_key' => '_old_permalink',
'meta_value' => $old_path,
) );
if ( $matches ) {
$target = get_permalink( $matches[0] );
}
}
wp_safe_redirect( $target, 301 );
exit;
}
This code reads the old Blogger address that your Blogger theme will pass along, looks up the matching post or page that BtW Importer saved, and sends the visitor there with a 301 redirect. If nothing matches, it sends them to your homepage instead of a 404 error.
Below the code box, set the Insertion method to ‘Auto Insert’ and the Location to ‘Frontend Only’. Then switch the toggle at the top to Active and click the ‘Save Snippet’ button.
2. Replace Your Blogger Theme With the Redirect Code
Next, log in to your Blogger dashboard and go to the Theme page. Click the down arrow next to the ‘Customize’ button, and then select ‘Edit HTML’.
Blogger will now display the HTML code of your theme.
Before you delete anything, copy ALL of the existing Blogger theme HTML and save it to a text file on your computer as a backup.
Once you have backed up the original theme code, delete everything in the editor and paste the following code. Replace https://example.com with your new WordPress site’s address in all four places:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html b:version='2' class='v2' expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
<head>
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<link expr:href='"https://example.com/?b2w=" + data:blog.url' rel='canonical'/>
<meta expr:content='"0;url=https://example.com/?b2w=" + data:blog.url' http-equiv='refresh'/>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
window.location.replace('https://example.com/?b2w=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location.href));
//]]>
</script>
<b:skin><![CDATA[
body { font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; padding: 40px; }
]]></b:skin>
</head>
<body>
<b:section class='main' id='main' showaddelement='no'>
<b:widget id='Blog1' locked='true' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog' version='2'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<p>This blog has moved. <a expr:href='"https://example.com/?b2w=" + data:blog.url'>Click here if you are not redirected.</a></p>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
</b:section>
</body>
</html>
This theme code does three things. It tells search engines that each old page has a new canonical address, uses a meta refresh tag to send them to that page, and redirects human visitors with a small script.
All three point at the WordPress snippet from the previous step, which then forwards to the exact post.
Don’t forget to click the ‘Save’ button to store your changes.
Older Blogger themes also serve a separate mobile version of your blog, and that version ignores the code you just pasted.
To turn it off, click the same down arrow next to the ‘Customize’ button and select ‘Mobile settings’.
In the popup, choose the ‘Desktop’ option and click ‘Save’. If you don’t see ‘Mobile settings’, your theme is already responsive, and you can skip this.
Now test it. Open one of your old Blogger post URLs in a private browser window, and within a second you should land on the same post on your WordPress site.
3. Redirect Blogger’s ?m=1 Mobile URLs
When someone opens your Blogger blog on a phone, Blogger adds ?m=1 to the end of the address, and Google often indexes these mobile addresses alongside the normal ones.
In our tests, that small addition caused a real problem. WordPress uses m as its own parameter for date archives, so a request for yourblog.com/?m=1 or yourblog.com/post-title/?m=1 returns a 404 error page.
The fix is a second WPCode snippet that sends every ?m=1 and ?m=0 request to the clean URL with a 301 redirect. Create another PHP snippet in WPCode, just like you did above, and paste this code:
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'wpb_redirect_blogger_mobile_urls' );
function wpb_redirect_blogger_mobile_urls() {
if ( ! isset( $_GET['m'] ) || ! in_array( $_GET['m'], array( '0', '1' ), true ) ) {
return;
}
wp_safe_redirect( remove_query_arg( 'm' ), 301 );
exit;
}
Scroll down a little and set the Location to ‘Frontend Only’, switch the snippet to Active, and click ‘Save Snippet’.
In our test, opening the homepage and a post URL with ?m=1 at the end both sent us straight to the clean URL.
Step 6: Moving Other Content From Blogger to WordPress
With your content moved and the redirects in place, it is time to check the pieces that need a manual touch. Below are five things to look at, and how to handle each one.
1. Pages
BtW Importer moves your Blogger pages, like About and Contact, into Pages » All Pages, and it redirects their old /p/ addresses too. Open each one to check the formatting, and add them to your WordPress theme’s navigation menus.
You might also want to check out our list of important pages every WordPress blog should have, so you don’t miss anything Blogger never had.
2. Widgets
Like Blogger, many WordPress themes use widgets to add content to your blog’s sidebar. To add them, visit the Appearance » Editor page for block themes and Appearance » Widgets page for classic themes.
