This is it! I’m sorry if it took me more than 2 days to migrate from blogspot to wordpress. Although I have my own domain last January, my contents were hosted by blogspot/blogger. And this is my first post on this blog on wordpress. There were unexpected problems I encountered during migration even if I started googling around about my migration 2 weeks ago.
Problem #1:
I’m using wordpress 2.6. The import blogger tool didn’t work.
Solution:
- Make a temporary wordpress.com and import the blogspot/blogger file from there.
- After importing, export the file and save the xml file on your computer.
- This is the file to be import on domain.com.
Note: Its an old and simple trick but it did work. Don’t forget to delete all the files on your temporary wordpress.com or you will have stray duplicate contents on the web.
Problem #2:
I’ve been mentioning many times from my other blog that I’m not happy with the customer support of Mobile eBooks’ host. I’m having a hard time seeking answers and help on how can I make multiple blog on single account. 2 days is consumed nothing happened because I end up doing “trial and error”. I tried using their wordpress application (lower version) and I mistakenly overwrite ebooktechie’s wordpress files. I emailed them and ask them if they can restore my contents. Guess what? they will charge me $100++ forgot the exact amount if they restore it. Forget it! The sad part is my backup file is dated May 8.
Solution: The good thing is I understand the file manager. I manually upgrade the wordpress version. Be cautious in htaccess and wp-config file and wp-content folder.
Problem #3:
Permalink, this is the article link. As you can see, I don’t mind using the blogspot permalink even if this blog is already on wordpress. Why? To retain the google juice, I don’t want to start from scratch again. When I switched glitchline.com to glitchline.blogspot.com, its already a PR3. I guess, that answered my post Where’s PageRank.
Solution:
- On your wordpress admin panel, click settings
- Choose permalink
- Click custom structure and put this on the blank
/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html - Save changes
- Login to your blogspot.com, go to posts on admin panel
- Right click and open a new tab for every post
- If its a 404 error, edit the wordpress post link
My blogspot/blogger account is pointing to glitchline.com to avoid stray duplicate content. I may or may not transfer the PR3 or maybe sandboxed, at least I’m happy that glitchline is already a wordpress blog. There are still many things needed here which I will tackle soon.
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Congrats on your successful transfer. Your Glitchline blog can now enjoy the endless possibilities of a Wordpress blog.
the new wordpress site looks great! someday i like to follow in your footsteps and switch from blogger to wordpress!
There are two plugins that can save you much time and trouble with #3:
1. Redirection
First, you publish your old Blogger site to your new custom domain. There is no need to manually change the permalink of every old Blogger post. Then you install Redirection on your new WordPress site. When someone clicks on an old Blogger permalink, they are automatically redirected to the new site. No page rank loss should occur — didn’t for me.
2. Duplicate Content Cure
Install the duplicate content cure plugin and if there are any strays floating around, that will take care of them.
The new site looks good!!
This is one advantage and excellent feature of WordPress.
Permalink changing? No problem.
You can change the permalinks to what ever you want.
Your old permalink will be a 301 redirect to the new permalink.
Like on my blog,
I used to have /articles/year/day/name
until I realized I’ve got /articles/ which is really not needed.
I just removed /articles/ from the permalinks and everything is alright, the hits from Google keep on coming ^^,)
Bizphere, thanks.
Orange Derange,
I’m enjoying now endless possibilities of blogging at wordpress but still observing other things on my new platform.
If you have plans of migrating, the earlier the better. Good luck.
JHS, I didn’t bother to install redirection plugin at the moment until I completely checked on each post’s redirection. Better do it manually. I will install it now since I noticed some archive 404 error and still figuring out to fix it. redirection might do the work for that. Thanks for the suggestion, i haven’t heard of duplicate content cure, I will use it also.
Thank you for constantly updated, always a pleasure to read.
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