going from free wordpress.com to my own blog on wordpress.org

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  alisonburgess · Member · Oct 5, 2011 at 1:14 pm

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  Can anyone tell me how to take a free blog from wordpress.com and upgrade it to a self-hosted blog on wordpress.org? Also, what is the best wordpress book or site to read to learn wordpress if you are not a computer genius, you just want to write?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 5, 2011 at 2:26 pm

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  Have you read this about moving to wp.org:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org

  Having no experience with wp.org, I can only say that I’ve heard the WordPress for Dummies is good. That is hearsay, so maybe someone else has a better recommendation.

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 5, 2011 at 2:44 pm

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  I found the WordPress for Dummies book very helpful when I was starting.

  Also if you just read through the forum over at WordPress.ORG in a few days you will see almost every goof that can be done brought to the forum as well as some great how to do things help: http://wordpress.org/support/