For detailed instructions, see our guide on how to add and use widgets in WordPress.
If you are looking for a widget that WordPress does not have by default, then you likely need a plugin. WordPress has over 72,000 free plugins, so see our beginner’s guide on how to choose the right WordPress plugin.
3. RSS Feeds
People who follow your blog through RSS feeds will still be able to find your blog. However, they will not get any new content until you point the old feed to the new one.
To fix this, go to the Settings page in your Blogger dashboard. Scroll down to the ‘Site feed’ section and click ‘Post feed redirect URL’.
This will bring up a popup where you need to add the RSS feed URL of your WordPress website. Your WordPress feed URL will look like this:
http://example.com/feed
Don’t forget to replace example.com with your own domain name.
Click the ‘Save’ button to add the URL and save your settings.
4. Images
BtW Importer already downloaded the images that Google hosted for you into your media library and updated your posts to use them. Open Media » Library to see them.
If the plugin missed a few images, or you had images hosted elsewhere, our guide on how to import external images in WordPress shows a plugin that finds and downloads them.
The Google Takeout archive from Step 2 is your safety net. Its Albums folder contains a copy of every image you ever uploaded to Blogger, in original quality.
Step 7: Verify Your Migration in Google Search Console
Now that your content is in place, it is time to let Google know about the change. This step helps Google find your new site faster and protects your search rankings.
Here’s what you need to do:
- Add your new WordPress site to Google Search Console. If you haven’t already, follow our guide on how to add your WordPress site to Google Search Console.
- Submit your new XML sitemap. Submit your sitemap URL in Google Search Console so Google can discover all your new URLs. For step-by-step instructions, see our guide on how to create a sitemap in WordPress.
- Monitor your 404 errors. Over the next few weeks, keep an eye on the Pages report in Google Search Console to catch any 404 errors. If you spot broken URLs, set up additional redirects for them. You can do that with the free 404 to 301 redirect manager plugin.
- Install Google Analytics. To track your traffic with Google Analytics after the migration and make sure everything is working, we recommend installing MonsterInsights. For more information, see our guide on how to install Google Analytics in WordPress.
Step 8. Things to Do After Migrating From Blogger to WordPress
Your blog is now on WordPress, and your redirects protect your rankings. Three tasks are worth doing in your first week.
- Pick a fast theme. Your Blogger design does not transfer, so choose a lightweight theme that loads quickly on phones. Our list of the best free WordPress blog themes is a good place to start.
- Install the essential plugins. An SEO plugin, a contact form, and a backup plugin cover most blogs. See our list of must-have WordPress plugins.
- Set up backups. On Blogger, Google looks after your content. On WordPress, you are in charge, so pick one of the best WordPress backup plugins and schedule automatic backups.
Frequently Asked Questions About Switching From Blogger to WordPress
Is anyone still using Blogger?
Yes. Blogger is still online, and Google has not announced any plans to close it.
However, it only gets a few new features these days, and Google has now folded even its backup tool into Google Takeout.
Most bloggers who want to grow their blog move to WordPress because it’s easy to customize the appearance and extend its features.
What happens to my old Blogger blog after migration?
Your old Blogger blog will still exist after the migration. In fact, you need to keep it active, because the redirect code in your Blogger theme is what sends visitors to your new WordPress site.
Don’t delete your Blogger blog, as that would remove the redirects and cost you traffic.
We hope this article helped you switch from Blogger to WordPress without affecting your Google search rankings. You may also want to see our guide to which WordPress plan you should use or the most common WordPress myths debunked.
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Mike Oplinger
Ok I’m on step #3 and I’m to the part where I select WPbeginner on my blogger page but I don’t have anywhere to select this, all I have is an option to select the order the page shows up in which is currently 0.
Shell
I had the same issue. The problem was I had put my wpb-blogger.php file into the /public_html/wp-content/themes/ folder instead of in the folder of the specific theme I was currently using. Perhaps the tutorial could state this a little more clearly?
Rebecca
Thank you for this! That was exactly what I was stuck on as well and that worked beautifully!!!
Karen
THANK YOU! I was having the same problem and your suggestion fixed it!
Lori Ketcherside
THANK YOU!!!
mansoor1223
Hi, I just did the same as what is written here, but when i searched google for a post and clicked that Link i am seeing a 404 Not Found Page
Ronamae
How to solve this?
