Moving from wordpress.com blog to a self-hosted blog

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  hippy2981 · Member · Dec 22, 2006 at 8:50 pm

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  I already have a wordpress.com blog. Could anyone list or point me to the steps where I would be able to host it on any of my web-server (wordpress.org)?

  How do I backup my existing wordpress.com blog into a MySQL database?

  Please. Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Dec 22, 2006 at 9:28 pm

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  This will be helpful. It steps you through the whole exporting and importing process. The forum search box has an abundance of information on the topic too. :)

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  hippy2981 · Member · Dec 22, 2006 at 9:37 pm

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  Actually I found it already. Thanks though. Here is what I’d like to know though.

  The pages appear as separate posts. This is not a big problem since I don’t have many pages but still it would be for those who do.

  This is a big problem. Why are the categories (tags) not copied? In the xml (RSS) I see that there are a categories mentioned too. How do I do this? All the posts’ categories are lost and the categories table is empty too. Did the import did not happen correctly?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 22, 2006 at 9:47 pm

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  I’m recommending that you send a feedback into staff and get help there for your problems.

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  hippy2981 · Member · Dec 23, 2006 at 8:39 pm

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  I was initially confused between the com and org forums. I’ll do that. Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Dec 23, 2006 at 9:08 pm

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  You’re welcome. :)

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