Tips before you change your blogging platform to wordpress

Posted by Anonymous on 1/28/2012

Hey guys
All people come to a situation where they change their blogging platform
I've mad a lot of mistakes :P so I am writing for welfare of my readers :)

Never change your domain

First of all before changing your platform from blogger to wordpress you must have in your ind that you must change your site within the same domain you use as wordpress takes more time than blogger to get indexed by google.
So first install wordpress on your hosting and import your posts from blogger. Here are the steps you need to do.

Go to blogger settings publishing and click go to blogspot domain and then verify captcha

At the same time go to your domain and change the nameservers to your host For example my host is x10hosting

So my nameservers should be ns1.x10hosting and ns2.x10hosting

Go to your host and install wordpress in your domain you used for blogger ( you have to add the domain in parked domain of your host ask me if you have any doubts regarding this)

Then go to your domain.com/wp-admin and go to tools -> Import and then give your gmail id which you used for this domain

You can import all your posts and comments through this way :)

Note:See this post for redirecting your blogger domain to your new wp blog so that you don't loose your sub-domain readers

Never choose a free host

This is the thing I didn't and am scared every night before I sleep. I use a free host which is actually a worst decision I've made in my whole life :(

So I say it you all never use a cheap host or a free one. I will be buying a host soon :) or maybe going back to blogger :(

That's the thing about wordpress that you can't leave this and go back to blogger So make a wise decision first itself

Make the best use of plugins

In wordpress there is only one disadvantage as I said earlier that is Google will not index fast , Alexa will go up.

So it your intelligence to make the best use of wordpress , Here are some plugins you need for being a good blogger