Oops! That page can’t be found.
It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try one of the links below or a search?
Alonso Valdés Morales
I was reading other blogs about this topic, and I got a question. Do I need a custom domain on Blogger.com to make this migration?
Thanks!
WPBeginner Staff
Seems like WordPress is unable to connect with your blogger account. Please check your blogger username and password and try again.
dani
Assalam-u-Alaikum brother Syed Balkhi
When I install blogger importer in wp and then I click Tools>import so I face this error.
Please tell me what happened and how to solve it.
Jazak-Allah and Thanks.
WPBeginner Staff
You can re-run the importer again. It is smart enough not to import posts previously imported successfully.
Awais
I completed all the steps as written. No problem. The one issue I have is that if anyone goes to click on a link from facebook or twitter to read that specific blog article, it takes them to the main WordPress blog page not to that individual blog. Then, they would have to actually search for it by name on the right column. How can this be fixed please? I’ve spent nearly a day trying to figure this out. Thanks.
Shane Carmody
Cheers for this. Almost everything worked great and I didn’t have to do Step 5 as the Blogger importer did it for me. The only gripe I have is that the Blogger importer stalled at the end and it didn’t finish off. Aside from that, redirection works like a charm.
Thanks for the great tutorial.
Melissa
I had to run the importer multiple times, so don’t lose heart!
mariya
i don’t understand I am stuck at the step where i change my blogger template to classic and go into the edit html…i cannot find http://www.example.com in my web address…what am I doing wrong ?? please help ! note i don’t have my own domain name its like
” xyz.blogspot.com”
please help !
jnader
I completed all the steps as written. No problem. The one issue I have is that if anyone goes to click on a link from facebook or twitter to read that specific blog article, it takes them to the main WordPress blog page not to that individual blog. Then, they would have to actually search for it by name on the right column. How can this be fixed please? I’ve spent nearly a day trying to figure this out. Thanks.
Sarah
I have completed the transfer and it all seems great except when I google specific posts it directs me to my new wordpress but the link leads you to one of my wordpress pages, not the individual post. Did I miss a step?
Dok Simon
Am quite confused here .. I have my own paid domain already , how do I export without loosing anything ??
srividhya
This is really helpful. But I am not able to find the permalinks under settings in WP. Where should I change my permalinks?
Thanks
Tiffany Burton
Thank you for a wonderful tutorial. After reading many of the comments and double checking things I still have a question. The redirect links on my blogger site are working great. All my posts have a link now that takes them to my new wordpress site. The problem is when I get there instead of taking me to the matching post my wordpress site says:
“Well this is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it? It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching, or one of the links below, can help.”
Everything imported correctly and the posts are there. What part did I do wrong? I have the blogger page made and uploaded my php file via filezilla without a problem. I even found a plugin to let me exclude pages from my sites navigation bar. This is my first time ever typing code of any kind could that be the problem? I am just wondering what I need to do from here.
Wilson Pina
Another HQ post! Of course, we couldn’t expect Anything else from the good folks @ WP Beginner ))))
Balaji
cleared all my doubts
thanks
Mark
Great article – thanks. Just one issue I’m having is that I have to use custom permalinks in WordPress so they don’t match from blogger:
WP: [domain]/%year%/%postname%/
Blogger: [domain]/%year%/%month%/%postname%.html
Any idea where/how I can change this?
WPBeginner Staff
Please make sure that you have modified the blogger template correctly and that it is redirecting users to the blogger page on your WordPress site.
Also make sure that the blogger page is using the wpb-blogger.php file as its template.
If all of this seems right, then check the URL you are directed to and compare it with the post’s URL on your WordPress site. Report back with more information and we will try to figure this out.
Kristiyan Bogdanov
Ooops. I forgot to make the page. Now its all fine. Works perfectly! Is it safe to hide or delete the page now?
Diana
Thanks for these instructions, I have to admit i have four this a HUGE learning curve. Ive followed all of your steps to the letter, but now am at the end of Step 3. I have created a new page, but don’t get the WP Beginner Blogger option on drop down. Did I miss a step somewhere. any help would be much appreciated.
Aljaž Ribnikar
Thanks for this tutorial. I did all steps above but there is something wrong with redirection. My new wordpress blog is on sub directory of my online shop (shopurl/blog) but if I visit old post on blogger it will redirect me to my root domain (online shop) and not to my wordpress blog post. My old blogger was on sub domain of this same online shop (blog.shopurl).
