I am thinking of changing my blog from blogspot to some other blog providers, and my friend suggested wordpress...

Just want to ask, does wordpress has any other advantages over blogspot besides having more themes? More importantly, can I transfer the entire contents of my current blogspot blog to wordpress, retaining all my previous posts, comments, etc?

not sure whether here's the right place to ask or not... if not mod kindly shift is to the appopriate thread.

thanks in advance

yes, you can transfer all your post from blogspot to wordpress. tried it before, very easy. comments i forgot whether can transfer or not.

And how do I transfer the older posts? Do I need any programs to do so, or just copy and paste the entire template html?

If possible I'd like to retain the same design and template as well...

i sensed that using wordpress, we can have unlimited pages..never seen any of blogger site have those.or am i just wrong?

actually, its automatic. after you register to wordpress, inside theres an option to transfer your blogspot posts to your new wordpress account. all you have to do is login using your blogspot user id and password, and it will do the rest.

template cannot tho, coz different system.

But, you can have more templates for you if you are using wordpress. somemore, you can edit it urself if u have some basic knowledge about it...