Tutorials for Setting Up WordPress Self Hosted With Host Gator | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

Jacob & Andrea, it is quite simple if you look beyond all the technical terms. I have a few blogs in Hostgator, Jacob, feel free to ping me on google talk if you run across any problems.

Jacob, You can add more domains by

1) Register your domains else where like godaddy or you can do this with Hostgator itself, I just like to have all my domains in a separate place incase I have to move to different hosting my domain names are not stuck with Hostgator, but you can register with HG, it is not a big problem. You can register by typing the name you want on the top right textfield and clicking "register"

2) Go to "Addon domains" this would be under "Domains" section around the later part of the cPanel window. Your domain will be created. (but won't work for now)

3) You have to install wordpress. You can do it by uploading it via ftp (thats what I did) or if you want the easy route install it via Fantastico, that would be under software section. Click on that, choose your newly created domain from the menu (if you have more than one) and install. Wordpress is ready.

4) If you purchased your domains via hostgator you will have to login to domain control panel (you would have got he link in the welcome email in case you didn't have the login details) and change the name servers. Again the name servers you can find in the welcome email from hostgator when you chose the plan. If you bought the domains from other service, go there and enter this name servers.

5) You should be able to login to yourdomain.com/wp-admin you can change your theme, plugin… whatever here. 

6) From your wordpress.com click on the tools (left sidebar) and export the posts, tags, title, description, etc and from your yourdomain.com/wp-admin, click on tools and import the file, your posts from wordpress.com will now be in self hosted site.

Thats pretty much it.

Switching my site over was an absolute disaster, but it's finally all moved.

Godaddy wasn't playing nice with HostGator at all – I had to call support (Godaddy) and they got rather snippy about me hosting my site with a different registrar. So I got pissed off and decided to transfer my domain to HostGator. Which rendered my site completely invisible until about 4 this morning.

Got it back and couldn't get Wordpress loaded for the life of me. Finally realized my nameservers were set incorrectly, so got those fixed and finally had access again! I went through probably 60 themes before I found one that let me (for the most part) recreate what I had on Blogger without a lot of coding.

Several times throughout the night, I loathed Wordpress with all my being and wondered why ANYONE would want to switch. Now I go to my little dashboard and add/change stuff and it's SO easy! I can now say I'm glad I switched.

Post edited 5:03 pm – July 10, 2011 by sooverdebt

I imported everything from Blogger, then changed the Permalink settings to Day and Name (second option) to try to match Blogger's format. I used two plugins, Blogger Importer and SEO Blogger to Wordpress using 301 Redirection, that were supposed to help the process. I honestly don't know if either of them did anything; I just know that all the posts seem to have made it with no major issues.

One thing I had to change manually is the links within posts to other posts of mine. For some reason all of them were formatted incorrectly. Likewise with any post where I used the "Read More" page break thing in Blogger. I had to remove "Read More" in the WordPress editor, insert the WordPress page break thing, and copy and paste the rest of the post from Blogger. Luckily I didn't start doing much of that until May or so!

Other than that, it looks like I'm completely finished with Blogger. I reverted all my posts there to draft, except a new post where I tell people to come to the new URL. I think there are still some sites out there linking to the Blogger URL so I'm hoping to catch them.

How's it going on your end? You're smart to ask questions first instead of diving in headfirst like I did!

There's always the option of paying someone to migrate everything over…. Of course I'm much too cheap and stubborn for that, plus I only had about 75 posts to deal with. I am exhausted but pleased with the end result. And I can already tell my traffic is boosted (# of pageviews is at 153 in the last 3 hours, when normally it would be like 80 at this time on a Sunday), though Analytics can't give me any details yet.