complications of moving to wordpress.org
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I am looking to move from wordpress.com to wordpress.org. I understand the basic instructions of exporting, importing, and purchasing a redirect upgrade to redirect traffic automatically. I would like to get some clarification on the best order to do things in, so that I minimize downtime and don’t destroy anything.
More info:
Current blog: digitaldailydose.wordpress.com
Paid upgrade to map to website subdomain of blog.laurashoe.com, with CNAME added on my website to point this back to digitaldailydose.wordpress.com.New goal: using wordpress.org software, content lives at blog.laurashoe.com.
So the question is, is this the best order to minimize disruption and not break anything?
1. Remove the CNAME and wordpress mapping to blog.laurashoe.com (at which time no one looking for the blog at this address will find it)
2. Install wordpress at blog.laurashoe.com
3. Import content
4. Pay for wordpress.com redirect digitaldailydose.wordpress.com to blog.laurashoe.comThank you for any light you can shed on this!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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That is pretty much it and the order will work fine. Since you already have the domain mapping upgrade, I would ask staff if they would be willing to change that over and into a redirect upgrade for you. If not, there is a trick that can be used with the domain mapping upgrade to do the same thing although it is a little more complex.
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Thank you, thesacredpath!
All went fine (after blowing up the new site once, but that was my fault). I now can’t figure out what to do to enable content readers like Google Reader to automatically redirect. Is this possible? I’d hate to lose my audience. I thought this was automatic.
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No, your subscribers will have to subscribe to the new blog if they subscribed to whatever.wordpress.com/feed instead of a custom domain like whatever.com/feed.
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