Help! Redirecting a wordpress.com to wordpress.org w/o losing theme

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  tiredpony · Member · Nov 17, 2014 at 11:50 pm

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  I mapped my wordpress.com blog (misforamazing.wordpress.com) to the domain that I purchased (misforamazing.com). When the DNS servers sorted themselves out, the custom theme that I had for my self-hosted blog had been overwritten and was back to the Adelle theme on my wordpress.com blog.

  How can I avoid this or is it impossible?

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 17, 2014 at 11:52 pm

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  It is a misunderstanding. IF you mapped an exterior domain to your WP.com blog, what is shown is the WP.com blog. Not the external blog.

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  tiredpony · Member · Nov 17, 2014 at 11:54 pm

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  So there is no way to just redirect the wp.com url to the self-hosted?

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 17, 2014 at 11:55 pm

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  Sure, that’s easy. You just buy the Redirect Upgrade from the dashboard Store page of the WP.com blog.

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  tiredpony · Member · Nov 18, 2014 at 12:00 am

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  When I tried that, it wouldn’t let me do the site redirect because I had purchased the domain mapping. I’ve removed that though, and it seems like it’ll let me purchase that upgrade.

  thank you.