Moving from Blogger to WordPress can sound complicated, especially if your blog has hundreds or thousands of posts. But you don’t have to manually copy every article one by one.

WordPress provides tools that can import your Blogger content, while your new WordPress theme can give the site a completely different design. The important part is to plan the migration carefully so you don’t lose your articles, images, important URLs, or search traffic.

In this guide, we’ll explain how to move a Blogger blog to WordPress in simple steps, including what to do if you’re also changing your domain.

Why Move From Blogger to WordPress?

Blogger is easy to start with, but WordPress gives you much more control over your website.

With WordPress, you can have more control over:

• Website design
• SEO
• Plugins
• Performance
• Advertising
• Categories and content
• Custom features
• Website functionality
• Monetization

You can also use a completely custom WordPress theme instead of being limited to your existing Blogger design.

The good news is that you don’t have to start your blog from zero.

Your existing Blogger posts can be moved to WordPress.

Step 1: Back Up Your Blogger Blog

Before you move anything, create a backup of your Blogger website.

This is the most important first step.

Blogger provides an export/backup option that allows you to save your blog content. Google documents the process for backing up and importing Blogger content.

Keep the backup file somewhere safe.

For a blog with 1,000 articles, don’t rely on having only one copy.

You can keep the backup on your computer and in another secure location.

Don’t delete your Blogger blog yet.

Your old website may still be receiving visitors and search traffic.

Step 2: Set Up WordPress

Next, you need a WordPress website.

You’ll need:

• A domain name
• WordPress hosting
• WordPress installed on your hosting

If you already own a domain, you can use that domain.

If you’re moving to a completely new domain, you can build the WordPress website on the new domain while keeping your old Blogger website running.

You normally don’t need to create a database manually. Most WordPress hosting providers can create and configure the WordPress database during installation.

After installation, you should be able to access:

yourdomain.com/wp-admin/

This is where you’ll manage your new website.

Step 3: Choose Your WordPress Design

Now you need to decide how your new website will look.

You can use:

• A ready-made WordPress theme
• A page builder
• A custom WordPress theme
• An HTML design converted into a WordPress theme

If you already have a design you like, you don’t need to recreate your Blogger website exactly.

You can use this migration as an opportunity to create a completely new design.

For example:

Old Blogger website
        ↓
Old design

New WordPress website
        ↓
New modern design

Your articles remain the content, while WordPress controls the new design.

Step 4: Export Your Blogger Content

Now export your Blogger content.

Blogger uses an XML file for its content export.

That file contains information about your blog and its posts.

Think of it as a package containing your Blogger content.

Blogger
   ↓
Export
   ↓
XML file
   ↓
WordPress

Keep this file safe because you’ll use it during the WordPress import process.

Step 5: Import Blogger Posts Into WordPress

Once WordPress is ready, go to your WordPress dashboard.

Look for:

Tools → Import

WordPress provides a Blogger importer for moving Blogger content into WordPress. The official WordPress documentation says the Blogger importer can import posts, comments, categories and authors, while the importer documentation also covers images.

Upload your Blogger export file when prompted.

WordPress will then begin importing your content.

If you have 100 articles, you’ll have a lot of posts to check.

If you have 1,000 articles, don’t panic.

You don’t need to manually recreate them.

The purpose of the importer is to move the existing content into WordPress.

Step 6: Check Your Imported Posts

Don’t immediately assume everything is perfect after the import finishes.

Open several posts and check them carefully.

Check articles from different years and categories.

For example:

2019 article
2020 article
2021 article
2022 article
2023 article
2024 article
2025 article
2026 article

Check:

• Article title
• Article content
• Publication date
• Author
• Categories
• Images
• Links
• Formatting
• Comments, if applicable

If you have thousands of posts, you don’t have to manually open every article, but you should test a good sample from different periods and categories.

Step 7: Check Your Images

Images deserve special attention during a Blogger-to-WordPress migration.

Open some old articles and check whether their images are displaying correctly.

For example, check:

Old article
   ↓
Featured image
   ↓
Images inside article
   ↓
Captions

The WordPress Blogger importer supports image importing, but you should still verify your migrated content rather than assuming every image transferred perfectly.

If you discover missing images, fix those before switching your main domain.

Step 8: Recreate Important Pages

Not everything from a Blogger website necessarily becomes a normal WordPress page.

The standard Blogger importer doesn’t import things such as Blogger pages, widgets, widget data or templates.

So manually check your important pages.

For example:

• About
• Contact
• Privacy Policy
• Terms and Conditions
• DMCA
• Editorial Policy
• Corrections Policy

Create them using:

WordPress Dashboard → Pages → Add New

This is also a good opportunity to update your website’s policies and navigation.

Step 9: Set Up Your WordPress URLs

This step is extremely important.

Your old Blogger URLs may look something like:

example.com/2025/08/my-article.html

while your new WordPress URLs might look like:

example.com/my-article/

You need to decide whether you can keep the old URL structure or whether you need to redirect the old URLs to the new ones.

If your existing articles already receive Google traffic, don’t casually change thousands of URLs.

Google recommends using redirects when URLs move, including during site and domain migrations.

Step 10: Set Up 301 Redirects

A 301 redirect tells browsers and search engines that a page has permanently moved.

For example:

OLD:
example.com/2025/08/my-article.html

        ↓ 301 redirect

NEW:
example.com/my-article/

The goal should be to redirect an old article to its corresponding new article, not simply send everything to your homepage.

