Why and how I changed my blog from Wordpress to Blogger.

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If you haven't got time to read my thoughts here's the link to the conversion tool to change your blog from wordpress.com to blogger.com  http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/

Unlike a lot of bloggers, I've decided to migrate my thoughts on teaching and education over to blogger.com from wordpress.com. I've been with wordpress for over two years and seen my blog grow reasonably big. So why change? There's more to lose than gain.

Why?

After a few weeks of blogger.com I feel a lot more comfortable with the format. I can edit my post with better fonts, the tabs at the top of the screen feel better and the range of wigits seems just as good, if not better than wordpress. But there's another, bigger reason why I decided to change and that comes down to one word 'ads'.

Ads

I also run a website called www.englishlanguagespacestation.com, it's not very pretty but it's where I house and share lots of worksheets for teaching and learning English. I run Google Adsense on some of the pages and make enough money to cover the cost of running the site. You can't put ads on wordpress and that didn't bother me until one day, I visited my wordpress site without logging on. At the bottom of the page I noticed an ad. It made me think. Why could wordpress put an ads and generate revenue, but I couldn't? Of course, wordpress run the site and so on and kindly allow me to use their services free but then again, so do Blogger.

How to do it.

I didn't have time to manually import all the posts from wordpress, so I googled around until I found a program that could do it for me and got some really helpful and clear instructions from http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/ 

So here I am.