Guest123
Hi, I had recently started on blogger and now trying to make the switch to wordpress. I am trying to import blogger content to wordpress but having issues. When I am on blogger>setting>blog tools and I click on export blog, and click on the option to “download blog” an error comes up saying “safari could not update this feed because the source file is no longer available”. How do I fix this so that the contents I have on blogger is moved to wordpress? thank you!
Aljaž Ribnikar
Hi! Thanks for your tutorial! Everything worked great, except redirects from blogger post to wordpress post. I have online store on some other platform and separate installation for wordpress blog on subdir of my online store. My blogger blog is on http://www.blog.mywebstoreurl.com. Now I am moving from custom blogger domain to wordpress subdir on my website: http://www.mywebstoreurl.com/blog/. I did all steps above but when I open old blogger post it will redirect me to my website root (www.mywebstoreurl.com) not even to blog (www.mywebstoreurl.com/blog/). If I open old blogger root page it will redirect me OK to http://www.mywebstoreurl.com/blog/. I hope I didn’t complicate it too much:) Any idea?
eL-hAkeeM
I’ve followed your instructions but still can’t get my embed videos back,,
can you tell me how to fix it??
WPBeginner Staff
We will look into it and update the article.
Jason Knoell
Is there any update on this? I realize you’re not my personal support line
but I do need to find a fix for this ASAP… 
Angelo
Jason, did you find any solution?
Angelo
I have the same problem. Mobile version is still showing. Also when using an old article link it reffers only to the home page of the new wordpress site. Hoping for help.
Jason Knoell
This is fantastic and works like a charm without loading in more plugins. Thank you! However…. When I visit the site on my iphone, it doesn’t redirect me. Is this because it’s a mobile verion of the blogger site? Is there a way to catch that too?
WPBeginner Staff
Adrain you should remove it from your site’s navigation menus or sidebars. The purpose of this page is to redirect users coming from blogger to correct posts in WordPress.
Making a page private will make it inaccessible. This means users coming from blogger will not be redirected.
Adriane
After creating the page labeled “Blogger” and using the WP Beginner theme, what is the purpose of the page and should it be displaying anything? When I click on it I just see a white screen.
WPBeginner Staff
The purpose of this template is to redirect users coming from blogger to correct posts on your WordPress site.
Adriane
Is there something wrong if it leads me to a blank white screen when I click on the blogger tab? Can I make it private or should it remain visible? Thanks!
Lauren
So happy I found this post. I think it’s time to make the switch.
Amber K. Sanders
This article was helpful, but I do have an issue. I want to add a “blog” menu tab that will then allow clients to be on my site and read additional posts. How can I get my posts to show up when I add a new page?
WPBeginner Staff
Seems like redirection is not working, please make sure that you haven’t missed anything.
Cathy
I’m having the same issue, although I’m getting a 403 error. When I test a link from the old blogger site, the address in the bar changes to something like http://www.newblog.com/blogger/?q=http://www.oldblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/old-blog-post-title.html which results in the 403. I’m pretty sure I’ve followed all the steps noted, can you advise? Thanks!
Cathy
I wanted to reply to my earlier post, because I found out what the issue was. The new Wordpress blog is hosted on Hostgator, and that particular host has some changes that need to be made in order for this Blogger–>Wordpress technique to function correctly. If you contact tech support there, they can assist with it.
John Potenza
Can you tell me what exactly they did, or do you have no idea? I also have hostgator, would love to know.
Andrea @ Why Roam?
Hi, thank you for this post! The instructions were very easy to follow. Everything has worked perfectly for me. However, once I tested a link from my old blogger site, I received a 404 not found error. I’ve tried several posts and receive the same error. If I do a site search, the old post comes right up. Any advice?
Kristiyan Bogdanov
Same problem here! @wordpressbeginner:disqus, Please help!
Satya
I have a blogger blog having custom domain name. I followed all the steps above..but the issue is still my blogger post redirected to home page(wordpress blog) only..Plz help..
Helen
Sorry – I’ve fixed it. The main issue for other users is finding the right folder to put the php folder in. Not easy and you may have to contact your host support as I did.
anu
I do have another question as well…do you know how I can move my blog followers to wordpress site? is there a plugin?
anu
This is a very helpful post…thank much for sharing…I have a question here,….this will move only the post, comments and the media right? but it does not do anything to move the blog pages to the wordpress….is there a way to move the pages and it’s contents as well?
