Moving My Blog over

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  tropicanaemployment · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 6:10 pm

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  I am in my final stage of moving my blog from blogger to WordPress. I believe that I need my File Transfer protocol wordpress login credentials. I am under the understanding that these credentials were sent to me a long time ago when I set up my email, but I have long since lost that email. How can I get these credentials now so that I complete this transfer?

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  thatrobyn · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 7:03 pm

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  Hey there!

  Welcome :)

  We don’t allow FTP access to our servers at WordPress.com, but we do have a simple guide to move your site from Blogger to WordPress.com!

  Here it is:

  Import from Blogger

  Move through those steps, and should you need a hand, just drop me a line and tell me where you’re getting stuck.

  Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks very much.

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  tropicanaemployment · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 7:32 pm

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  I need to “upload” a file onto word press.

  How do I log on to wordpress through an FTP program?

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  thatrobyn · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 7:42 pm

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  Hi again,

  As I said, there is no FTP access to WordPress.com.

  You can import an XML file to your WordPress.com site using these instructions:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/

  Thanks.

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  tropicanaemployment · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 9:41 pm

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  Hi apologies, to clarify. i need to import the wpb_blogger.php file to redirect selected blog to select blog per instructions listed on the wordpress guidance website.

  This is the guidance:
  http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-switch-from-blogger-to-wordpress-without-losing-google-rankings/

  It asks:
  “Save your changes and upload this file to your WordPress theme directory using an FTP client. Once you have uploaded the file to your theme directory go to your WordPress admin area and create a new page in WordPress. In the title field for this page enter blogger. Under the Page Attributes section choose WPBeginner Blogger as template and click on the Publish button. “

  What is the hostname and credential information i need to log-on to wordpress with using an FTP client?

  Thank you again,

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  thatrobyn · Member · Mar 7, 2015 at 12:05 am

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  Hello again,

  Are you moving your site to WordPress.com? If so, you CANNOT move your content via FTP. You can only do that with an import as I mentioned.

  The quote you gave me is meant for WordPress.org sites — this means they are hosted on other servers. These are NOT applicable instructions for sites being moved to WordPress.com. If you are looking for instructions about how to achieve certain goals at WordPress.com, you must find them here:

  http://support.wordpress.com

  To move your site from a WordPress.org site to WordPress.com, please follow the steps in this guide:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-from-wordpress-org

  If you run into any issues, feel free to reply back, as we’d be happy to assist.