Migrating Blogger to Wordpress

This site started as just a blog managed by the Google Blogger service, however that never made me feel like I was doing it true web-designer stylee, so when Blogger announced they were ceasing the FTP upload service recently that gave me no option but to migrate and move it over to Wordpress. So a couple of lengthy sessions on the laptop and I’ve managed to do it.

To integrate Wordpress into the mediacenterhouse.com layout required editing the .php templates, but nothing too complicated. If trying it yourself, pick a basic theme (the default is good), and paste your blocks of HTML into it paying attention to modifying the CSS as well.

Finally, to get the posts from Blogger imported into Wordpress requires setting the Blogger service as hosted by Google themselves (away from self hosting), then run the Import feature in the Wordpress admin section. Easy!

Still a bit more fine tuning to do, but the bulk of it has been done

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