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How to Switch From Blogger to WordPress Without Losing Google Rankings

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“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.

Switching from Blogger to WordPress, step by step guide

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

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’.

Export your Blogger content as backup

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.

Google Takeout with Blogger 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.

Use default settings in Google takeout options

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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Agree with the plugin notice

In Step 1, click the ‘Choose your Blogger export file’ button and select the feed.atom file. Then click the ‘Upload File’ button.

Upload your feed.atom file

In Step 2, click the ‘Extract Data’ button. The plugin reads the file and counts your posts and pages.

Extract data from the feed file

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.

Start importing content into WordPress

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.

Importer successfully completed

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.

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/.

WordPress permalinks settings with Post name option selected

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.

Blogger to WordPress redirect log

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;
}
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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.

WPCode blogger to WordPress redirect snippet

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’.

Edit Blogger theme in HTML mode

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='&quot;https://example.com/?b2w=&quot; + data:blog.url' rel='canonical'/>
<meta expr:content='&quot;0;url=https://example.com/?b2w=&quot; + 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='&quot;https://example.com/?b2w=&quot; + data:blog.url'>Click here if you are not redirected.</a></p>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
</b:section>
</body>
</html>
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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.

Adding redirect code to your Blogger blog&apos;s theme in HTML mode

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’.

Blogger theme 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;
}
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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’.

Redirect blogger feed 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.

Enter new site feed URL

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:

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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  1. Hi, I could successfully migrate from blogger to wordpress. But there seems to be a problem with RSS feed. The subscription mail of the new posts are not coming. How can I solve this problem. Pls help!

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  3. Thank you for these instrucionts-I have finished with step 4-the first step. I added your code and the visitors are redirected to my new website. But it takes a while until the page is loading and there are displayed some numbers. 01 02 03 04 05 on the screen. It looks not so nice—could it be replaced-or how to make it faster?

    I also dont know how to do the last step with the php-code. My enfold theme has a functions-php and a functions-enfold.php. I already tried the code at the end of the functions.php-with no effect. I deleted it again.

    Could you give me a hint what to search for or to test?

    Thank you in advance
    Nicole

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  4. Thank you so much! migration is successful .

    now please tell me what to do with sitemap of old blogger as well as wordpress?

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  5. Hi, I have done the process of Blogger to WP migration step by step and I did get migration successfully. But the problem is I have done all the plugins and theme customization and while doing configuration of Yoast SEO Plugin and exactly when I was adding the google webmaster tools verification and when pressed the save button it said “can’t verify site” and the site is down. now when I am entering the URL from the blog spot or direct url..it is asking for install WordPress thing …how to solve this? please help it out

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  6. I have migrated from blogger to wordpress, i was having custom domain, but after migration my older links with custom domain are not redirecting to the newer link generated in wordpress. I have changed the permalink as per your article. Please help me.

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  8. I’d followed the guide duly but the import blogger plugin gives me an error note of some lines are missing.

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  9. I have tried EVERYTHING I can to try to redirect my blogger to wordpress site. I have input the code you have on here multiple MULTIPLE times, and I can’t for the life of me get it to work. The worst part is, now my old blogger blog is GONE and now my readers aren’t going to know what is going on. If you could please email me I would really appreciate it.

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    • Hi Abigail,

      If you followed the instructions, then your old Blogger blog isn’t gone. It is still there and you can switch back to it. Simply login to your blogger dashboard, go to Templates. Click on the Upgrade Template button and then select a new template for your blogger blog. Your Blogger blog will now become visible again.

      However, we believe that you probably still want to move to WordPress. We will advice you not to give up, there is probably some tiny thing that you are missing. Follow the steps carefully again, and you will be able to properly redirect your readers to your new WordPress site.

      Good luck

      Reply

      Admin

  10. My website is not opening after i updated it. Hello please i need help on this; i login to my wp-admin dashboard and see a notification message from wordpress that i’m using an whole version of wordpress that i should upgrade to the latest version. I follow the instruction to updates my wordpress sites but after a successful update my webpages are not opening again. It will just be loading and reloading without anything displaying. And why it is loading it will be displaying a blink of blogger icon.

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    • Hello, Satish Kindly contact your web hoster. Even I used to get this error and bluhost resolved it.

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  13. Howdy.

    First thanks for this tutorial, Im done migrating my site from blogger to wordpress. The problem is when I search my posts on google and click a link from blogger, it will redirect me to wordpress with .html on the link so it gibes error 404. I hope you can help me.

    Thank you.

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  14. I have imported all the blogspot content to wp ….. Now should i delete the blogger blog??

