Hi guys, I'm Subhang from websitelearners.com
Today I'll be showing you how you can
move your Blogger site, to WordPress
If you have an existing blogger site and you want to
move to wordpress, this video is for you
So, why move to wordpress?
Even though, It takes lot more time to setup wordpress
You can do a lot more with it than blogger
For example, there is something called as plugins in wordpress
Which helps to you add new feature to your website
So, let's say you want to add a live chat to your
site, you can do it, just by installing a plugin in
wordpress
And finally, Wordpress also helps you to build your
own website,
just like this, by using drag & drop
So make sure you watch this video till the end to see
how you can do it
So, Now let's take a look at the blogger site
This is the blog which I've built on blogger
Now to move this site, to wordpress,
we're going to do 3 things
1st, We're going to 'save' the contents of this
blogger site, into a file
Then, in STEP 2
we're going to launch a New wordpress site
and then finally, we'll import the blogger content
into wordpress
Okay!
So let's get started!
The First Step
is to 'Save' our blog's content, into a file
So to save the blog's content,
let's go to our Blogger dashboard
Now make sure your blog is selected, here
And then go into 'Settings'
And go into 'Other'
Now click 'Backup content'
And 'save to your computer'
So now you can see that, we've downloaded our blog
content in this file
Next, let's go to step 2
Which is, to launch a new wordpress site
So to launch a new wordpress site,
Just click the link below this video,
And it'll take you to this page
So to launch a new wordpress site,
we're going to do 3 things
First, we're going to choose a Name for our website
So you can choose any name you want
I'm going to type my name here
So, I'm going to type totaltechi.com
& then click check availability
you can see that the name is available,
So, Once you get the name
We need to then buy that name & get our hosting account
So to get hosting & domain let's scroll down
and click get hosting
This will take you to Godaddy.com,
where we are going to buy the hosting
So let's click 'Get started'
Now enter the same name that you choose
and click 'Search'
Then click 'Select and Continue'
And now it will take you to this cart page
So you can see that we're getting our domain,
And our hosting
Both of these are going to be valid for 1 year
So to complete the purchase
Let's click 'register'
And I will quickly fill up these details
and click 'Create account'
Now click 'Add payment'
and choose your payment method
Enter the details
And click 'next'
Now click complete to make the payment
and it's done!
Okay!
So now we've completed the payment & we've got our
domain & hosting
Which means we can now install wordpress!
Okay
So to install wordpress, let's click "add site"
And click 'Get started'
Now just select the domain name you've purchased
and click 'Next'
then again 'Next'
And now you need to enter a username and password for
WordPress
This will be used when you login to wordpress
So, I'm going to type my name
and the password
and then click 'Install'
Okay, So now we're installed wordpress
So, let's click 'Get Started'
Now let's skip this by clicking 'No Thanks'
and 'OK'
Okay, so now we have reached our Wordpress
Dashboard
This is the place from where you can control your website
Now if you want to come to this page again,
you just have to enter, 'slash login',
after your domain name
And it will take you to your dashboard
So once, you reach this page,
your new wordpress site, should be live
So to check that
Let's go to our domain name
Which is totaltechy.com
and press 'Enter'
And as you can see our website is now running,
So now we've launched our new wordpress site
Which means we can now go to STEP 3
Which is to Bring in, the blogger content into
wordpress
So to import our blogger content,
let's go to wordpress
And then go to 'tools'
and click 'Import'
Now as we're going to import the blogger content,
Let's click 'install now'
next to blogger
And then click 'run importer'
Now let's choose the file which we want to import
So select the file which you downloaded from blogger,
in step 1
And click, 'Upload file and import'
Now click 'Submit' to start the import
and! all the blogger's content will be imported into
wordpress!
So now, let's take a look at our site
Now if we scroll down,
you can see that,
all our content has been imported from blogger
Right now, we have the default wordpress theme
Next, we'll quickly change this theme
so that our site looks a bit better
So to change the theme
will go here
and click themes
And you'll see the, default themes,
which are available on your site
But we're going to Add a new one, by clicking 'add new'
And then go into popular,
And choose any theme you want from here
I'm going to choose this theme
Just Click install
to get the theme into your site
And click 'activate', to apply the theme
So now we have changed our website's theme!
So let's see how our site's looks now
So, Let's go back to our site
And this was our old design
Now let's click refresh
And as you can see our website's design has
changed
Okay!
So we saw, how we can import the content & change the
design of our site
now let's go to the final step,
which is to get our old blogger links working
So by doing this, when people to go your
old link
It will redirect to the same blog post
on the new wordpress site
This will ensure people are still able to access your
site, through the old links
Your old links will still work and bring people to the
same posts which are now on wordpress
Now, This will also help you keep your google rankings,
you've gained on your blogger
So to get the old links working
we're going to do 2 things
1st, we're going to Change the settings in wordpress,
to match our new website links with the Blogger links
So to change the settings
Let's go to our dashboard
and click 'Settings'
Now first, we'll change the time zone here
Choose your location
and Click 'Save'
Now go to 'Permalinks'
And choose Month and Name
as this is the format which blogger uses and we want to
match with that
And then click 'Save Changes'
Okay so now we are done with the settings part
Next let's install the wordpress plugin
which will redirect our old blogger links to our
new-site, totaltechicom
So to install the plugin, let's go to our Dashboard
And then go to 'Plugins'
And click 'add new'
now search for 'Blogger to WordPress'
And install this plugin
So let's click 'Install'
and then 'Activate'
Okay so the plugin is now installed on our site
Now to set it up,
let's go to 'Tools'
and then click 'Blogger to WordPress redirection'
Now let's click 'start configuration'
And it will show you the blogger site,
which you've imported into wordpress
Se we'll click 'get code' button, next to it
And it will show you something like this
Now to setup the redirection we need to add this code
into blogger, so that it can redirect the visitors,
to our new website
So to enable the redirection
let's select and copy this code
And then go to Blogger
And go to Theme
Then scroll down
And click 'Revert to classic themes'
And click revert
Now this is where we're going to enter our new code
So let's select everything
and delete it
And paste the code, you copied from the wordpress plugin
Then click save theme
Okay so now we have setup the redirection
And your old blogspot links, will redirect to your new
domain
So now let's check if the redirect is working
Let's go to the old blogspot URL
Which is totaltechiblogspot.in
And press 'enter'
you can see that it redirects to our new website!
which is totaltechi.com
Now if someone tries to visit your post through the old link
It will take them, to the same post,
on the new website
This means you will keep all your existing traffic
So that's it guys!
This is how you can move to your blogger to
wordpress
Now if you want to start moving your site,
just click here
And it will take you to the page,
where you can get your domain & install wordpress
Now to see how you can build your website using drag & drop
you can watch this video
So let me know if this worked for you,
in the comments section below
I'll see you in the next video
Take Care
Babye :)