So:

Old Article A → New Article A

Old Article B → New Article B

Old Article C → New Article C

is much better than:

Old Article A → Homepage
Old Article B → Homepage
Old Article C → Homepage

Google specifically recommends redirects when moving pages and domains.

Step 11: What If You’re Changing the Domain?

This is common when moving from Blogger to a new website.

For example:

OLD:
oldsite.com

NEW:
newsite.com

Now you’re changing both the platform and the domain.

You should keep control of the old domain and set up redirects from the old URLs to the corresponding new URLs.

The basic idea is:

oldsite.com/old-article
             ↓
        301 redirect
             ↓
newsite.com/new-article

Don’t simply abandon the old domain if it has existing backlinks and search traffic.

Google treats a domain move as a significant change and recommends properly redirecting old URLs to their new locations.

Step 12: Connect Your Domain

Once your WordPress website has been fully tested, you can point your domain to your new WordPress hosting.

If you’re using the same domain, you’ll change its DNS settings so the domain points to your WordPress server.

If you’re moving to a new domain, make sure the new domain is properly configured before making the final switch.

Don’t rush this step.

Your WordPress website should already be working before you change the domain’s DNS.

Step 13: Check Your Website Before Launch

Before announcing that the migration is complete, test the important parts of your website.

Check:

• Homepage
• Articles
• Categories
• Search
• Images
• Navigation
• Contact page
• Mobile layout
• HTTPS
• Internal links
• 404 page
• Redirects

Also check several old article URLs.

For example:

Old URL → Redirect → New URL

If the redirect doesn’t work, fix it before the migration is considered finished.

Step 14: Submit Your Sitemap to Google

After your new WordPress website is live, connect it to Google Search Console.

WordPress SEO plugins can also help generate XML sitemaps.

Submit your sitemap in Google Search Console and monitor the website for indexing problems.

Pay particular attention to:

• 404 errors
• Redirect errors
• Pages not indexed
• Duplicate URLs
• Sitemap problems

Don’t expect Google to update every URL immediately.

A large migration can take time to settle.

Step 15: Don’t Delete Blogger Immediately

This is another important point.

After your WordPress website goes live, don’t immediately delete your old Blogger site.

First make sure:

New website works
        ↓
Articles are correct
        ↓
Images work
        ↓
Redirects work
        ↓
Domain works
        ↓
Google Search Console is configured

Only then should you consider what to do with the old Blogger site.

If the old domain is being used for redirects, you need to keep control of it.

What Happens to Your 1,000 Articles?

This is probably the biggest question people have.

You don’t need to create 1,000 WordPress pages.

After importing, WordPress stores the posts in its database.

Your theme then displays them using templates.

For example:

1,000 Blogger articles
        ↓
Imported into WordPress
        ↓
WordPress database
        ↓
single.php
        ↓
Article displayed

You might have:

Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
...
Article 1,000

but only one main article template:

single.php

WordPress automatically loads the correct article when someone visits its URL.

That’s one of the biggest advantages of WordPress.

What If You Want a Completely New Design?

That’s perfectly fine.

You can keep your old Blogger content while completely changing the design.

Think of it this way:

OLD BLOGGER
   │
   └── 1,000 articles
           ↓
       WordPress
           │
           ├── Your old content
           │
           └── New WordPress theme

Your content and your design are separate.

This means you can have your old articles with a completely modern website design.

How to Move an HTML Website to WordPress

If you don’t have Blogger and instead have a normal HTML website, the process is different.

Suppose your website looks like:

website/
├── index.html
├── about.html
├── contact.html
├── style.css
├── script.js
└── images/

You can convert this design into a WordPress theme.

The basic structure becomes:

my-theme/
├── style.css
├── functions.php
├── index.php
├── front-page.php
├── header.php
├── footer.php
├── single.php
└── page.php

Your HTML design becomes the theme, while WordPress manages your content.

For example:

<h1>My Article</h1>

can become:

<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

And:

<p>My article content...</p>

can become:

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<?php the_content(); ?>

Now you can publish articles through WordPress instead of editing HTML files.

If You Have Lots of HTML Articles

If your existing HTML website has hundreds of articles, don’t manually copy them unless there are only a few.

You can create a migration process that extracts information such as:

Title
Content
Date
Category
Author
Images

and imports it into WordPress as posts.

That can be automated depending on how your existing HTML files are structured.

Blogger or HTML: Which Should You Move First?

If you’re deciding what to write about or what migration you want to perform, Blogger → WordPress is the simpler topic for most beginners.

The process is easy to explain:

Blogger
 ↓
Backup
 ↓
Export
 ↓
Install WordPress
 ↓
Import
 ↓
Check posts
 ↓
Set redirects
 ↓
Launch

HTML → WordPress is more about converting a design into a theme, while Blogger → WordPress is mainly about moving existing content into WordPress.

If you have a Blogger website with hundreds or thousands of articles, the Blogger migration should be your first priority.

You can then use a new HTML design as the foundation for your WordPress theme.

Final Simple Picture

If you’re moving from Blogger to WordPress, remember these four things:

1. BACKUP
Blogger → Export XML

2. MOVE
XML → WordPress

3. DESIGN
New HTML design → WordPress Theme

4. REDIRECT
Old URLs → New URLs

That’s the basic process.

You don’t need to manually rewrite 1,000 articles, and you don’t need to create a separate HTML page for every article. WordPress stores your content in its database and uses templates to display it.

If you’re moving an established Blogger website, the most important part isn’t just importing the articles — it’s preserving your important URLs, images, pages and search traffic during the move. Google recommends using redirects for moved URLs and domain migrations, so plan that part before switching the site.