Migrate from WordPress.org

  • timstewartrt · Member ·

    Hello, I’m running a blog on WordPress.org but after seeing some features on WordPress.com I would like to migrate my site and whole data on WordPress.com but I don’t know how to do it, and is it safe for my website and wanna make sure if my rankings won’t hurt. Thanks!

  • divyaab · Member ·

    Hi @timstewartrt,

    Could you please provide the URL of the website which is currently using open source version of WordPress( WordPress.org), as the current blog https://allroutertables.com/ you have shared doesn’t seem to use the open source version of WordPress?

    In order to migrate the site content from WordPress.org to WordPress.com, please follow the below link for the same:-‘
    https://transferto.wordpress.com/self-hosted-wordpress-org/

    Please note, customers with the WordPress.com Business plan or higher can migrate all of their site’s content as well as plugins and custom themes.

    If you want to use your own domain, you’ll need to upgrade to one of our paid plans. Then you can either leave the domain registered with your registrar and point it here. Or you can transfer it to us completely if you prefer:
    https://wordpress.com/support/domain-connection-vs-domain-transfer/

    Hope this helps!

  • timstewartrt · Member ·

    Hi @divyaab
    My site is using WordPress, I don’t use any other CMS.

  • aisajib · Staff ·

    Hi there!

    I see that your site is indeed using the WordPress.org software. If you want to move it to WordPress.com, please follow the instructions here: https://wordpress.com/support/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/

    This will guide you through creating a new site and transferring content from your existing WordPress.org site to your new WordPress.com site.

    If you’d like to check out our different plans and pricing, you can see a comparison table here: https://wordpress.com/pricing

    Let us know if you have more questions about this.

    Regards

  • divyaab · Member ·

    Hi @aisajib,

    Out of curiosity, I would like to know how a volunteer can check whether the website is using the open source version of WordPress. As I checked the source code by viewing the page source for this website https://allroutertables.com/ and can’t find the version of WordPress or not even mentioning about it anywhere. Is there any way we can get the information?

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    @divyaab,

    The most common way is to do a Whois lookup of the domain. If the domain’s name servers are pointed to WordPress.com, the site is usually hosted here, and if not, it’s hosted somewhere else. That’s not always the case, though, as people can also point domains here using A records rather than name servers. (To find the exact host it’s often more effective to look up the domain’s IP address, and then do a Whois lookup for that IP.)

    On a WordPress.com site you’ll also see the WordPress.com admin bar at the top, and the action bar/follow button bottom-right. But on Business Plan sites you might not see this.

    Lastly, you can add /.well-known/hosting-provider to the end of the site’s URL in your browser address bar. It won’t show you the host in all cases, but it will always show if the site is hosted on WordPress.com.

    https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-com-volunteers/#tips-tricks-and-best-practices

  • divyaab · Member ·

    Thanks @kokkieh for the detailed information for determining whether the site is hosted on WordPress.com :)
    I usually check the Whois lookup of the domain for the hosting using these two websites and now I will consider those options also.
    Here, for this case, the OP shared a blog URL https://allroutertables.com/ which is pointed to Cloudflare nameserver, not to WordPress.com.
    https://gwhois.org/allroutertables.com+dns

    As @aisajib mentioned the website is using the WordPress.org software, so I would to know is there any other way a volunteer can determine that it is using WordPress.org software as hosted by another provider. I usually right-click and check the view page source to determine whether the website using the open source version of WordPress but for this blog, the view page source doesn’t contain any information about WordPress. Is there any other way to check as for this blog this didn’t work?

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    so I would to know is there any other way a volunteer can determine that it is using WordPress.org software as hosted by another provider.

    If it’s using WordPress but it’s not hosted on WordPress.com, it’s using the open source software.

    but for this blog, the view page source doesn’t contain any information about WordPress

    Yes, it does :)

    https://d.pr/i/VOeEIV

    The presence of both the wp-content and wp-includes directories indicate it’s using WordPress, and there’s also references to the Yoast SEO, GeneratePress, and WP Rocket plugins for WordPress.

    The information you usually look for is most likely also there, but it’s not easily visible – the site is using a minification plugin that strips out whitespace and line breaks in the code to reduce the overall filesize of the site that has to be downloaded in the browser, so instead of neatly structured HTML, it’s all in one continuous line that’s thousands of characters long. The browser still understands it perfectly, but it makes it harder for a human to parse the code and find the info you’re looking for.

  • divyaab · Member ·

    Thank you so much @kokkieh :)
    Now, I will check with this aspect also:)

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