How to transfer from Blogspot to WordPress

Many bloggers started off from Blogspot of Google because it is free, user- friendly and it does not have to be self- hosted. If you have reached another stage of blogging and have the budget, you can easily move from Blogger to WordPress. WordPress is another blogging platform that is used by thousands of bloggers. There is a large community backing the development of WordPress. Therefore, you can easily find solutions to wordpress-related problems. There are two basic types of WordPress, wordpress.com and WordPress.org. WordPress.com is similar to blogspot as you do not have to buy web hosting in order to use them. WordPress.org is free but you need buy web hosting plan in order to host it. However, web hosting is cheap these days especially if you use a discount coupon code .

I will provide a tutorial on how to transfer your blog from Blogspot to Wordress.org.
1) Sign up for a web hosting plan. It is recommended to start from shared hosting as it is affordable and most web hosts provide wordpress installation in just a few clicks. Most plans provide free top level domain name forever as long as you use their web hosting plan.

To run WordPress, your web host just need to meet the following criterias:
- PHP version 4.3 or greater
- MySQL version 4.0 or greater

The following are a few recommended web hosting companies as they install WordPress in just a few clicks.

Bluehost. This blog that you are reading now is hosted by Bluehost and I am satisfied with their customer support.

Ipage offers web hosting plan that costs only $3.50 per month. It includes $125 worth of free Google, Yahoo! & Facebook Marketing Credits.

2) After signing up for a web hosting plan, go to the control panel where you manage every aspects of your web hosting account. If you are using CPanel, go to install the script of WordPress.

3) Choose the version of wordpress you want to install and the directory where you need to install wordpress. Click the install button and it’s done. It is as simple as that.

4) After you successfully installed WordPress on your web hosting account, go to Import under the Tools tab. On the import screen you will see a list of different blogging platforms you can import from (Blogger is top on the list). Choose to import from Blogger.

5) You will then be prompted to install the Blogger-importer plugin. This plugin is needed to automate the process of importing blog posts from Blogger. This is the power of WordPress.org as it has numerous plugins that simplify different tasks of blogging.

Then, click the Install Now button.

6) After installing the plugin, you need to authorize WordPress to access your blogger account. Thereafter, log into your Google Account where your Blogspot blog is located. You will then be transferred back to WordPress where you need to choose the blog that you need to import into WordPress.

After importing your blog from Blogspot, you will find your Blogspot posts in the posts section of WordPress. Everything is done.

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