Bloggers have a variety of reasons to migrate from one system to WordPress:
✦ Curiosity: There is a lot of buzz around the use of WordPress and the
whole community of WordPress users. People are naturally curious to
check out something that all the cool kids are doing.
✦ More control of your blog: This reason applies particularly to those
who have a blog on Blogspot, TypePad, or any other hosted service.
Hosted programs limit what you can do, create, and mess with. When
it comes to plugins, add-ons, and theme creation, hosting a WordPress
blog on your own Web server wins hands down. Additionally, you have
complete control of your data, archives, and backup capability when
you host your blog on your own server.
✦ Ease of use: Many people find the WordPress interface easier to use,
more understandable, and a great deal more user-friendly than many
of the other blogging platforms available today.
The hosted version of WordPress.com and the self-hosted version of
WordPress.org allow you to migrate your blog to their platforms; however, WordPress.com does not provide as many options for import as WordPress. org does. The following is a list of blogging platforms that have built-in
importers, or import plugins, for migration to WordPress:
✦ Blogger
✦ Movable Type
✦ TypePad
✦ Vox
✦ Posterous
✦ TextPattern
✦ RSS Feeds
✦ GreyMatter
✦ DotClear
✦ Blogware
✦ WordPress.com
In the WordPress.org software (self-hosted), the importers are added to the
installation as plugins. The importer plugins included in the preceding list
are plugins packaged within the WordPress.org software or found by search-
ing in the Plugins Directory at http://wordpress.org/extend/
plugins/tags/importer. You can import content from several other
platforms by installing other plugins from the WordPress Plugins Directory,
but you may have to search a bit on Google to find them.
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