Help with transferring followers to new self-hosted blog?

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  donnaamisdavis · Member · Sep 18, 2013 at 5:32 pm

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  Hi! I just moved my blog to wordpress.org from wordpress.com. Can you help me migrate my email and wordpress followers? Thank you so much! The URLS in question are http://www.donnaonpalawan.wordpress.com and http://www.donnaamisdavis.com.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 18, 2013 at 9:43 pm

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  Provided you have installed and activated the JetPack plugin http://jetpack.me on your WordPress.org install, and posted the relevant URL(s) into this thread, Staff will do the transfer of both your subscribers and your blog stats for you. I tagged this thread for their attention. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  donnaamisdavis · Member · Sep 19, 2013 at 1:34 am

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  Thanks so much. I do have JetPack installed and activated.

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  evanwp · Staff · Sep 19, 2013 at 2:55 pm

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  Hi Donna,

  I’ll be happy to assist with this, however it looks like your Jetpack connection isn’t working just yet. Please take a look at this page:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/#wordpress-com-to-self-hosted-site

  and double-check that you connected to WordPress.com on the plug-in page. Let me know when you’ve had a chance to look at that, and I’ll retest the connection. Thanks!

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  donnaamisdavis · Member · Sep 20, 2013 at 12:59 am

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  Hi EvanWP,

  Thanks for your help. I followed JetPack’s debugging advice of deactivating all my plugins and then reactivating JetPack. It looks like I’m connected to WordPress.com correctly now and ready to go.

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  evanwp · Staff · Sep 20, 2013 at 12:13 pm

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  Hi Donna,

  I’ve started the migration of your followers from http://www.donnaonpalawan.wordpress.com to http://www.donnaamisdavis.com. There may be a slight delay, after which everything should be in place.

  Please let me know if you have any questions!

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  donnaamisdavis · Member · Sep 20, 2013 at 2:19 pm

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  Wow, you get to work early! Awesome – I see the wordpress.com followers alive and active. And I see a list of my email only followers, but it appears that only one of them is active. Is there something I need to do to activate the email only list?

  Thanks so much!

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  evanwp · Staff · Sep 23, 2013 at 1:37 pm

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  Hi Donna!

  Your followers are all intact, there isn’t anything you need to do to activate them. There is an issue with the display number that we’re working to resolve, however you should see all of your existing followers listed here:

  https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog=57828955&blog_subscribers&type=email&unit=1

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  donnaamisdavis · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 6:45 pm

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  OK, great! Thanks so much.