Can I transfer my wordpress.org site to wordpress.com?

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  lverstraete · Member · Jan 21, 2019 at 1:10 pm

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  Can I do this? How?

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  ratneshsonar · Member · Jan 21, 2019 at 2:17 pm

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  Hi there

  Yes, you can transfer your existing WordPress.Org site to WordPress.com.
  Here are a few steps you need to follow.

  1. Create a WordPress.com site
  2. Migrate Contents from existing WP.Org site to WP.com website
  3. Upgrade to a Paid plan
  4. Map or Transfer your Existing Domain name

  1. Create a WordPress.com site

  Head over to WordPress.com/start to create a WordPress.com site.

  Skip this step if you already have a WordPress.com site.

  2. Migrate Contents from existing WP.Org site to WP.com website

  The first thing you need to do is migrate your content (Page, Post, Images) to WordPress.com Blog.

  Here are the instructions you need:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/view-all/

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/coming-from-self-hosted/

  Import a Website

  Once your contents get imported to WordPress.com Blog, then you can proceed to upgrade to a paid plan.

  3. Upgrading to a Paid plan

  Paid plans provide extra features to your site like Custom Domain name, Themes, Live Chat Support & Email Support.

  You can compare our all plans here and select one which is best for you.

  https://wordpress.com/plans

  For more details regarding plan features, please refer to this support document.

  Choose a WordPress.com Plan

  After upgrading your plan, you can transfer your domain to WordPress.com.

  4. Map or Transfer your Existing Domain name

  Once you have upgraded to a paid plan, you get few domain credits using which you can either buy a new domain, Transfer your domain to WP.com or Map your domain to WP.com.

  • Transfering Domain

  • Here your domain registration, billing and renewal will be moved from your current domain provider to WordPress.com. This will help you to manage future billing, renewal and transfer of your domain from WordPress.com itself
• Mapping your Existing domain
• Here your domain registration will stay with your current provider, and you’ll point the domain to WordPress.com instead.

All the steps for transferring your domain to WordPress.com are explained here.

https://en.support.wordpress.com/incoming-domain-transfer/#transferring-a-domain-to-wordpress-com

You can read more about the refund process here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

Hope this helps!

Thanks!
Cheers!