How To Import Post From Previous Blogger or WordPress Site
Are you coming from Blogger to WordPress? Or moving from one WordPress blog to another? Whichever the case, you want to still keep your old posts and want them on your new blog. Happily, WordPress supports importing data in the form of posts (articles) and most of the details or features supported by the content publishing platform.
This tutorial will help you move your posts from your old blog to your new site.
Moving Post From Blogger To WordPress
You can import posts, comments, and categories from a Blogger blog and migrate authors to WordPress users.
If you haven’t already, you must be using New Blogger and a Google Account on Blogger. If you are still using Old Blogger, the importer will not work.
Export your Blogger contents as XML file using this method;
- Sign in to Blogger.
- Click the blog to back up.
- In the left menu, click Settingsand thenOther.
- In the “Import & back up” section, click Back up Contentand thenSave to your computer.
- Next, Log into that WordPress site as an administrator.
- Go to Tools → Import in the Administration Screen.
- Click “Install Now” link under the “Blogger” if you have not yet installed it.
- Click “Run Importer” link.
- Click the “Browse” button and navigate to the Blogger Exported XML file and click “Upload file and import” to let it run
Moving Post From WordPress To WordPress
To import from a WordPress export file (WXR) into a WordPress blog follow these steps.
- Log into that blog as an administrator.
- Go to Tools → Import in the blog’s Administration Screen.
- Click “Install Now” link under the “WordPress”
- Click “Run Importer” link.
- Upload your WXR file using the form provided on that page.
You will first be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.
WordPress will then import each of the posts, comments, and categories contained in the uploaded file into your blog. In addition, you can import attachment by checking the “Download and import file attachments” option.
With these steps, you will successfully import your old posts from your previous Blogger or WordPress blog to your new one. I hope you found this useful.
