How to Switch from Blogger to WordPress

How to switch from Blogger to WordPress without losing Google Rankings is teasing question for newbie. Here we shall describe details of this process so that newbie can’t face any problem and do it easily. Before start this process you should have some knowledge about Blogger and WordPress. So we shall start with this.

Blogger is one of the biggest platforms for newbie to start blogging without paying a penny. Anyone from this planet can start blogging here and make his/her carrier in blogging. There is also other platform providing free blogging but all free platforms have some limitation like Blogger.

Blogger providing all kind of facility to its user even monetize blog but won’t give ownership, that is why after getting success, most of bloggers want to switch to self hosted wordpress.org. If you are blogging from Blogger then you don’t have full control on you blog and whenever blogger want, can remove your blog or any post. This is why bloggers want to switch self hosted wordpress.org blog.

It is suppose that WordPress is one of the best open platforms for blogging and people can become owner of his/ her own bog. Whenever, one can’t be owner of blogger’s bog. Blogger provides free blogging but keep all right reserved and provide only admin and author’s right. This is the key point to any user to switch to WordPress. But they don’t know how to switch from Blogger to WordPress. They have to take service of some expert who charges  a handsome amount.  

Here, in this tutorial you’ll learn how to switch from Blogger to WordPress without loosing Google Rankings and without paying any money. Yes, its true. You can do it yourself. Once you learnt this, you can help other or earn money through this.

Step 1:- To get started with WordPress, there is need of a good WordPress hosting company and a good domain name. There are lots of webhosting companies but we like to suggest you either Bluehost or Siteground. They provide free domain with some discount plan, especially for WordPress Beginner user. Bluehost is an officially recommended webhosting service provider of WordPress world. Both Bluehost and Siteground offer same special offer plan for Beginner user of WrodPress world.

Now, come to the point, your first job is to select your webhosting company and sign up and set up your favorite domain if available otherwise choose other close to your old domain. After this, your next step is to install WordPress on your hosting account. Once you completed installation WordPress, you need to transfer your content from Blogger to WordPress.

Step 2:- In this step, you need to export your blogger’s blog content. For this, log in your blogger dashboard and move towards Setting >> Other page. In this section move to, “under the blog tools”, click on the export Blog link.

When you click on export, a popup menu will appear, click on Download Blog button. Download your Blogger blog’s content to your computer in a XML file. Once it completed, your next job is to import it into your WordPress site.

Step 3:- In this step you need to import your Blogger into WordPress. For this, you need to move to your WordPress admin and visit Tools >> Import. Here, on the Import page, you will see many options, search Blogger and click it.

A popup menu will appear which ask you to install the Blogger to WordPress importer. Click it to start installation on install button. Now, WordPress will start download and Blogger importer plugin for you. Once this process is completed, you would need to click on the Activate Plugin and Run importer link to continue.

Further, you will see on the Import Blogger screen, WordPress will ask you to upload the XML file. This is the file that you downloaded in first steps. Now, you have to do a simple job, simply click on the choose file button and start upload the XML file.

Now, if you hadn’t selected one of our recommended hosts or your website is indeed too large, you could face some problem, you may get an error that your file size is too large. In this case you need to increase your maximum file upload limit. If your file is small, then you won’t face any problem.

                               How to increase the maximum file upload size in WordPress 

Now, WordPress will start import your blogger posts one by one, when it completed, you’ll be asked to assign an author to the imported posts. You can assign your blogger posts to an existing author, who is not other than you, or if hired some authors then create a new authors account.

Wow! Congrats! You got through to transfer your blogger account into WordPress. Though you have successfully completed this process, however, you still need to make sure whether you don’t loose any search rankings and that visitors from your old blog can easily land to the same content on your new WordPress Website.

Step 4:- Setting Up Permalinks:- Permalinks refers to the term use for URL configuration of specific pages. World Press embedded a feature that allows you to set up SEO friendly URL configuration. Since you are shifting content from Blogger, you need to keep your URL configuration that approaches to your URL configuration of Blogger as much as it is possible.

To set permalinks, you should go to Setting >> Permalinks screen as choose Month and Name as your permalink configuration.

Step 5:- Setting Up Redirection:- It is most important factor for your website to retain your regular readers because they are very important for you; when they could not find your website on old URL they can think that website has been either deleted or shifted somewhere else. So it is important for you to escape your readers from getting confuse. To avoid such situation there is a feature in WordPress that will redirect your old URL to new URL.

For this you have to redirect users to land on exactly the same page on the new website which they are trying to access on the old site. Along with this, it is also important to notified search engines and informs that your old site has been shifted to a new location.

 
Redirection process will complete in two steps. First, you should redirect Blogger to you new WordPress blog. Second, when users reached you new WordPress site, you can redirect them to the exact post they are looking for to read.

