Move to WordPress.com, and We’ll Handle the Migration for Free

For a limited time, we’ll move your existing WordPress site from any host to WordPress.com for free. 

August 13, 2024

Jeremy Anderberg

If your WordPress website is hosted somewhere other than WordPress.com, we’d love for you to ask one simple question: Why? 

Maybe you started there because of a stellar pricing deal on hosting and just stayed put for years. Maybe their offering was cutting-edge at one time, but now it seems outdated. Are all those paid add-ons starting to look a little bloated? 

The WordPress.com of 2024 is vastly reimagined from what you may have encountered a couple of years ago. Our SEO tools, security features, unlimited bandwidth, and developer tools are world-class and built right in at no extra cost. 

And for a limited time, we’ll move your existing WordPress site from any host to WordPress.com for free. 

Let us do the work for you. We’re here to help and ensure that you’re getting the very best WordPress experience out of the box. 

Move your site

How it works

The migration process takes only a few minutes, with no downtime involved. (Read those last four words again, because they’re very important!) Once your site is migrated, you’ll connect the domain and your site will be ready to go. Here’s how it works:

  1. Head to WordPress.com/move and enter the URL of the WordPress site to migrate.
  2. Select the option to create a new site, or select the existing WordPress.com site where you’ll move the old site to. 
  3. Select “Migrate site” to move all of your site’s content, themes, plugins, users, and customizations. (This selection requires our Business plan. More on that below.)
  4. Select “Do it for me” to get our team to review and handle your migration for you. Again, this option is 100% free for a limited time. 

Why move to WordPress.com?

Migrating to WordPress.com enhances your entire online presence with better security, improved performance, unlimited visitors and bandwidth, and reliable support. Here are some of the benefits:

  • Rock solid reliability: With a 99.999% uptime guarantee, your site will always be available, fostering more trust, sales, and peace of mind.
  • Blazing fast performance: Our 28+ location CDN ensures your site loads at lightning speed, leading to happier users and higher conversion rates. Plus, WordPress.com is the top WordPress hosting provider per Google’s Core Web Vitals.
  • Top-tier security: Our advanced protection measures keep your site safe from hacks and DDoS attacks, protecting both your business and your customers.
  • Always up-to-date: You’ll always have the latest WordPress, PHP, and plugins, complete with new features and security updates.
  • Complete control and customization: Use our extensive library of themes and design customization options to create a site that truly reflects your brand.
  • Scalability and support: Ready to grow? We’ve got your back with advanced scaling to handle traffic spikes at no added cost. Plus, our managed hosting means we take care of updates and maintenance, allowing you to focus on what you love.

Get all of this and more by choosing the hosting platform built from the ground up by WordPress Core’s biggest contributors: WordPress.com.

The best place to WordPress

Our Business plan supercharges your WordPress website with plugins, third-party (or custom) themes, and everything else you need to host a professional website:

  • Plugins: Access over 50,000 plugins or upload/build your own.
  • Third-party themes: Upload any WordPress theme or custom design.
  • SEO tools: Access advanced SEO options and install plugins like Yoast Premium.
  • Custom code: Add custom JavaScript, iframe, and header code for services like Google Adsense and Mailchimp.
  • Backups: Ensure site safety with daily backups and easy one-click restorations.
  • Uninterrupted performance: Improve user experience and load times with our multi-data center support, real-time replication, and global caching.
  • Enhanced security: Use Jetpack Scan for malware and security threats.
  • Advanced developer features: Use the development tools you know, love, and rely on like staging sites, WP-CLI, GitHub deployments, SFTP/SSH, database access, PHP version switching, and more.

How do those features translate to a better experience for you? Here’s what Michael P. had to say about the experience of migrating to WordPress.com::

“After migrating to WordPress.com our site is faster, easier to use, more secure, and technical support is nearly instant. The level of competency and understanding is a far cry from GoDaddy’s WordPress offering. It was a relief to work with a company that really knows how to manage WordPress!”

Want to migrate three (or more) sites?

For those of you who are managing multiple sites for others, our new Automattic for Agencies program may be a good fit for you. 

Through Automattic for Agencies, you can access agency pricing, referral earnings, premier support, and cutting‑edge tooling like WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and more. Joining is free, and signing up today will grant you early access and provide you the opportunity to shape the program.

Make the move

Being part of Automattic, the primary driver of the WordPress project, we are a uniquely positioned host to the core software development. Our commitment to the open-source community is unparalleled, with substantial engineering time and expertise dedicated to enhancing WordPress. As a WordPress.com customer, you directly benefit from this relationship through exceptional reliability, early access to innovative features, and support from the most skilled systems team in the industry.

Move your site to WordPress.com today, for free.

Move your site

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  1. reijosfood Aug 13th at 6:02 pm

    How do I know where my site is?

