move your blog to wordpress at blogher '13
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Move Your Blog to WordPress
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Move Your Blog to WordPress
KELLY PHILLIPSBoost Interactive Media, @kellyphillipsnc
INSTRUCTOR
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I’m ready to move my blog to WordPress!
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I’m thinking aboutmoving my blog to WordPress!
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What’sWordPress?
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vsControl
Simplicity
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What can you control?
MonetizationUse of your contentSEOThemes & FeaturesAccess and backups
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Content Ownership
Disclaimer: Kelly is not a legal professional! If you are concerned, please seek legal counsel.
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Most Site Builders
FreeEasy to useLimited CustomizationsChained to TOS
- Content ownership
WordPress.org
Pay for hosting & domainMore complicated to useUnlimited CustomizationsYou own your site
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Six Steps to Move to WordPress
Step 1: Get a Domain Name & Hosting AccountStep 2: Install and Set Up WordPressStep 3: Import Your BlogStep 4: Redirect Your Domain and TrafficStep 5: Redirect Your Friends and FeedsStep 6: Clean Up Your Links
Step 1: Get a Domain Name & Hosting Account
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Step 1a: Domain Name
• Yearly Fee• Usually comes free with a
hosting account• Can repoint your existing
custom domain to your WP site
• Can use the free one to develop your site while your original blog is still active
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Step 1b: Hosting Account
• Stores your website on their servers
• Custom email• Domain Management• Virus protection• Technical support• Free domain name with
purchase
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Tech Tip
If you already have a custom domain for your original blog, use the free domain that comes with your hosting account to build your new WordPress site. When your new site is ready, redirect your original blog domain to the new site.
www.yourdomain.com
Step 2: Install and Set Up WordPress
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Step 2a: Install WordPress
• Use the 1-click install from your host• Do not keep “admin” as a username
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Step 2b: Setup Users
If you are the only user, you did this during setup and you can skip this step
If you have multiple users, do this prior to import.
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Step 2c: Set the Permalinks
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Step 2c: Set the Permalinks
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Determine Your Prior Permalink Structure
You had a custom domain:
You had a blogspot domain:
You had a WordPress.com domain:
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Step 2c: Set the Permalinks
http://rosebriargarden.biz/?p=123/
http://rosebriargarden.biz/2013/06/sample-post/
http://rosebriargarden.biz/2013/06/16/sample-post/
http://rosebriargarden.biz/archives/123/
http://rosebriargarden.biz/sample-post/
http://rosebriargarden.biz/sample-post/
Step 3: Import Your Blog
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Step 3a: Import Your Blog (Blogger)
Tools>Import
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Step 3a: Import Your Blog (Blogger) Click Install Now Activate and Run the importer It connects to your Google account
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Step 3a: Import Your Blog (Blogger)
Choose which blog to import Set Authors
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Step 3a: Import Your Blog (Blogger)
Set Authors
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Step 3a: Import Your Blog (Blogger)
Set Authors
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Step 3b: Moving Your Images from Blogger Your images are still on the Blogger server. To check, right click
on a post image and choose View Image.
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Step 3b: Moving Your Images from Blogger
Plugins>Add New>Search
Install the Blogger Image Import
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Step 3b: Moving Your Images from Blogger
Tools>Blogger Image Import
Max Imports: 100
Click Start Import
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Step 3c: Choose a Theme & Customize
If WordPress were the body,
the theme would be the clothes it wears.
Step 4: Redirect Your Domain and Traffic
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Step 4a: Redirect Your Domain
Domain & Hosting at same company = call and ask for their help
Domain at a different company from hosting1.Call hosting company and ask for the nameservers2.Call domain company and ask them to redirect your
nameservers to the hosting company
* The new domain might switch instantly, but could take up to 48 hours to resolve for everyone.
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Step 4a: Redirect Your Domain
Settings>General
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What is a Site Redirect?
301Redire
ct
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Step 4b: Redirect the Blogger URL to the WP URL
This step allows you to: Capture all of the page rank and SEO you’ve built up with your
blog and pass it on to the new location. Ensure that nobody lands on your old blog my mistake by
making it inaccessible Tells Google you’ve moved so you don’t get penalized for
double content.
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Step 4b: Redirect the Blogger URL to the WP URL
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Step 4b:Redirect the Blogger URL to the WP URL
Site root>wp-content>themes>your theme
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Step 4b:Redirect the Blogger URL to the WP URL
Create a new page (Pages>Add New) Name it Blogger Choose the Blogger template Publish the page
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Step 4b:Redirect the Blogger URL to the WP URL
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Step 4b:Redirect the Blogger URL to the WP URL
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Tech Tip
Create some buzz around your site redesign. Your last blog post before pulling the trigger should be an announcement of your move. Blast it on social media to drive people toward your new site. It will also give your regular readers some confidence in case they hit that window where the new site isn’t resolving
Publicize, Publicize, Publicize!
Step 5: Redirect your Feeds
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Step 5: Redirect your Feeds and Friends
Blogger > Settings >Other> Site Feed > Custom Feed
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Tech Tip
With Google Reader officially retired, people are looking for a replacement reader. Make sure your Feeds are updated and add your blog to the more popular reader databases so you can be found.
Step 6: Clean up Your Links
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Step 6a: Clean Up Your Hard Coded Links
Plugins>Add New>Search
Install the Search and Replace plugin
Tools>Search and Replace
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Step 6b: Redirect Pages
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Step 6b: Redirect Pages
Plugins>Add New>Search
Install the Redirects plugin
Settings>Redirect
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Six Steps to Move to WordPress
Step 1: Get a Domain Name & Hosting AccountStep 2: Install and Set Up WordPressStep 3: Import Your BlogStep 4: Redirect Your Domain and TrafficStep 5: Redirect Your Friends and FeedsStep 6: Clean Up Your Links
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You Did It!
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Move Your Blog to WordPress
KELLY PHILLIPSBoost Interactive Media, @kellyphillipsnc
INSTRUCTOR
“BlogHer is a snake meal of
ideas in a wonton wrapper of
love. Afterwards you need a 2-
day nap, then it nourishes you
for a year.”– @debontherocks