Bye, bye Blogger. Howdy WordPress

Finally moved my blog to WordPress from Blogger. I also moved it to a different URL as well. Move was as smooth as it could get. I wasn’t sure whether I should make the move. I didn’t want any Google juice to be lost or give my readers 404s. In my old setup I was using Feedburner to serve my feeds and Blogger to serve my blog. Now WordPress serves the blog and Feedburner still serves the feeds. Here you have the steps.

1. Install WordPress (I used 2.6.3)
2. Import the blog posts and comments from Blogger. Go to Manage -> Import in WordPress and follow the instructions there.
3. Set the authors properly.
4. Download and install the WordPress plugin wp-maintain-blogger-permalinks-1.0.zip. (Do not forget to enable the plugin as well)
5. Under Manage > Maintain Blogger Permalinks click the button that says Maintain Blogger Permalinks.
6. You can disable (or even delete) the wp-maintain-blogger-permalinks plugin.
7. Go to Options > Permalinks, select Custom, and enter the following:

   /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

…and you are done 🙂 .
Hope this helps someone who wants to move to WordPress form blogger.