.com – .org cannot be transferred on my blog???

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  wherethestyledthingsareblog · Member · Jan 6, 2014 at 1:28 pm

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  WordPress – you are doing my head in! I want google analytics so I read that changing from .com to .org will work. So…I think excellent i’ll purchase the guided transfer only to find that my blog cannot be transferred? WHY!? Why is this sooo hard :( I need help but I can’t e-mail you or call….someone please help, I need google analytics and I am not an IT girl…I write blog posts, I shoot photography, I style…I do not know IT.

  Help :(

  Thanks – Adelle

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

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jan 6, 2014 at 9:27 pm

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  Did you read what’s stated here?
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/
  If not please do so now. Did you receive an email from Staff stating your blog could not be transferred? If so then I suggest that you respond to the email you have received from Staff. If not then why do you state this ” only to find that my blog cannot be transferred?”

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  wherethestyledthingsareblog · Member · Jan 6, 2014 at 10:09 pm

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  Yes I’ve read so many things in the forums and can’t find a solution. I posted on my personal Facebook and people are saying it might be because I have a domain with wordpress so it can’t be transferred? Which is a bit silly…I’m nt a technical genius so I’ll have to pay someone to work out a new domain and transfer that over before I can move across. My head hurts!!

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jan 6, 2014 at 10:17 pm

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  I suggest you read this section again.

  I purchased a premium theme at WordPress.com. Will it be transferred?
  Premium themes purchased at WordPress.com are only valid here at WordPress.com. http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/#frequently-asked-questions

  Forever is a theme that is designed to run on free hosted WordPress.com blogs only. It is adapted from the Colorway them which runs on WordPress.ORG installs. That’s stated here > http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/forever/

  So on the WordPress.ORG install the Colorway theme http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/colorway must be installed and then the CSS editing which is theme specific editing needs to be re-done.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jan 6, 2014 at 10:20 pm

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  . I posted on my personal Facebook and people are saying it might be because I have a domain with wordpress so it can’t be transferred?

  That’s HOGWASH. You own your domain and you can move it be re-pointing the nameservers.

  Here’s a brief summary of how to move to wordpress.org that you can read while waiting for Staff to replay here.
  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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  wherethestyledthingsareblog · Member · Jan 6, 2014 at 11:40 pm

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  Thanks for your help, unfortunately I am IT incompetent and all of this is like a foreign language to me, I just need someone to take over the blog and do it all for me, I am obviously out of my depth :(

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jan 6, 2014 at 11:43 pm

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  Staff will respond to this thread after they respond to all threads tagged for their attention with earlier datestamps and time stamps than this one.

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  wherethestyledthingsareblog · Member · Jan 6, 2014 at 11:51 pm

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  Thank you so much for your time :)

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jan 6, 2014 at 11:55 pm

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  You’re welcome. It’s best if we don’t post to this thread again and you just wait for Staff because every time we post into the thread the timestamp moves forward.

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  kardotim · Member · Jan 8, 2014 at 9:16 am

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  If you’d like assistance moving your WordPress.com site to WordPress.org, we have a service called Guided Transfer that does all the work for you. Check it out to see if it’s right for you:

  http://store.wordpress.com/premium-upgrades/guided-transfer/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/

  Alternatively, this guide will step you through the process of moving your site to a WordPress.org instance:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org

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  wherethestyledthingsareblog · Member · Jan 14, 2014 at 7:02 am

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  Hi Guys – the guided transfer wouldn’t work for me, it was blanked out when I tried to purchase it, I had to physically go to someone’s business, and I paid them to do everything, we are in the process now – thanks.

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  kardotim · Member · Jan 14, 2014 at 8:24 am

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  I’m sorry it didn’t work out for you, but I’m glad you’ve found a solution. Please let us know if you need any further assistance!