How seamless would it be to move back to WordPress.com with new domain?
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Hi there,
Recently, a programmer colleague offered to host me for free for a year through his service. I purchased a new domain through him (which I wanted), however, he had trouble moving me over, so he just recreated everything in WordPress. I lost my followers and comments and it doesn’t redirect. I was looking into fixing this, but I also miss the WordPress.com community, and I don’t really see a benefit for me on .org since I am not a retailer. If I move back, will this affect me in search? Would I just start fresh from my old URL (cjanesko.wordpress.com) and move to the new URL (floridanatureuncovered)? What about the .org site? Do I need to move back from there? Please help. :/
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Your old blog has been waiting for you
You can also register floridanatureuncovered.wordpress.com and use that for your base blog (not required but sort of cool I think to have the names match)
Fairly straightforward – you export from your current WordPress.ORG install and import the contents to a blog here (either blog name will work) – then make sure you did the import correctly and your blog looks like you want it to
Then you can Domain Map .floridanatureuncovered.com. to the blog here and the traffic will follow the domain name – the Permalinks you are using at your current site don’t match the structure here so old search links will go to your blog here but not to the correct Post – it will take a few months for search engines to get used to the new permalink structure and re-index your content
If you are using the JetPack Plug-in you can ask the staff to transfer your subscribers to your blog here –
If you have a custom email with the domain, you will need to do something different, several options – or there is a new email forwarding feature for mapped domain names that might be fine – but there are several email options
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Thank you, auxclass! So you are saying that I select Export under Tools within my .org account. It says I will have to “register my website as an application on WordPress.com.” Will I not be using my old wordpress.com site in this process? Will that be like a third blog out there? Sorry for dumb questions, trying to figure this out! I don’t have any emails connected to the domain, so that’s not a problem. Does it cost anything to ask the staffers to transfer my subscribers?
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Oh! And here’s a complicating factor… my comments didn’t transfer over to my new .org site, and I would like them to be transferred to my .com site with the new domain. Is that possible?
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yes you can use your existing blog here http://cjanesko.wordpress.com/ – no problem at all – no need to make a new blog name
There is a box to check “everything” that should bring comments
here is some help
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-from-wordpress-org
When it all is set up like you want here – change the domain
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
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Great, thanks again auxclass! Reading all of this is one thing — but really having questions/concerns answered is priceless! Thanks again.
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You be welcome
Just step through one step at a time – don’t skip things and read the whole set up steps first –
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Okay — I have one more question! (Last one, I promise!) I just talked to my developer friend, and he suggested that instead of moving from my new site, that I just add the three more posts I have written since the changeover to my old site and then do the Domain mapping. Would that make more sense? The old site looks just like my new site and I am happy with it looks-wise. It only has a few posts extra and that would be no problem to add.
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(So in other words — add new posts to old site and then domain map old site to new domain?)
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Your developer friend is correct – that would work –
But you should also be able to export just the three new Posts and import them here – you should be able to sort them by date – export all since xxxx date – or just copy and past and move new copies of any media / pictures
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