Thursday, April 20, 2017

Moving your wordpress blog site to blogger.

If you want to use google adsense to monetize your blog you could either buy a new domain or you could use the blogger website.The wordpress free site did not allowed to be registered for adsense for me.

So what do i do. I sign up for google adsense.




https://www.google.com/adsense/start/#/?modal_active=none


Enter your blogger website. Mine is http://paragonwindows.blogspot.com.

Now to transfer all your blog posts from  wordpress to blogger would have been a chore,until I ran into this gem of a site. 
Here is how I did it.

First login to your wordpress account and export your blog file using the start export button.
 
 

It spews out a nice little xml file that can be saved to your disk. I had over 50 published pages and 9 drafts. The xml file was only 226 KB. Go figure.

Now to convert this to a blogger friendly format. Login to this converter site and convert your blog. Link for wordpress to blogger converter.
http://www.wordpress-to-blogger-converter.appspot.com/

 

Saved this file on my disk too. This turned out to be only 148 KB. As if I was not dissapointed enough by the size.

Then back to blogger. Click design to get to your blog if you don't have that page open already. Click on settings--other and click the import content button.

 

Prove that you are not a robot and uncheck the Automatically publish button if you don't want to publish your blog posts immediately. 



 Rest is easy.

http://www.staples.com/Staples-Easy-Button/product_606396