changing from .wordpress.com to .com

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  tattooedteacherintexas · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 4:40 am

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  i want to move to a .com URL soon. i would like to know…

  will i lose my current followers?
  will people still be able to find me if they look up the .wordpress.com site?
  will my email subscribers still get my update emails?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 4:43 am

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  no
  yes
  yes

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 4:46 am

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  option 1 – purchase a domain mapping upgrade and have your blog continue to be hosted by wordpress.com

  In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from. If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog and purchase a domain name by purchasing an annually renewable domain mapping upgrade for the blog.

  See here if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades is where you do the primary blog set up knowing it can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.

  option 2 – move your blog content into a wordpress.org install

  Here is a brief summary of steps we take to move to WordPress.org
  WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate.
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  1. Hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/

  2. Set up a WordPress.org install and equip it with a theme and plugins.
  http://wordpress.org/themes/
  http://wordpress.org/plugins/

  3. Export your content out of your WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the install.

  4. Purchase a site redirect upgrade from wordpress.com
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ or if you have domain mapping then update the nameservers http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-management/

  5. Transfer subscribers and stats. 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/

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  tattooedteacherintexas · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 4:54 am

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  thank you so much!!!

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 4:55 am

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  You’re welcome. :)