    Liked by 1 person

  2. Greg Aug 13th at 8:14 pm

    I am sure my site is hosted now on WordPress.com but how can I be sure?

    Liked by 2 people

  3. cordobamonamour Aug 13th at 8:34 pm

    how much?

    Liked by 1 person

  4. lajeunehollis Aug 13th at 9:13 pm

    I have a one year contract with Hostgator and a 5 year contract with register.com – which one do I need to cancel to take advantage of this great offer?

    Liked by 1 person

    • Bohdan Kit Aug 14th at 2:27 pm

      Hostgator provides hosting services, while Register.com offers domain registration for your website address. To migrate your site to WordPress.com, you need to transfer your site from HostGator to WordPress.com and cancel your plan with HostGator.

      You can also transfer your domain name to us if you wish to manage everything in one place. But it’s not required to migrate your site.

      Liked by 1 person

  5. cockatoocockatoo Aug 14th at 1:50 am

    Hi,

    Do you have pricing, i.e. annual, discounts for multi year?

    Thanks,
    Mary

    Liked by 1 person

    • Bohdan Kit Aug 14th at 2:24 pm

      Yes, the discount will applied to your first billing period. For example, if you subscribe to a 2-year plan, you’ll get 50% off on the first two years.

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  6. Jones, Roces, Sibayan Aug 14th at 3:26 am

    Hi,

    I have a free site with WordPress but I have another site with Weebly a pro site, does this mean I can migrate this to WordPress.com?

    Thanks, Judy

    Liked by 1 person

    • Bohdan Kit Aug 14th at 2:30 pm

      Hi Judy, you are correct. Simply enter your website’s URL at wordpress.com/move, log in to your account, and follow the instructions. Our Happiness Engineers will be available to assist you along the way or migrate the site for you.

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  7. Fandango Aug 14th at 5:37 am

    If I have an existing WordPress.com site and want to create a new site on WordPress.com, will you offer to manage that migration for me by moving all of my posts, my pages, my media, my comments, etc. from my old WordPress blog to my new one?

    Liked by 1 person

    • Bohdan Kit Aug 14th at 2:35 pm

      This offer is available for site migrations from other WordPress hosting providers to WordPress.com. But you can copy your site or change the theme on existing one if that’s what you are looking to do.

      Liked by 1 person

      • Fandango Aug 14th at 3:48 pm

        Thanks. I have a Premium plan, not a Business plan, so the “copy your site” option is not available to me. My WordPress.com blog has been hijacked by some bad actor who is replicating it in its entirety on a handful of bogus “news roundup” sites and I am looking for a way to copy my existing site to a new site (different URL) so that it won’t be pirated (as my current site is) and I was hoping to get some help from WordPress to do this. But I’m a retiree and can’t afford (and have no need for) the Business plan. But thanks for getting back to me.

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  8. Candy Blackham Aug 14th at 8:35 am

    I have a site on wordpress.org – why would I want to change to wordpress.com?

    Liked by 5 people

    • Bohdan Kit Aug 14th at 2:44 pm

      It depends who is the hosting provider for your wordpress.org site? Here are five reasons to migrate to WordPress.com:

      1. Get 50% off our Business plan for a year—$150 in savings on the fastest WP host.
      2. Enjoy unmetered bandwidth, traffic, and visitors. Unlike other hosts, we won’t charge you more when your site gets a traffic spike.
      3. With high-frequency CPUs and a global CDN in 28+ locations, your site stays lightning-fast worldwide. No limits, no surprise fees, just reliable, unparalleled speed.
      4. Real-time backups, one-click restores, and hassle-free SSL. We handle the tough stuff so you can focus on your site. Count on 24/7 security and expert support.
      5. Move your site to WordPress.com in minutes with our intuitive tools and 24/7 support—no cost, no hassle.

      Liked by 3 people

    • huzaifahnduga95 Aug 19th at 2:24 pm

      to have more expereince in building sites

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  9. gonzalomarie Aug 14th at 12:57 pm

    Am I allowed to ask you questions here? Will you answer? What is Cloudflare? Why do I have to pay Google WoprkSpace 20$ (or so about) every month? Do I need it? We would like to renew our site, make it more attractive. Who can I consult about it? Many thanks for who answers these questions. Marie La Palme Reyes

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  10. Chef Brendan, @recipeslive Aug 14th at 8:47 pm

    What about the 2 1/2 years hosting I have already paid for?

    Liked by 1 person

  11. Sebastián Aug 15th at 3:08 pm

    Kind of out of topic but what’s the site theme that appears in the header of this article?

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  12. sawland13 Aug 16th at 5:21 pm

    I’m on wordpress.com I would like if it started new blogs with black letters instead of gray

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  13. CrazyHobbyist Aug 20th at 2:09 am

    Is there a way for your self hosted WP articles to appear in wordpress.com without this migration?

    Liked by 4 people

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