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5 Things to Remember: Moving from Blogger to WordPress

When I made the move from Blogger to WordPress, the process of moving posts was fairly simple. I had no problems importing posts, and overall the move was painless for the most part. I wrote about Some of the Differences Between WordPress and Blogger in the beginning of August.

There are a few things that I found that are not really differences as much as things to consider in the move. Especially if you have a lot of posts (I had over 300).

1. If you have links within posts, they will be imported with the old links. I did a Lot of Intra-linking to reference other posts I had written on various subjects. They ALL still reference the Old URL’s. That being the case, I will have to leave the Blogger URL intact so that anyone clicking on a link will have something to see. I AM NOT going to change that many links to the new site URL’s.

2. You may have noticed on a lot of the postings prior to the move have the little block with the (x) instead of a picture. That is because when they were uploaded they were put in a Blogger.com file. They will not transfer when you do an import of the Blogger posts. Although I have all the jpg files on my hard drive, I AM NOT going to upload that many pics just to make old postings look the way they did when they were first written.

3. For whatever reason, I’m not sure if Blogger just didn’t like references or links, At Least One of my posts was Edited (censored) by Blogger in the transfer. I did rant about that, but at this point it doesn’t really matter since I have both the old and new posts for that battle.

4. I did mention in the Differences Between post that since Categories were non-existent on Blogger, everything imported needs to be put in it’s proper categoy or it will default to Uncategorized. So, you will spend a lot of time putting things where they belong, just as I did.

5. Any additions or add-ons such as AdSense, Chitika, FeedBurner, Technorati or BlogTopSites will not transfer or be imported. You will have to re-do All of the Links for those type of ads and links, not to mention any Stastics Program you had running. I haven’t found any JavaScript links that did transfer.

I am sure there are other considerations that need to be addressed, I just haven’t come across them yet. Rest assured, when I do, they will show up here…

Have any of you noticed anything similar in your move from Blogger to WordPress (or any other platform)?

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August 8th, 2006 at 02:39pm | Posted by Joe | Blogger, Reviews, WordPress | 2 reader remarks | Print This Post