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  15. Hey, I got everything over and redirected just fine. Thanks for the great videos!
    But, I realize I need to get more info off the blogspot site. I am being redirected even from withing the blogger console. How do I access my blogger site now that the redirects are up?

    Thanks!

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  16. after transfer my blogger blog to wordpress in the google search when i click on post a 404 page not found show how can I fix them?

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  17. I have a custom domain name setup on my blogger blog. Do I have to first remove it from my blog to follow the above steps? Please help.

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  18. I had successfully imported my blogger.com blog into my wordpress website. it was very helpful thanks for this wonderful help. Now if i post a new blog at blogger .com then will it automatically feed into website. or should i posts on my website only. i posted a new post on blogger.com but that post didn’t feed in website. please guide me. thank you.

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  19. Thank, you. I’m going to try…a bit scared! This won’t be considered duplicate content, will it? It will disappear from blogger and move to wordpress?

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  20. Hi,

    Thanks for your wonderful tutorial.

    I have migrated my blogger blog to WordPress. But I have 2 specific problem. Can you please help?

    1) If I search my blog from a mobile device, and click the link, redirect doesn’t happen.
    2) I have 2 pages on my blogger blog. Say About and Contact, but the redirection doesn’t happen for them.

    Your help will be highly appreciated.

    With thanks,
    Nixy

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    • If the mobile redirect does not work, try to disable the mobile template first (before reverting to the classic template in step 4). This should prevent blogger from adding “?m=1” to the URL, which is why the redirect from mobile doesn’t happen. Hope that helps!

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  21. Hello! Thanks for the post, very helpful.

    One thing though. On Redirect Checker it says that my redirect is a 303 one

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  24. When editing your functions.php file – will those edits hold when you update your theme or when you do WordPress updates, or do you have to do this each time you update? Or do I need to be working with a child theme?

    Also – If I plan to change themes, should I do that before I make the change to the functions.php – thus only doing it once?

    Great tutorial – thanks

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    • Your theme’s functions.php file will get overwritten when you update the theme. To deal with this you can create a child theme and add custom code to child theme’s functions.php file. However, if you switch themes then you will have to copy paste the code.

      Another approach is to use a site-specific plugin. It remains out of your theme and does not get’s in the way when you update any WordPress core, plugin, or theme files.

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    • I also don’t see an export button, only an Import button and a Back up Content button and was wondering if there is something I’m missing…?

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  26. Hey, currently my blog is and I want to shift it to
    1) Is it possible?
    2) Will the total views would show too or we would have to start from 0?
    Kindly please reply to my question :)
    Great post and great video! :)

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  27. I have a question. After blogger to wordpress migration and redirection, What to do with blogger posts? I can delete them?

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  28. I was thinking to hire some one to migrate my blog but now iam capable of migrating myself.

    I will also post my experience of migration process. Really helpful post.

    Thanks.

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  29. Thanks for this- I’ve taken all the steps but the redirect doesn’t seem to be working properly for me. It works on a desktop computer, but from mobile devices the link still take you to my old blog. Any ideas what has gone wrong?

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  32. Thanks for this article. I have successfully migrated my blogspot blog to wordpress. I just wanted to know that should I deactivate blogger importer plugin or not ? Thanks :)

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  34. Thank you a million times over! I really am new to all this, but your step by step tutorial on how to switch to WP worked for me the very first time! My redirects and everything (at least that I’ve checked so far) are working great! Thank you again, you made this so much easier than what I expected!

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  35. Thank you so much for the awesome tutorial! It was easy to follow. But I only have one problem. Some of my pictures didn’t transfer and I did Step 6. I think it may be because those pictures were from my Google Drive. Is there a way to transfer them or would I manually have to upload those images again? Thanks for your help.

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  36. Love this site so much! So question is when I copy and paste the lines get all jumbled when I try to paste it into my php thingy. I deleted it because I was scared I would blow something up on my site. Is there a way to make my paste look like what I copied?

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    • Take your mouse over to code snippet on our site and you will see a viewsource button at the top right corner of the snippet. Clicking on it will open the source code in new popup window. Copy that code and then paste it.

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  37. PLEASE HELP! I did everything your post and video says but for some reason when I click on an old link for a specific post, it redirects to the .com but to the homepage, not the actual post.
    How can I fix this?
    For example, which I click on this-

    it brings me to this-

    THANK YOU!!!

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    • make sure the destination of your wordpress post slug are the same with your old blogger post slug. for example if your blogpost url are example.blogspot.com/2016/05/your-post-slug.html then make sure your wordpress url are example.com/2016/05/your-post-slug/

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  38. window.location.href=”http://example.com/?blogger=”

    These lines of code are giving an error in blogger.

