How can I change my wordpress.com domain to a wordpress.org blog?
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My current blog is sarahbarksdlaedesign.com with wordpress.com. Can I change it to wordpress.org now that I am more comfortable blogging? I would like to be able to keep the domain name I currently have so that my readers can still find my blog. Is that possible? If so, how would I do that?
Blog url: http://sarahbarksdaledesign.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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If you’re interested, we do offer an upgrade called Guided Transfer (available in the Store section of your blog’s Dashboard) where we take care of everything for you: http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/
Otherwise, you’ll need to install WordPress from http://wordpress.org/ on a hosting provider. We have some recommendations at http://get.wp.com/hosting/
Then, direct your domain to your hosting provider by changing your nameservers: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/domain-management/#update-nameservers
Once that’s done, you can move your content following this guide: http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org
To clear up any confusion, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities.
http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/WordPress.org has complete support and documentation sites for self-hosted/installed versions of WordPress at:
http://wordpress.org/support/
http://codex.wordpress.org/We do offer yearly and one-time premium support packages for self-hosted WordPress sites through our VIP program, available at http://vip.wordpress.com
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