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Migrating your BigCommerce blog to DropInBlog

Read our step-by-step guide to learn how to move your BigCommerce blog to DropInBlog.

Step 1: Install the DropInBlog app

Before you migrate your blog from BigCommerce, you need to install the DropInBlog app. Follow the steps in this support doc to install it.

Step 2: Import your existing blog posts into your DropInBlog account

Your next step is to import the posts you created with the BigCommerce native blog.


Before you import your posts, you can delete the demo posts that each DropInBlog blog has by default. To do that, select the Apps tab from the menu on the left, then click DropInBlog, and open the Posts page.

Next, check the box in the top-left corner of the post list to select all of the posts, and then select Move To Trash from the Bulk Actions dropdown.

When you delete the demo posts, click the Import/Export tab from the admin panel of your DropInBlog app to import the posts from your BigCommerce blog.

On the Import/Export page, next to BigCommerce Blog Import, you’ll see the option to import blog posts from your BigCommerce blog and the number of posts you currently have on it.

Click the Import blog posts button, and once the process is done, you’ll see a message informing you that the import was successful.


Next, select Posts from the menu on the left and check if all your posts have been imported correctly.

To check your imported content on the live site, click the View Blog button in the top-right corner of your DropInBlog dashboard.

At this point, you’ll have two blogs – your old blog created on BigCommerce and the new blog you created with DropInBlog. Your next step is to hide your old BigCommerce blog from your store’s menu.

Before proceeding to Step 3, review your new DropInBlog blog. Make sure you’ve imported all your content from your old BigCommerce blog, and check the formatting. Once you’re happy with how your new blog looks and ready to officially migrate from BigCommerce to DropInBlog, move on to Step 3.


Step 3: Turn off visibility for your old BigCommerce blog

To hide the native BigCommerce blog from your store’s navigation, click the Storefront tab from the sidebar menu of your BigCommerce dashboard. Then select Blog and turn the toggle next to Blog visibility off.

Keep in mind that turning your blog’s visibility off doesn’t delete the blog posts you created with BigCommerce’s native blog. Your existing blog posts and their URLs are still accessible, so you may need to set up 301 redirects for them, which we’ll do in Step 7.

Step 4: Change the URL of your new DropInBlog blog

By default, BigCommerce blogs have a /blog handle. You can keep that handle by changing the default BigCommerce blog URL and assigning it to your new DropInBlog blog.


If you want your blog URL to end with /our-blog, you can skip this step.


To change the default blog URL, select the Storefront tab from your BigCommerce dashboard, then Blog.


Click on the three-dots menu to open the URL settings of the BigCommerce native blog.

On the following page, change the page title to anything other than “blog,” and the blog URL will be automatically populated to match the new title.


Once done, click the Save Settings button at the bottom right.
You have now freed up the /blog handle for your DropInBlog blog.


To set your DropInBlog URL handle to /blog, open the app using the BigCommerce left-side menu.


Click Apps, then DropInBlog, and select Settings from the menu on the left.
In the text box under Blog URL, change “/our-blog” to “/blog” and save your changes.

Next, select Channels from the menu on the left and click Web Pages.

You’ll see your DropInBlog blog page called Our Blog. Click on it to change its name and URL.

Change the page name to “Blog,” and the Page URL field will automatically match the new page name, i.e., /blog. Uncheck the box next to Redirect old URLs to this URL automatically, and click Save & Exit.

Step 5: Add your new blog to the navigation menu

To make your DropInBlog visible and have it show on your store’s navigation menu, go to Channels, then Web pages.

This will take you to your new blog page. Click the X sign on the right to make the page visible.

Doing so will automatically add your blog page to your store’s navigation menu.


If the page isn’t added to the navigation menu, click on the page name to open its settings.


Then, in the Navigation Menu Options section, check the box next to Yes, show this page on the navigation menu, and select No Parent Page under Parent Page. Save your changes by clicking the Save & Exit button in the bottom right.

If you want to keep the same URL structure of your BigCommerce posts, you need to enable the SEO Supercharger in your DropInBlog account.


Follow the steps in our two-part guide that will show you how to connect Cloudflare and generate your Cloudflare API token. There are some BigCommerce-specific Cloudflare settings as well.

Step 7: Create 301 redirects

If you connected your DropInBlog account with Cloudflare in the previous step and your DropInBlog blog uses the same slug as your old BigCommerce blog (e.g., /blog), you can skip this step.


The final step is to create 301 redirects that will take your visitors from your old BigCommerce posts to your new blog posts.


To do that, go to Apps, select DropInBlog, and click Import/Export.

In the BigCommerce Blog Import section, you’ll see the Create Redirects button. Click it to redirect your old BigCommerce posts to DropInBlog.

Confirm your choice in the pop-up window by clicking the Create Redirects button.

Next, you’ll see a success message informing you that the redirects have been created.

To check that the redirects have been created, click on the Settings tab in the left-hand side menu of your BigCommerce admin, then select 301 redirects from the Domain section.

Here, you can see a list of your old blog post URLs and the new ones – you should check if all of them have been redirected properly.

This is the last step of migrating your BigCommerce blog to DropInBlog.


If you have any questions, let us know.


Happy blogging!

Updated on: 30/10/2026