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  tompascoew · Member · Dec 10, 2011 at 5:31 pm

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  So my Dad bought me a .com for hosting my WP, but every time I attempt to transfer my blog over there I just end up with a lot of broken galleries, broken videos, missing pictures etc.

  Is there an easier way to do it than from your WP.com dashboard? Or is that it and you just have to fix it all yourself, (there’s around 50 posts, it’d take time)

  Is it easier to just buy a .com through WP? Would my Dad have to release the other one and then purchase it through WP instead?

  Thanks

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  justjennifer · Member · Dec 10, 2011 at 7:20 pm

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  If you want to use your own domain with your WordPress.com site, you’ll need to purchase the domain mapping upgrade. See here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 10, 2011 at 7:33 pm

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  Is the site you are talking about hosted somewhere like godaddy, bluehost or dreamhost?

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  tompascoew · Member · Dec 10, 2011 at 8:16 pm

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  It’s hosted at GoDaddy, we’re going to cancel it and purchase it through WP I think.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 10, 2011 at 8:28 pm

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  During the import process to the godaddy installation, you are given the choice of having your images brought over. If you select to do that then it should also import all your images. On videos, if you were inserting from youtube, vimeo, etc., here, then those can also be made to function on the new site by installing the Jetpack plugin which will keep the wordpress.com style video shortcodes.

  Galleries being broken are likely due to the images not being imported during the original import.

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  auxclass · Member · Dec 10, 2011 at 8:56 pm

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  Note: your old site needs to still be up and reachable for the images to be imported – images are not in the import file but links to the original images are –

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  justjennifer · Member · Dec 10, 2011 at 10:48 pm

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  @tompascoew-Perhaps I misunderstand what it is you want to do.

  Don’t cancel the domain at GoDaddy with the thought that you’ll buy the same domain here on WordPress.com. That can lead to all sorts of problems, not the least of which is possibly someone else buying up the domain meanwhile. If you’re not wanting to run your own ads, install plugins and the like, I’d give the WordPress.com domain mapping option a look see.

  If you do want to move away from WordPress.com to run a self-hosted install of WordPress with your own domain, just FYI, unless the export has been fixed, Galleries with includes/excludes can get quite messed up during an import somewhere else because image ID numbers seem to change. (Being forewarned and all that…) I’m not aware that there is an easy fix for the problem other than going through post by post to correct them.

  Read here to understand better the difference between the different kinds of WordPress: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  justjennifer · Member · Dec 11, 2011 at 6:41 am

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  More reading for understanding:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/deleted-blog-but-still-want-to-use-domain-name?replies=17#post-767082