How can I backup my ***.wordpress.com site to move/restore to another site

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  bobr443 · Member · May 2, 2017 at 2:22 pm

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  Can someone point me to a set of instructions to do the above?

  My site name is dtc439.wordpress.com

  Ideally I’d like to be able to create a ‘full cPanel backup’ that I could then use on my new site hosted by InMotion Hosting.

  Thank you in advance

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  themagicrobot · Member · May 2, 2017 at 2:58 pm

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  Click on “My Site” “Settings” “Export”. You can only export your content however, not theme, menu, widgets etc.

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  bobr443 · Member · May 2, 2017 at 4:51 pm

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  Oh, I was hoping that I could take a complete backup and just restore the whole thing quickly to my new domain.

  Just to verify that I understand this correctly, since it looks like I can only export the blog posts and pages, I would need to do the following:

  Export my existing site
  Log on to WordPress from my new site
  Download the Gateway theme
  Import my Blog Posts and Pages
  Set up the Menu
  Add the Widgets
  Cut and Paste text and other settings for the Widgets
  Upload any Image files that I was using

  Does this sound correct? (Am I missing anything? Can I do something else to skip some of those steps?)

  Thank you in advance, Bob R