So, first set up redirection on the Blogger blog. For this, log on your Blogger account and move to Blog’s settings and click on Template. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Revert to Classic Templet link.

After accessing to classic template, you will see “Edit Template HTML” textarea. Here, you need to replace everything in this text area with the following code. Make sure that you replace http://www.xyz.com with your own domain name.

01|	<html>
02|	<head>

03|	<title><$BlogPageTitle$></title>
04|

05|	<script>
06|	<MainOrArchivePage>

07|	window.location.href="http://example.com/"
08|	</MainOrArchivePage>

09|	<Blogger>
10|	<ItemPage>

11|	window.location.href="http://example.com/?blogger=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>"
12|		</ItemPage>

13|	</Blogger>
14|	</script>

15|
16|	<MainPage>

17|	<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/" />
18|	</MainPage>

19|
20|	<Blogger>

21|	<ItemPage>
22|	<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/?blogger=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>" />

23|	</ItemPage>
24|	</Blogger>

25|	</head>
26|

27|	<body>
28|	<MainOrArchivePage>

29|	<h1><a href="http://example.com/"><$BlogTitle$></a></h1>
30|	</MainOrArchivePage>

31|	<Blogger>
32|	<ItemPage>

33|	<h1><a href="http://example.com/?blogger=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>"><$BlogItemTitle$></a></h1>
34|		<$BlogItemBody$>

35|	</ItemPage>
36|	</Blogger>

37|	</body>
38|	</html>

Save your template, and now look, you redirection is successfully completed on your Blogger blog but you still need to complete some steps to setup redirection on your WordPress site so that users can redirected to the proper posts.

For this you need to copy and paste the following code in your WordPress theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin.

01	function blogger_query_vars_filter( $vars ) {
02	$vars[] = "blogger";

03	return $vars;
04	}

05
06	add_filter('query_vars', 'blogger_query_vars_filter');

07
08	function blogger_template_redirect() {

09	global $wp_query;
10	$blogger = $wp_query->query_vars['blogger'];

11	if ( isset ( $blogger ) ) {
12	wp_redirect( get_wordpress_url ( $blogger ) , 301 );

13	exit;
14	}

15	}
16

17	add_action( 'template_redirect', 'blogger_template_redirect' );
18

19	function get_wordpress_url($blogger) {
20	if ( preg_match('@^(?:https?://)?([^/]+)(.*)@i', $blogger, $url_parts) ) {

21	$query = new WP_Query (
22	array ( "meta_key" => "blogger_permalink", "meta_value" => $url_parts[2] ) );

23	if ($query->have_posts()) {
24	$query->the_post();

25	$url = get_permalink();
26	}

27	wp_reset_postdata();
28	}

29	return $url ? $url : home_url();
30	}

The code above mentioned, creates a blogger to WordPress 301 redirect that is what you need to ensure best SEO. When you have pasted this code, that’s all you need to do for setting up redirection.
Now any visitors can access to a post on your old Blogger blog will be redirected to the same post on your new WordPress site.

Step 6:- Redirect Feeds:- Your RSS subscribers on the old Bogger site will not access your new site because he does not have information. So you need to redirect your Blogger feed to your new WordPress site’s feed.

You can short out this problem by logging in to your Blogger account which is already open, now move to Setting >> other page under your blog dashboard. Under the Feed section, you need to click on Add link next to Post Feed Redirect URL. Here you have to enter your new WordPress site’s feed address.

Usually it http://your-outstanding-site.com/feed / ( don’t forget to replace your –awesome-site with your own domain name).

Step 7:- Import Image From Blogger to WordPress Media Library

When switching from Blogger to WordPress happens, the WordPress importer download images from your blogger posts into the WordPress media library. However, it can fail to download some images. This doesn’t happens usually, but it can transpire. there is possibility. But no need to take tension, still you can find it and import these images into WordPress. WordPress. Follow the instructions in our how to import external images in WordPress tutorial.

Importing External Images in WordPress: For this we shall use a plugin called Import External Images, This plugin makes work very easy and let local copies of all the linked images in a post and add them according to gallery attachments for the specific post. But first we need to install this plugin and activate it.

After doing it, move to Media >> Import Images. The plugin will look for and display external images in your posts. All you need to do is click on Import Images now button to import all these images.  Import External Images plugin imports only 50 images at a time to run smoothly.

However if you encounter the memory exhausted error, then you can increase your PHP memory limit. Once it has processed 50 images the plugin will show out the remaining images, click on Import Images now button again to continue. It will also show you linked images in the post editor in case you want to import images selectively. All you have to do is go the edit screen of the specific post and impost the images that you want.

In this way, you will import all images from your blogger into your Word Press Media Library. Once the images reached in your WordPress media library, you can easily create image galleries and more.

I hope, this tutorial helped you to switch from Blogger to WordPress without losing Google rankings. Here you are welcomed in the WordPress community.

