How to transfer a wordpress website to a free wordpress domain

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  tinboxtheatre · Member · Apr 10, 2017 at 7:05 pm

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  Hi, I’ve got a company wordpress site currently registered to a domain which is being hosted. The company has closed but we still want to keep the website online for archive purposes but cannot afford the hosting – does anyone know how to transfer the site to a free wordpress.com one? There’s lots online but I don’t understand a lot of it.. is there a simple way to do this?

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  otpidusprime · Member · Apr 10, 2017 at 7:17 pm

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  Hi there,
  Is that website currently using WordPress.ORG?
  If yes, then you can move that site to WordPress.COM(and use the free hosting and subdomain) by following the instructions given here:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/

  Hope this helps. :)

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  tinboxtheatre · Member · Apr 10, 2017 at 7:36 pm

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  hi thanks so much for the speedy reply! No it’s an independent domain – tinboxtheatre.co.uk but we built the site using wordpress and its a wordpress site, does this mean the above won’t work for this? Thanks so much for your help

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  otpidusprime · Member · Apr 10, 2017 at 7:45 pm

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  I looked at the site(http://tinboxtheatre.co.uk/) and i can confirm that it is built on WordPress.ORG. So… the method shown in the link i gave before will work for your site :)