Configuring WordPress Web Host

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  nollieheel · Member · Feb 24, 2014 at 12:33 am

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  I recently decided to move my webpage from wordpress.com to a separate host, since I wanted to customize my page more (ie have access to all the code I want, instead of just CSS).

  I set up an account with the web host, clicked the button that integrates wordpress with my account, saw that the wp files needed to be on the server are there.

  How can I tell everything is configured correctly? (for example, I see that the wp-config.php file already has my UN , PW, etc. included in it).

  Kind of at a crossroads here, since its hard to tell what’s necessary to do yet, and what can be left as is. Once I have this checklist of sorts, then I can begin the issues of actual site construction.

  Help!
  Heaps o’ Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 24, 2014 at 12:37 am

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  Hi there,
  Here’s a brief summary of what moving to WordPress.org involves.
  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/

  WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate, have different log-ins and run different versions of themes with same names. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  We provide support only for free hosted WordPress.COM blogs and not for WordPress.org software installs. If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.

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  nollieheel · Member · Feb 24, 2014 at 12:45 am

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  THANX!