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There are billions of Facebook user on the globe who spend their spare time on Facebook. They do text chatting and video chatting. They do comment, like, unlike, tagging picture and share one another’s post. They post text, pictures and video; these are usual and popular activity on Facebook and most of user knew it but a smaller number of people know that Facebook provides sms facility. Don’t get surprised? It is true.

Facebook provides sms facility to its user absolutely free. You can send sms to someone who is very close to your heart or your relatives and friends across the globe; there is no restriction for any specific country. Are you excited to know? Shall I lift curtain over this secret? Okay! Okay baba okay, don’t lose you patient. I am going to let you know about another facebook application. Are you ready? Okayyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Get ready, here is the secret: Follow these steps to send sms to your love one.

1st Step: First login to your Facebook Account and go to the Facebook Chat Application.

2nd Step: Select your country name in first line. Next line, enter the mobile number of receiver (the person whom you sending message). Next linem, there is a box where you can write your message and finally click on sent box. Your sms will reach at its destination on blinking of eyes. Enjoy this service.

Limitation:- But there is some limitation of this application. Length of sms should not be more than 100 characters and you can send only four SMS daily.

Warning: Beware if you indented to indulge in any illegal activity with this service, don’t do this. It will display your name at the beginning of message and you will be easily identified. So don’t be malice and use this service for sending good message to anyone.  

How to Open Multiple Gmail, Facebook, Twitter or other Social Network Account in one Browser Semultaneously

If you have multiple Facebook or Gmail account and want to open it simultaneously in same browser, you can’t, because most of the browser does not provide this facility. But don’t worry, you can get rid from this problem and open your multiple Facebook or Gmail account simultaneously in same browser. Google Chrome and Mozila Firefox provide this facility.

How to open: To open multiple account with Google Chrome please follow these steps:

(i). First Method:  Open Google Chrome and go to the right top corner of computer screen and click on the “ranch” icon. A drop down menu will appear, scroll down and click on new incognito window. A new window will open. Now, you can open your other Facebook account without log out first one as well as open your other Gmail. account without log out.

(ii). Second Method:  To open new incognito window directly, there is a short key “ctrl + shift + N”. Just press ctrl + shift + N together. A new window will appear and you can open you another Facebook account or Gmail account. Same process is applicable in Mozila Firefox browser.



How to open multiple Facebook account in Mozila Firefox:- Open Mozila Firefox browser go to upper right hand side corner; There is a three parallel bold line icon, click it a pop up menu will appear there. There are many option, explore "New Private Window". A new Window will open. Now you can open your another Facebook account or your Gmail account. Similarly your can open any other social  site that permits multiple account in same browser semultaneously.

How to maximize Image upload limit in WordPress

                        How to increase the Maximum File Upload Size in WordPress:-



How to increase the maximum file upload size in WordPress depends on web hosting company and desired package. You can see  maximum file upload limit on Media Uploader page (in WordPress). it's not enough for some user because it is as low as 2MB. It is also not enough for media file like audio or video. Most images come under 2MP category  therefore, it is ideal for only images. 

In this tutorial we'll teach, "how to fix and maximize the maximum file upload size upload size in WorldPress.


 
For some it is as low as 2MB, which is clearly not enough for media files like (audio / video). Most pictures are under 2MB, so it is fine of just pictures. In this article, we will show you how to increase the maximum file upload size in WordPress.

Note: Since it  is an intermediate level tutorial. It may not function with some shared hosts in that case you need support of your webhostor; take their help. Since we have selected HostGator as web-hostingl company so they would prove more helpful when some issue arises. 



1.Theme Functions File


There are some cases where we have seen that just by adding the following code in the theme functions file, you can increase the upload size:


1|@ini_set(‘upload_max_size’ , ‘64’ );
2|@ini_set(‘post_max_size’ , ‘64’ );
3|@ini_set(‘max_execution_time’ , ‘300’  );

2 Create or Edit an existing PHP.INI file


In most cases if you are on a share host, you will not see a php.ini file in your directory. If do not see one, then create a file called php.ini and upload it in the root folder. In that file add the following code:

1|upload_max_filesize = 64M
2|post_max_size = 64M
3|max_executionn_time = 300




This method is reported to work for many users. Remember if 64 doesn’t work. Thry 10MB (sometimes that work).



3.Htaccess Method



Some people have tried using the htaccess method were by modifying the htaccess file in the root directory, you can increase the maximum upload size in WordPress. Open or create the .htaccess file in the root folder and add the following code:





1|php_value upload_max_filesize 64M
2|php_vlaue post_max_size 64M
3|php_value max_execution_time 300
4|php_value max_input_time 300





Again, it is important that we emphasize that if you are on a shared hosting package, then these techniques may not work. In that case, you would have to contact your web hosting provider to increase the limit for you. Some hosts completely turn down their users. We recommend that you use HostGator. Their support folks are very helpful in these situations.

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