Blogger to WordPress · Blog migration specialists
Blogger To WordPress Migration Service
- We’ll import all your Blogger posts, labels and pages into WordPress
- We’ll rebuild your site design as a fully custom WordPress theme
- We’ll redirect your Blogger URLs to protect your Google rankings
I have worked with James and Square Internet since 2018. My experience is entirely positive. He is honest and easy to work with. His communication is excellent, and he is extremely fast and efficient. I absolutely recommend him.
Matthew Wadsworth
Owner, Deux Elles
Why Move From Blogger To WordPress?
Blogger is Google’s free publishing platform, originally built for hobbyist bloggers rather than growing businesses. These are the four reasons most Blogger users make the move to WordPress.
Full design flexibility
Blogger offers a handful of basic templates with limited customisation options. WordPress gives you access to thousands of professional themes and page builders like Elementor, so you can build any design you can imagine, free from the constraints of Blogger’s template system.
A huge plugin ecosystem
WordPress has over 60,000 plugins covering everything from SEO and forms to e-commerce and membership. Blogger has no plugin system at all, so every additional feature requires manual code edits to the template. Moving to WordPress means accessing a vast ecosystem of ready-built tools, at little or no cost.
Easier day-to-day editing
Most teams find WordPress far more capable than Blogger’s basic post editor. You can create rich, well-structured pages with custom layouts, sidebars and media, without writing a line of code. Blogger’s editor was designed for personal blogs, not professional business websites.
A bigger community & support pool
WordPress powers over 40% of the web, with help available everywhere: documentation, tutorials, forums and agencies. You’re never dependent on Google keeping Blogger alive, and finding developers, designers or agencies who know WordPress inside out is easy, wherever you look.
Why us
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How it works
How Does Our Blogger To WordPress Migration Service Work?
Moving from Blogger to WordPress involves more than a content transfer. It means rebuilding your site’s design as a proper WordPress theme, preserving the URL structure your readers and search engines already know, and carrying over every post with its labels, images and metadata intact.
Designing Your WordPress Theme To Match Blogger
We start by rebuilding your Blogger site’s look and feel as a WordPress theme, matching your layout, colour scheme and typography so your regular readers don’t notice a jarring change. If you’ve been using a custom Blogger template, we translate the key design elements into WordPress. Our preferred tool is Elementor, which gives you complete design flexibility without needing a developer for every future tweak.
Content Mapping
Blogger stores posts, labels and pages in a format that doesn’t match WordPress directly. The WordPress importer handles basic Blogger exports but routinely drops images, breaks image URLs and loses label associations. We write a bespoke migration script that maps your Blogger posts and labels to WordPress posts and categories, fetches all media to your WordPress media library, and preserves each post’s original publish date and URL.
Testing & Going Live
Once your content is in WordPress and your theme is built, we test everything: post URLs, label archives, comment threading, media loading and any Blogger widgets you want to keep. We put 301 redirects in place for any URL pattern changes and verify all meta data is correctly transferred. After sign-off, we handle the domain switch and remain available for ongoing WordPress support once you’re live.
Our customers rate us EXCELLENT.
The team
The Team Behind Your Blogger To WordPress Migration
James is the owner of Square Internet and is responsible for making sure everything runs like a well oiled machine.
Danilo is a skilled senior full stack WordPress developer with years of experience building, debugging and optimising WordPress sites.
Martin is a certified ScrumMaster (CSM)® and has 8 years experience in the software industry. He is responsible for managing our WordPress support projects and ensuring that work is completed in full to deadline.
From our end, customers have been very happy with the sites your team put together. Quite a few have had zero requested revisions and had us immediately update their DNS. We really appreciate your help and high-quality work.
Pre-launch checklist
Blogger to WordPress Migration Checklist
Is your WordPress site being built on a staging environment while your Blogger blog stays live? Your readers should have uninterrupted access to your posts throughout the migration. Never switch over before the new site has been fully tested.
Have all Blogger posts been imported with the correct labels, featured images and original publish dates?
Does your WordPress site have the same design and functionality? Check that all functionality works as it should, it could be different on WordPress
Is your newly migrated site fully mobile responsive? If it wasn’t before, should it be now?
Use view page source by right clicking with your mouse on a page or post to check that the meta data is correct and matches your old site
Ensure that you are using the correct domain prefix, if you are using www on your old website, your new site on WordPress should do the same
Check that any scripts used for marketing, analytics or embedding third party services have been placed in the correct place on your new WordPress website, or these services may break
Frequently asked questions about Blogger to WordPress migrations
In most cases, yes. We set up 301 redirects from your old Blogger URLs to the equivalent WordPress posts, so any backlinks or bookmarked pages continue to work and Google’s index carries over without a rankings drop. If your Blogger site was on a custom domain, the URL structure can usually be matched exactly in WordPress, keeping the redirect layer minimal.
No — protecting your search visibility is one of the main reasons to migrate properly. We preserve your existing URL structure, page titles and meta data, and put any required 301 redirects in place so that link equity carries over. This is exactly where automated tools fall down, and exactly where a hand-built migration protects you.
No. We build and test your new WordPress site on a separate staging environment, completely away from your live site and your customers. Your current Blogger site stays online and untouched the entire time. We only switch over to the new website once it has been fully tested and signed off by you.
No. Automated tools are unreliable and struggle even with the simplest sites. They routinely mangle content, site structure and meta data. We write a bespoke script that maps your Blogger posts and content types to the correct fields in WordPress, so pages, posts, images and meta data all land in the right place. Your new site is then built on top.
We can work with whichever framework you’re comfortable with. For most clients we recommend Elementor as the most cost-effective and easy-to-maintain option, but if you prefer Gutenberg, a custom theme or another builder, we’re happy to build to that.
Every site is different, so we price each migration individually based on the number of templates, the volume of content and the complexity of functionality. Most projects fall between the £2,000 to £5,000 range. Fill in the form below with a link to your current site and we’ll get back in touch to provide a quote.
Due to our thorough testing process, your site will go live seamlessly. However, we will be on hand to assist should any teething issues arise, and many clients choose to move onto one of our ongoing WordPress maintenance plans for updates, backups, security and support.
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