All the Export Plugins
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Many years ago someone established a wordpress.com site — currently I’m in charge of migrating years and years of content to a WordPress install on another domain.
I need to export users from the wordpress.com site, but I can’t. The base exported package seems to have lost my menus.
There are lots of fancy import plugins, that are completely useless to me unless the export options exist.
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I have moved content back and forth between WordPress.com and WordPress.org sites using export/import. I have never used a plugin so I don’t understand why you think plugins are needed. The theme and text widget content cannot be exported. You simply export and import the posts and pages and then create a new menu.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org -
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Not every theme has a horizontal menu and WordPress.com and WordPress.org run different versions of themes with the same names.
For others looking for instruction for how to move content to a WordPress.ORG install, below is a brief summary of the steps to take.
WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate.
http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/1. Hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and purchase a domain if you don’t already have one. If you do have one see 4. (b) below.
2. Set up a WordPress.org install and equip it with a theme and plugins.
http://wordpress.org/themes/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/3. To move your content you need to create an XML export file of your content. It will not include the theme and widgets as they cannot be exported. Export your content out of your WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the install. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org
4. WordPress.com is the top level domain here and all blogs hosted by WordPress.com are on .wordpress.com sub-domains.
(a) If you do not have a domain mapping upgrade purchase a site redirect upgrade from wordpress.com
http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/(b) Or if you have domain mapping then see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/move-domain/#change-name-servers-to-point-the-domain-outside-of-wordpress-com and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/move-domain/
5. Transfer subscribers. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/
6. Set your wordpress.com blog visibility to private. To change blog visibility to private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
Alternatively you can purchase a Guided Transfer and Staff will do the move and set up for you http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/
WordPress.com and WordPress.org have different log-ins and run different versions of themes with same names. If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.
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These threads are shared resource threads and I’m sorry what I pasted above is not what you consider to be helpful.
There is no FTP access to WordPress.COM blogs and there is no blogger installed plugin capability. Yes we can request plugins but in this case there is a Guided Transfer upgrade so thinking Staff will deliver on this tequest is not likely to produce a positive response.
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