wanting to move to wordpress

[Kody458]

Hello,

Thank you in advance for the help.

I'll just get to the point. About a year ago I started a Blogger blog, it began to get popular, so I purchased a custom domain to help it look more professional ( therationalchoice.net ). I am tired of the lack of customization and helpful widgets available for blogger so I would like to switch to something more powerful, such as Wordpress. Now here is where things get confusing for me. If I own my own domain why do I still have to log into blogger to access it? Is there any way at all that I can easily transfer my blog over to Wordpress and simply point my URL to that place instead of the current one? If so, how would I go about doing that?

I've tried looking online at similar questions but the answers are always WAY above my head and I end up not understanding half of the terms. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. : )

[ChickenFreak]

You can indeed move a Blogger blog to Wordpress, and your main URL will still work, though I don't know if you can preserve the internal links. However, if you feel that you're not very technical, you may need to hire someone to do this for you.

As for why you need to log into Blogger: As an analogy, imagine that you want to hire an answering service. You own a phone number and you have the right to forward your phone calls wherever you want, but unless somebody at the destination has agreed to handle your calls for you, that fact won't do you any good.

Similarly, you own the domain and you have the right to direct your blog readers anywhere you want, but unless someone at that network location has agreed to accept those readers and present your blog to them, that fact won't do you any good. Doing that - accepting traffic from your readers and showing them your blog, which they'll be storing on their servers- is called hosting your blog.

(This is a very imperfect analogy. Don't carry it any further than this, or it will fall apart.)

Right now, Blogger is hosting your blog. When people try to connect to your site, they connect to Blogger's servers, and they see your stuff. That's why you need to log in to Blogger to change your stuff.

You need someone to step in and do the same thing that Blogger's doing, but with Wordpress instead. You'll have to pay more fees for the hosting, because the fee that you paid for the domain was for pretty much nothing more than recording the fact that you own that domain.

[magicmummy]

I changed from Blogger to Wordpress and I'm so pleased that I did - it's much more professional looking now in my opinion!