Google Blogger and Wordpress provides best way to host a blog or website of our own. There are lot of advantages and disadvantages in both but this article doesn't tell you anything about those. This article helps you to move your blog/website from Wordpress to Blogger. Without stretching this matter for a long and make you tiresome with unwanted things, will strike with the steps to move from Wordpress to Blogger.
- First login to your Wordpress dashboard.
- Go to Tools->Export->All->Download/Export.
- The file which you downloaded in step 2 will be in WXR file format. Blogger takes perfect XML file format. So we have to convert the WXR file to XML file. We have nice converter over net to help us with this task.
- Go to http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/ and input the downloaded WXR file as input. (Note, the WXR file should not exceed 1MB. If it exceeds, then export several WXR files by selecting the start date and end date before exporting.) Now press Convert button and wait for 10-30 seconds to process the input file and download the converted file.
- Now login to your blogger account and go to Settings->Other->Import Blog and provide the converted file as input.
That's it. You are done with moving your posts, comments, authors and time stamps from Wordpress to Blogger but the problem here is that the imported posts will contain the images/pictures URL of the old Wordpress. So we have to host all the images to different location and change the image source URL. Techspace provides you with a unique solution to import images to your posts and the steps go as given below.
- Create an account in Dropbox.
- Now login to Dropbox account and download the installation package and install in your system.
- Now login to your Wordpress hosted site like GoDaddy, Hostgator, Dreamhost etc... and download the contents of wp-content/uploads.
- Copy the contents of downloaded file to dropbox's Public folder and wait for the contents to sync to the dropbox account/cloud.
- Now open dropbox account from web browser and open Public folder and click on any of the file and click on Copy Public Link and copy file URL which is something like this http://dl.dropbox.com/u/66540040/ (Copy only till /u/66540040 sort. Here 66540040 is your_account_number).
- Now open the converted file from step 4 of first tutorial(above) using notepad or word-pad or any other file editing software and now Find and Replace http://www.your-blogname.com/wp-content/uploads/ with http://dl.dropbox.com/u/your_account_number/ and then upload the edited XML file to Blogger as input.
