Need To Move Your Blog To WordPress?
Mar. 30th, 2009 by Thomas McMahonWe’ve talked about the benefits of owning your own blog, but what if you’ve already got a blog someplace else and want to move it to your own, hosted, WordPress blog? You can do that.
WordPress offers a number of easy import options for most major free or paid blogging platforms out there. This makes it easy to move away from other software to your own, hosted, WordPress blog.
WordPress currently offers the ability to import:
* Blogger
* Blogware
* DotClear
* GreyMatter
* LiveJournal
* Movable Type
* TypePad
* Textpattern
* WordPress
* OPML Files
* RSS Feeds
Each one of these options can be access by logging into your hosted WordPress blog and visiting the Tools -> Import section. From there, WordPress will give specific step-by-step instructions on what to do.
Additional blogging platforms can also be imported, but are not officially supported. This includes:
* b2
* b2evolution
* Blosxom
* Drupal
* e107 CMS
* Excel/CSV Spreadsheet
* Jogger.pl
* Live Space (MSN Space)
* Mambo
* Motime - Splinder
* Pivot
* Plone
* PostNuke
* Nucleus CMS
* Radio Userland
* Roller
* Typo
* web-log.nl
* Xanga
* Zoomblog
* [X]HTML
Information on how to import this content can be found at: http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content
When it comes to sites like MySpace or Facebook, importing the content can be trickier. You can try the RSS approach or see if the social network offers an export function, but you may end up having to copy and paste the content into your new site. Currently, social networks don’t make it easy to get out what you put in.
The down side to moving all your content to your own hosted blog is you’ll loose any inbound links, rankings in search engines, and any exposure those posts may have built up at the original location. However, in time, the benefits of owning, and controlling, your blog are much greater over time.
About The Author
Thomas McMahon is a SEO Designer for TopRank Online Marketing in Minneapolis, MN. His specialities inlude technical optimization of existing web sites, creating search engine friendly web designs, and blog optimization. He has also created a number of blog marketing tools, WordPress plug-ins and FireFox add-ons. Blog: http://bloggerdesign.comPosted in: The Net |
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April 2nd, 2009 at 7:07 am
Would you please provide your contact email id i want to contact you, i try to contact via your contact page but there is not contact detail available, so please provide me your official blog contact email id.
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:44 am
WordPress is definitely one of the front runners as far as blogging platforms go, and pretty much king of the hill when we start looking at all the plugins and themes that are available. This universal nature of WordPress is what makes it so great. A hard act to follow, indeed!
May 20th, 2009 at 7:46 am
WordPress is great platform for blogger. It’s easy to use, good themes and good plugins are available. Thanks for information.
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August 2nd, 2009 at 8:56 am
I need to set up a WordPress blog, but I don’t have any money to spend on it. I want to host it initially for free and then move it to a new host when I have the cash. Is this possible? Is it just basically using the Import feature or can you actually download your blog database and upload it to a new host? How hard is that for the not so technical user?