Blogger to WordPress Migration: Fixing Mobile Redirects

If you migrated from Blogger to WordPress and set up redirects from your old Blogger URLs to their new WordPress equivalents, you may find the redirects work fine on desktop but fail specifically on mobile browsers like Safari on iPhone.

Cause

Blogger serves a separate mobile template independently of your main template, and that mobile template can keep loading the old Blogger site directly instead of respecting your redirect, even after your main (desktop) template has been switched over correctly.

The Fix

1. Log back into Blogger and open your old blog.
2. Go to Theme (or Template, depending on your Blogger version).
3. Find the mobile template settings — there’s a small cog/gear icon specifically for the mobile template.
4. Click it and select the option to disable the separate mobile template.
5. Save your changes.

Once the mobile-specific template is disabled, mobile visitors fall through to the same template (and therefore the same redirect) as desktop visitors. Test by visiting your old Blogger URL directly on an iPhone or Android browser and confirming it now redirects to your new WordPress site correctly.

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