How to transfer followers on a wordpress.com hosted blog to self-hosted install?

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  hanasazi · Member · Dec 20, 2012 at 8:25 pm

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  I’ll be moving a client’s blog from wordpress.com to a self-hosted installatino soon. She was concerned about migrating her followers along with the content, but I don’t see anything tht tells me how to do this. She does not yet have her new hosting service but will in a couple of days, so I’m giving you her wordpress.com url here: http://paperandbooks.wordpress.com/

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  hanasazi · Member · Dec 20, 2012 at 8:26 pm

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  Strike that hannahwestdesign.com sentence! It has nothing to do with my question, I just haven’t connected to her blog yet.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 20, 2012 at 8:37 pm

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  1. You install the JetPack plugin and activate it on the self hosted install.
  2. You post the .wordpress.com URL and the self hosted WordPress.corg site URL into a thread like this on and request the tranfer.
  Staff then transfer the email subscribers only as those using the Reader cannot be transferred.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 20, 2012 at 8:38 pm

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  oops! I see a typo above. “WordPress.corg” was meant to be WordPress.org”

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  hanasazi · Member · Dec 20, 2012 at 10:57 pm

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  Thanks so much, timethief! Haha – good to see you – I just watched Doctor Who on BBCA. Trippy timing. Appreciate your help.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 20, 2012 at 11:26 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes.