how do I switch back to the wordpress managed site

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  vanessat74 · Member · Mar 7, 2022 at 3:58 am

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  My hosted domain recently expired and I am wanting to just keep my site content in the wordpress managed site. What do I need to do to switch back to that and use a free wordpress template theme?

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  cuellin · Member · Mar 7, 2022 at 5:49 am

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  Hi there vanessat74

  Is your site hosted here at WordPress.com? If you could share the site’s URL, we can check that for you.

  If you indeed had your site hosted here with a paid plan and you want to switch back to a free plan, what you are looking for is a plan downgrade. You can read about it here: https://wordpress.com/support/manage-purchases/#downgrade-your-plan
  For a downgrade, you’ll require assistance from staff, and you’ll most likely lose some of the current features you may have.

  But, if you have a site hosted elsewhere, you can move it here to a new website. Then what you are looking for is a migration. You can learn more about moving your site to WordPress.com from this link: https://wordpress.com/support/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/

  I’ll be happy to help if you need further assistance 👍

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  vanessat74 · Member · Mar 7, 2022 at 5:57 am

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  Thanks for the quick reply- it was hosted with Godaddy and I just let it lapse as I hadn’t written any content on there in a long time, but I just wanted to see if I could still have it up and running as a free site through wordpress in case I ever get the desire to write again!

  URL was: thesoundtrack2mylife.com

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  cuellin · Member · Mar 7, 2022 at 8:12 am

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  No worries, I went through the same process when I stopped updating my blog and didn’t want to keep paying for hosting and domain, so I transferred it here to a free site.

  Hopefully, you still have access to the dashboard of your WordPress installation because you have to export your content from there.
  For the migration process linked above, you should use the Option 2 and follow these instructions: https://wordpress.com/support/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/#option-2-content-only-export

  You will be exporting your content from your previous site and then importing it to a new site hosted here.

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  vanessat74 · Member · Mar 7, 2022 at 11:08 pm

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  Thank you so much for your help! :)
  Have a great day.