I still didn’t do the redirection …as I was not sure if I need to do more changes with respect to the pages in wordpress.
Please help.
Mahesh Waghmare
Nice article, Thanks.
Sharron Goodyear
I have followed your instructions up to the point before saving the php file. I went into Edit HTML and deleted the code that was there and replaced it with what you have listed above. I then saved the template.
However now when I try and access the ‘Edit HTML’ I get the following error message:
We’re sorry, but we were unable to complete your request.
When reporting this error to Blogger Support or on the Blogger Help Group, please:
Describe what you were doing when you got this error.
Provide the following error code.
bX-4b250i
This information will help us to track down your specific problem and fix it! We apologise for the inconvenience.
Close
Please could you tell me why this might be as this is causing a major issue for me!!
Many thanks
Sharron
WPBeginner Support
Wait for a while and then try again. Remember that your posts on your blogger site are perfectly safe and you can always go back to Templates and restore your blogger blog.
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marielle altenor
I’m in the process of moving my blogger site to wordpress.org. My question has to do with Google Analytic. Do you have a post that talks about how to go about it? Would I be using the same profile for my new wordpress.org blog or create a new one and start the page view and such from the start?
WPBeginner Support
Marielle, yes we do have a Google Analytics setup guide. You can use the same Google account. However, since this will be a different domain name, you will have to create a new site profile for it.
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Avadhesh
What if i also want to move the domain too.
Tanja Jensen
Hi there!
The quality is not good…. But all the images did import into my media library.
After I imported my blog, all my images are looking bad
Can I do something that will update all the images in my posts or do I really have to go through every single post manually?
– Tanja
WPBeginner Support
Tanja if you have successfully imported images to your media library, then you probably need to regenerate images.
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Tanja Jensen
Hello again! Well, it did help me with my thumbnails, but my pictures in my posts still look grumsy. I have tried to upload the same picture again directly from the media library, but I really do not want to go through all my 300 posts if I can help it! See example here: Can you see my problem?
Tanja Jensen
Oh…. I can see that the URL of the image is the old IP address from WordPress – I guess it should be custom domain? Can I change that in a quick way?
WPBeginner Support
You can try importing the external images. After that you need to run the regenerate thumbnails script once again.
Tanja Jensen
Hi there
I have a problem with Step 3. I cannot see my .php file unde ‘Template’ when creating the new page titled ‘blogger’. What may I have done wrong?
– Tanja
Tanja Jensen
Uh, I think I fixed it. Just had the place the file in some sub directories = the right place
Although a bit hard to figure out since there are many main and sub folders in my FTP client! Hard for a beginner to figure out… – Tanja
Adriane
I’m having the same problem. Where do you end up needing to put it?
TIffany Ima
This is a great tutorial, except it doesn’t explain how to add the file to the theme directory, and I am completely lost. I cannot get my post to redirect appropriately.
WPBeginner Support
Tiffany, you need to use an FTP client to upload the file to your theme directory.
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Tanja Jensen
HI there! I am about to move my blogspot blog to WordPress – YAY! But before I do that, I want to make sure about one thing: when I import my blog from blogspot to WordPress, will I then delete it on blogspot or just copy it? I mean, if something goes wrong, I want to be able to go back to my blogspot to continue making posts until I get the WordPress to work.
I haven’t seen the ‘inside’ of the WordPress admin panels, so I don’t know how it all looks. I mean, do I have a special section called ‘posts’, where I write post, edit my old ones etc?
Another question – when I import my blog, where will WordPress import my blog posts – to a particular page or to specific WordPress posts? And what about my tags/labels or what you call it here… I depend a lot on my division on tags
Thanks for the help! – Tanja
WPBeginner Support
Tanja, this guide does not ask you to delete any posts from your Blogspot site. This method only redirects users coming to your blogger site to your WordPress site. Your blogger posts should remain as they are and if you wish you can always switch back your blogspot template and your blogger site will be live and accessible again.
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Tanja Jensen
Good to know, I was just worried about what was meant by the word ‘import’ – delete or copy
I am a beginner (as most others looking at this site), so I just wanted to make sure – that I could still run my blog while I was setting up the WordPress version of it. Thanks for the help! 
