How do I transfer subscribers and followers when I move my blog?

  • peaceofmymindparent · Member ·

    I’ve moved my blog (both are WordPress blogs) and can’t figure out how to transfer my subscribers and followers. Is there any way to do that?

    When I try to go back to the original blog and send one last post, it doesn’t seem to work.
    Blog url: http://durgastoolbox.wordpress.com/

  • chrisrudzki · Member ·

    Hi there,

    I’m afraid there really isn’t any way to transfer subscribers (followers) at this time.

    Your followers need to opt-in to receiving any email updates for a given site.

    Don’t hesitate to contact us again if you need anymore help. :-)

  • peaceofmymindparent · Member ·

    Is there any way I can alert them to the change? Short of weeding through old alerts from wordpress and individually contacting each one (which I think would make them feel creeped out), I can’t see a way of letting them know. Would you recommend unforwarding the old blog to the new and sending out one last post to the old blog subscribers?

    I have to say that I assumed that there would be a way to do this. Given that it’s so easy to transfer a blog to a different domain name and import all the contacts so easily, I wish that there had been a tip on how to alert my subscribers before transfering everything over. Although I’m the first to admit that maybe there was and I missed it.

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    If you still have access to the old blog, you could publish a post notifying them of the move.

    Otherwise, there’s really no other way.

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