Moving from wp.com to wp.org

  • rservin77 · Member ·

    I am considering making the transition from wp.com to wp.org and I have a friend who is a contributor on my blog. When I make the switch, will he be able to continue blogging with me on my blog? Is there anything special I have to do?

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  • trent · Member ·

    When you export your blog, it will ask you to create him as an author and enter their details. It is pretty straight forward and once you move, you will find loads of support at the forums for .org downloads at http://wordpress.org/support/ and the Codex

  • ramkat · Member ·

    Hello people. Any help from anybody will be much appreciated. We would love to move our domain from wordpress.com to wordpress.org. Does any know how to do that? A step by step tutorial from anyone will be much appreciated. Again any help people:-)

  • husdal · Member ·

    @ramkat
    Do you have a domain-mapped blog at wordpress.com?
    The step-by-step tutorial depends on where you host your blog, but essentially: Export your blog from wordpress.com. Unmap the domain from your wordpress.com blog. Sign up with a new host e.g. bluehost or godaddy, and transfer the domain. Change the name servers. Do a wordpress install. Before importing your old blog, make sure you change the ‘permalink’ settings match those of your old blog. Import your blog, include file attachments. It should be ok now, but all image and file attachment links point to wordpress.com need to be edited one by one to point to their new location. That’s the basics, then you need to add all the plugins that you don’t see and that come automatically with wordpress.com, e.g. embedding videos, category clouds, etc. etc…..It is a time-consuming but ever so rewarding process, something best done on a rainy weekend when there’s nothing else to do.

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