How do I move my WP domain name to a website

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  toplessdriver · Member · Sep 26, 2012 at 2:40 am

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  With an incredibly heavy heart I am moving to a website with a built in blog. I have done well thanks to WP and all of you but I need to meet customer/fan demand. So I need to know:

  How do I move my wordpress domain name to my new website?

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  How do I move all the blogs I have ever written over – or is it a one at a time experience?

  Help – thank you.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 26, 2012 at 2:53 am

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  You hire a web host and set up a free software install from http://wordpress.org You install a theme and plugins. Then you export your content out of your WordPress.com blog and import it into you WordPress.org install.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/

  If you’ve registered your domain through WordPress.com and now want it to point to a blog or website hosted elsewhere then you can do this by updating the nameservers. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-management/#update-nameservers
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-management/

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  toplessdriver · Member · Sep 26, 2012 at 3:10 am

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  Oh Timethief – so glad you are back. Hope you are feeling better. I am moving to a website – nothing to do with wordpress (I feel so sad about it. A very big decision for me as I love the WordPress community) . Do you know if I can still export my wordpress content to a non wordpress website?

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  toplessdriver · Member · Sep 26, 2012 at 3:14 am

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  And – do I need to move all my blog content first before domain transfer? I do not want to loose everything I have written. I want to transfer it all over to new blog built in my website.