    Error parsing XML, line 3, column 11: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup.

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  39. I’m having issues on the 301 redirection. I’m Using News pro genesis child theme, should i paste the code in the function.php of the child theme or function.php of Genesis frame work?

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  40. Thanks so much have managed to migrate a blog of over 200 posts to a new one and not lost anything. Great stuff! Thanks.

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      • Yes, I uploaded another plug in that transfered the photos too. Unfortunately, now all posts are double, with the same publishing date. This means I get to go back and reminisce while I delete doubles! Still, I appreciate the tutorial, it really helps to have both the video and written instructions. Also, why do I have to go into the FTP for each template? You mentioned if I change templates, to do this again?

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  42. Hi there. I’m really frustrated. I posted a comment on Apr. 6 but haven’t heard back from anyone.

    I followed the instructions on how to switch from blogger to wordpress. And I made a site-specific plugin because I was nervous about messing with the functions.php code to put in that redirect code.

    Here’s the problem: with that site-specific plugin activated on my website (susansinthegarden.com), if I click on a link to a blog post that was on my old blogger site, it redirects to my new homepage… which is great, but my goal is to have a person go directly to the SAME post on my new website and not to my homepage.

    What am I doing wrong? I’m losing sleep over this so please help ASAP! (and if anyone else sees this and knows what’s wrong, please comment. I’d really appreciate it!) Thanks.

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      • Hi, Christopher. I’ve heard from anyone about this. Have no idea how to solve this problem as I’ve done everything to the letter. Very frustrating. I wish someone would help us out with this problem. Sooo, if anyone out there experienced this, would you please let us know how you solved it so folks are directed from an old Blogger post to the SAME post on Wordpress? Thank you.

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        • Hello, Susan. Hope you are good?

          I was able to redirect mine but I had to purchase Yoast SEO premium . Yoast did all the redirection for me.

    • I’m having the same problem Kadi is having – blogger doesn’t give me the “import/export” option, just “delete blog”. Would love to hear how to export from blogger to WP or it’ll be a lot of cut & pasting. :) Thanks!

      Reply

    • Above “Delete Blog” you should see ‘Import Content’ and “Backup content”. Just click on Backup content. Hope it works for you.

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  44. Hello! Editorial Staff.
    I have a problem.
    I recently migrated from blogger to wordpress as you said in this tutorial. And also done changes in blogger template and in feed redirection. But posts are not redirecting from search results and also in post internal links.
    What is the problem. I have also blogger custom domain. What to do?

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  45. I have a question re: setting up the permalinks. On blogger, this is the format of the links to my blog posts:

    domain/yyyy_mm_01_postname.html

    On Wordpress, this is the format of the links to my blog posts:

    domain/yyyy/mm/postname

    So the differences are the underscores on blogger, plus the day, plus the “.html” on the end.

    How would I resolve this? Do search engines automatically “translate” the underscores into slashes? And do they ignore the “.html”?

    If this is the case, perhaps I would need to make a custom permalink that is something like this:

    /%year%/%monthnum%/%daynum%/%postname%/

    Could this work? Thanks in advance for your help.

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  46. Thanks for the info– however, my blog is currently on blogger as its own domain name. How do I do the redirection if I’m going to switch the name over to wordpress as well?

    My blog is currently I use blogger, but want to switch to wordpress, but continue to use

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  47. Any of you experiencing 403 error after all of this. Contacted the domain hoster and said it probably the issue with the plugin that being used. Anyone else experienced that?

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  48. Thank you so much for this post, it is just what i was looking for. However, I am having an issue withe the 301 redirects. When a page is redirected, it is looking for domain.com/path/post-title.html whereas the permalinks in wordpress are domain.com/path/post-title/. That is, to be more succint, the URI ends with a ‘/’ instead of ‘.html’. Is there a way to remedy this.

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    • Hi, SMLOCKE. Did you get a response on this because I’m having the same problem with the lack of an .html causing a 404 not found error. Thanks.

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      • Can I say I love you to a stranger? Thank you so much! That custom link did the trick! I even called my hosting support and they couldn’t! You are awesome!!!!!!

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  49. Hi,

    I’ve done everything explained above but stuck in the wordpress 301 redirection process

    Error:
    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<' in /home/manage1991/public_html/wp-content/themes/aqueduct/functions.php on line 446

    /*————————————————————-
    Redirection Code for Posts
    —————————————–*/
    <?php ////Line 446

    function blogger_query_vars_filter( $vars ) {

    $vars[] = "blogger";

    return $vars;

    }
    .
    .
    .

    Reply

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