On Wordpress Finally

I finally got one of my blog on Wordpress - I installed the software and imported my existing Blogger blog.

This is what I did.

The Blogger blog was originally published to my server. Wordpress did not have a function to import Blogger blogs published own server. So to work around the restriction, I had to re-publish all the pages to Blogspot.com**. Then imported them to my new Wordpress blog.

Fortunately, there were only 30+ posts, so it didn’t take too long. It was a pretty smooth process.

The difficult part is the customizing of the Wordpress template. Well, I got some Wordpress tips from Blogopreneur and actually managed to create a satisfactory search engine optimized template!

You can take a look at and compare the new Shi Heng Cheong Blog (Wordpress) with the older Shi Heng Cheong blog (Blogger.com) versions.

**I added <meta=”robots” content=”noindex”> to prevent indexing of these page so that my new pages created Wordpress will be the ones to be indexed.

For more information on moving Blogger blogs to hosted Wordpress blog, please read this very useful post by Tom Sherman: Moving from Blogger to WordPress: Best Practices

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