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1. Joe Lange
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi guys -

   I've read around on this specific topic but can't find my answer. Thanks in advance for your help.

   I have a blog on blogger with a custom domain. I am trying to transfer the entire blog to WP. I'd like to be able to transfer all the content from blogger to WP and tweak before I point the domain servers to my site's URL. I'd like to do all this without the site being live.

   If I install WP through FatCow (my host) to my custom domain http://www.mysite.com will it bring down my blogger site? My intuition says "NO!" but I am nervous.

   Is there another way to get my blog to WP, tweak it 100% to satisfaction, and then make it live without affecting the blogger site in the meantime?

   Clear as mud? :)

   Thanks!

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   install it in a test folder
   http://www.example.com/test

   when ready move it
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site
   or
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

3. Joe Lange
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks, as always, for your fast response. I really appreciate it.

   -Joe.

4. Joe Lange
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   @samboll

   My old blog is a Blogger with a custom domain (www.example.com) that I want to move to WordPress with the same custom domain (www.example.com) But Google is hosting it at the moment. I've purchased hosting from FatCow - but how do I set up the new site for WordPress and import content from Blogger on the custom domain? I can't install WP on http://www.example.com because Google is hosting it.

   Should I install WP on another domain like http://www.example.fatcow.com and then move it from there to http://www.example.com?

   Thanks again for your help.

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