Can’t upgrade blog to personal
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I recently downgraded my blog from Pro after getting it for one year, and not I want to upgrade it to personal instead because I need the custom domain for Google AdSense. My Google AdSense ads don’t seem to be working anymore because my primary is no longer my custom domain and is my free domain instead, and I can’t calibrate to my current new free link because of the period punctuation in the link (it’s between com and wpc, http://thereadinglifeblogcom.wpcomstaging.com/). However, according to the reply here, it’s because :
“You need to upgrade to the WordPress.com Business plan or higher before you can connect your existing domain. That’s because the site previously had the WordPress.com Business plan which allowed features like third-party themes and plugins.
Those features are disabled right now, but the installed themes/plugins are still there on the site. So, to reactivate those and return the site to how it was before the Business plan expired, you’ll need to upgrade the site first.”
There is no way I am getting a business plan, this is my own personal hustle it does not make ANY financial sense at all. I do not need all of that and it’s so expensive for me. Is there a way for me to check and remove anything that is disabled and requires higher upgrades? I really don’t need them I just want the personal upgrade. If it really is no other option and I can only be forced to get business for some reason (which is honestly reasonable) at that point I will be forced to WordPress.org instead. But if I can I just want to spend some money for the personal upgrade instead to save me the time of finding hosting and doing the migration, all that stuff.
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I’m afraid the only way to use AdSense with a WordPress.com site is if it has a Business plan. There is WordAds but that needs a Premium plan. The Personal plan does remove the annoying ads seen on a free site but isn’t really designed for earning.
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Hey there,
I’ve reached out via email to further assist!
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Many thanks in advance!
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I want to ensure there isn’t an issue with migrating from the free plan wordpress.com to wordpress.org. Please I got EasyWP hosting but when I try to access the WordPress dashboard through that it still leads me to wordpress.com page dashboard instead of wordpress.org dashboard. can someone please help
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Hi there,
I merged your new thread in to this existing one to avoid confusion. I also see that a member of our staff replied to you recently via email regarding your question about ads.
It is always possible to migrate a WordPress.com site to another provider, you can follow our guide here: https://wordpress.com/support/export/
Please note that free sites (unlike sites on our Pro, Business, and Commerce plans) are not able to export your theme, plugins, or design settings. So you would need to set those up again on your new host. This can vary but sometimes is as easy as reactivating the same plugins and theme on your new host.
Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have any more questions.
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If I can ask, what is prompting your move? The Pro Plan you had on your account gave you the same powers as you would have on any .org site to upload themes and plugins, access source code via SFTP, etc. You would not gain any functionality by moving, for example.
I forgot to add that because your site is no longer on the Pro Plan, we would need to “revert” the site to remove all plugins, since free/Personal/Premium sites cannot cannot support plugins on the shared hosting resources they use. By upgrading to the Pro plan again (or the Business or Commerce plans) you would have more flexibility here in migrating since you could use a 3rd party migration plugin to assist you in moving a copy of the site.
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I want to move because I want to be able to put Google Adsense onto my blog. However I am willing to switch to premium instead though I don’t know how to revert my blog enough so that I am get premium instead. So I really need help with that. The person who reached out to me on email hasn’t replied to me yet so I don’t know what to do
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Hi again,
I want to move because I want to be able to put Google Adsense onto my blog.
Sorry that we did not know this sooner. You have had this option available to you from the time you upgraded to your Pro Plan. It’s not possible to install AdSense now however, since that requires that the plan be active on your site again.
However I am willing to switch to premium instead though I don’t know how to revert my blog enough so that I am get premium instead. So I really need help with that.
Yes we can help with this, but I do want to clarify that the Premium plan does not have the option to use plugins, so any plugins you had on the site previously would be lost. Here is a list I was able to find of all the plugins you had active at the time the plan expired:
- Advanced Heading️
- Advanced Post Block
- Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget
- ️Color Palette
- Donation Block for Stripe by Give
- GTM4WP
- Site Kit by Google
- ️Gosign – Text with Image Block
- ️Highlighting Code Block
- New Posts Block
- ️Post Types Order
- ️Typing Text
- ️VK Filter Search
- ️Smush
You are sure that you will not need this functionality going forward? The Premium plan will allow you to enable WordAds on your site (as mentioned in the email you referenced) but it would mean that you will lose the use of those plugins.
Also please note that we cannot predict what changes will occur on your site when it is reverted and all plugins are forcibly removed. This can lead to lost content, especially if that content depended on a plugin to function correctly.
You are sure that you wish to proceed with downgrading, or do you wish to consider reactivating the Pro Plan on your site so you can configure AdSense instead?
Let us know how you would like to proceed or if you have any questions. Thanks!
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