Thursday, January 7, 2016

How to Transfer your WordPress Blog to Blogger

Blogger is a widely used blogging platform from Google. It is a very simple platform and very easy to use. Any non technical person can easily use it. And the most important thing is its absolutely free, you did not have to waste a single penny.
WordPress : Another popular blogging platform, easy to use, open source. Lots of plugin, themes and Extensions. Like blogger you can also use it for free (free hosting and domain )and can also use your own custom domain and hosting.
convert wordpress to blogspot
But due some complexity in wordpress, some people like to switch on Blogger.com. At blogger it saves your maintenance and modification time. And is full proof secured platform. You can  Transfer your WordPress Blog to Blogger in just 5-10 minutes using these simple steps.

How to Transfer your WordPress Blog to Blogger ?

Exporting Database From WordPress
Step 1: First login to your WordPress Admin panel(using your Administrator Account ).
Step 2: Now in WordPress Menu, Navigate to Tools>>Export
How to Transfer your WordPress Blog to Blogger
Step 3: Now Chose All content option and then click on the Download Export File Button. This will give you a xml file.
export wordpress data
The xml file you got can not be imported to blogger.com, so you first need to convert it into blogger format.
Convert WordPress  Exported XML file into Blogger Format
There are certain apps and tools, that covert the XML file of WordPress into Blogger format.
Step 1: Go to app page
Step 2: Browse and open your WordPress Export XML file.
Step 3: Click on the Convert Button.
It will convert your file , so that it can be imported to Blogger.
Import to Blogger
Step 1: Now LogIn  to your Blogger Account.
Step 2: Now you can import this file into your new blog or can use existing blog. If you to import it to new blog then first create a New Blog.
Step 3: Now navigate to Settings>>Others>>Import from dashboard of your blog.
import xml into blogger
Step 4: Now browse the converted file, fill up all detail and click on Import BlogOption.
import xml into blogger
It will import all the post and they will be ready to published.
Its that easy to convert your WordPress Blog to Blogger.com . If you still find any issue regarding this you can ask it in comments.