Bob Jones
I have the same problem that Rachelle, above, has. When I then go to create a page in WordPress, WPBeginner Blogger does not come up as an option in the templates. My only options are “Default Template,” “Contributor Page,” and “Full Width Page.”
Any post I view on Blogger now shows the text of this page, concatenated in a continuous line of text.
Help!
Bob Jones
Salem, Oregon
WPBeginner Support
Bob, it seems like the template file is missing theme, which is causing WordPress not to recognize the template file. Please copy pase the code again.
Admin
Bob Jones
Thank you for your reply to my question. I copied the code in the first block under step 3 into my blogger template. I then copied the code in the second block of step 3 into a wpb-blogger.php file and uploaded that file to the server directory containing the WordPress files. I see that WPBeginner Blogger is the name of that template.
What happens now when I click on a post in a Google search results page listing is that I get sent to the blogger page I created in step 3. I do not get sent to the post that was shown on the results page.
Also, I still do not have WPBeginner Blogger as a choice in the Page Attributes / Template drop-down box.
Getting closer, but still not there.
Bob Jones
Salem, Oregon
David Reber
Did something change in the newer versions of Wordpress. I needed to add the Page Theme plugin to allow for a different theme to be used on different pages.
Farhan
Thanks for the great article, I want to move my blogger site to wordpress but want a new perma link structure.
So instead of a date based system i.e. year/month/blog title like 2014/03/tutorialA.html I want to change it to /tutorials/3Dsoftware1/tutorial1.html
Is there a code solution that I can implement in the head of the blogger file or in each post’s html version to target my old blogger posts to my new wp site? Each post will now be listed by its categoryName/post_title.
Perhaps I should create two posts i.e. do the straight forward conversion then apply category based URI with a 301 redirect? I imagine not as there will be an extra duplicate post.
Thanks so much
Asdrubal Romero
I have done all up to the point of setting redirection at wordpress. You say that i have to upload a file but i do not even know how i do that. What is the ftp direction of wordpress and do they have a reserved space for each user?
WPBeginner Support
First make sure that you are on a self hosted WordPress.org site and not WordPress.com blog (see the difference). After that you need to contact your web host to find out your FTP account user name and password. In case you don’t want to use FTP, some web hosts also offer a file manager available on your cPanel dashboard.
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nil
Hey,
I would only like to change the rel=canonical URL from my old blogger blog to my new blog, not redirect everything. Do you know how? That would be great!
Just tried few manuals from the net, nothing works anymore.
Thanks
nil
Rachelle
Hello,
I’ve been able to import my blogger posts (except the very first post, which I still cannot figure out why it didn’t import) to my hosted Wordpress account. I was able to get everything to work–including the Blogger redirect–until I reached the step where you have to setup the redirect for Wordpress itself so that each individual post on Blogger is redirected to the new location on Wordpress. I created the PHP file and pasted in the code exactly as was posted above. I then uploaded the file to the theme folder where the Wordpress files are on my account. However, when I then go to create a page in Wordpress, WPBeginner Blogger does not come up as an option in the templates. My only options are “Default Template,” “Contributor Page,” and “Full Width Page.”
I’m at a total loss as to where I went wrong. Any ideas on how to correct this issue? I don’t want people clicking on a direct link to one of my Blogger articles to see a “Page Not Found” error.
Thanks!
Glenn
I have the same problem: I uploaded the file and the WP Beginner template does not show as an option. Can someone share a solution?
WPBeginner Support
Please make sure that you have created the template file in /wp-content/themes/your-theme-directory/
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Glenn
I *think* we’re getting close, but it’s still not working. Hmm, do I need to do anything differently if my wp blog has a different title than my blogger blog:
blogger name: autismplusmath.blogspot.com
wp name: autismpluslande.com
THANK YOU for your continued help with this: appreciate the quick reply to my last query!
Emma
I have tried everything on redirect from blogger and I get this error:
Error parsing XML, line 2, column 73: The value of attribute “dir” associated with an element type “html” must not contain the ‘<' character.
can you help please?
WPBeginner Support
Emma, it seems like you are pasting the blogger template code in the wrong location.
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Dino
Hi,
I have a self hosted blog Wordpress on Bluehost and I’m trying to migrate contents from my old Blogger blog.
I did the export step from Blogger, but when I’m on my wordpress dashboard, I do tools>import, then a completely white page appears.
What can I do?
Thanks.