Imported wp.org site to wp.com but do NOT want all content synced with my blog!
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I imported olathemta.org to my lesliesmusicstudio.com wordpress site and do NOT want all the info synced with my studio blog!! olathemta needs to be a separate blog!! I thought that was what I was doing. How do I get all the data from olathemta.org UNSYNCED from my studio blog and turned into its own blog on MY account – not it’s old account from which I switched it over from.
HELP! Desperate.
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Hello there,
Could you tell me what you hoped to accomplish with the import of all your exported content from olathemta.org to lesliesmusicstudio.com (your WordPress.com site)?
Please let me know so I can help come up with a solution for you.
If it’s possible, would you like me to see if I can revert your WordPress.com site back to the way it was before you ran the import? You will lose ALL the imported olathemta.org content, if this happens.
Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks very much.
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Hi,
I am the website manager for a group that I’m a part of, but the website was passed on to me from another WordPress user so I’ve been using her account for the past year but wanted to start using my own WordPress account to manage the OlatheMTA.org site. I was hoping that “importing” the site to my WordPress account would transfer it into my name as author, but NOT incorporate it with my own business website – they are two different entities. Just like I have multiple blogs I’ve created under my username – leslienewlin – I thought importing the OlatheMTA site would become one of those additional “blogs.”
I’d rather not have you revert my WordPress.com sit back, because I was able to make all the OlatheMTA pages into draft-form so that they don’t show up on my site. This is just my temporary fix.
Do you think I need to start a brand new site for the OlatheMTA website under my own account in order to get everything back in order?
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Correction: Do you mean that by reverting my site back to the way it was before the import, it would just fix my site but the old OlatheMTA.org site would remain intact with all its content? Or all the content is forever lost? I still have the export file in my downloads folder on my computer if that helps to recover information.
Thanks for your help.
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Hi there,
I thought importing the OlatheMTA site would become one of those additional “blogs.”
In my understanding, you didn’t import the site. You imported all the content from that site into your own website.
If you want to host OlatheMTA at WordPress.com, you need to create a new WordPress.com site, then import olathemta.org content into that empty site.
Content needs to go into a “container” — and it will be imported into whatever container you’re logged into when you clicked Tools → Import.
Do you mean that by reverting my site back to the way it was before the import, it would just fix my site but the old OlatheMTA.org site would remain intact with all its content?
It appears to me as if your OlatheMTA.org site site is already intact with all its content, isn’t it? It’s not on our servers, so I cannot tell what’s happening with it.
It also seems as if the amount of content moved from OlatheMTA.org to lesliesmusicstudio.com isn’t very extensive. You may be best off simply manually deleting the material you don’t want on your own site. Deleting that content will only remove it from your site…it won’t delete it from the actual self-hosted site.
Please let us know if you have any other questions. Thanks much!
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If I do start a new blog and import all the content from OlatheMTA, how can I make sure the domain name is the exact same as it was when it was on WordPress.org? It is an organization I’m a part of, and I think they would want the “.org” to remain the same, instead of changing to “.com”.
I appreciate all your help so far!
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I guess my question is really, “How can I start a new blog with the same domain name when this one is still active on the old account?” (Do I have to delete the old one and then immediately start a new one on WordPress.com?) Since it’s not possible to have 2 websites with the same domain existing at the same time…
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Hi Leslie!
If I do start a new blog and import all the content from OlatheMTA, how can I make sure the domain name is the exact same as it was when it was on WordPress.org? It is an organization I’m a part of, and I think they would want the “.org” to remain the same, instead of changing to “.com”.
What you will need to do in this case is the following:
- Start a new WordPress.com site.
- Import the content from OlatheMTA.org into the WordPress.com site.
- Make any aesthetic changes you need to the site. While you’re working on it, you can make the site private, so nobody else can view it:
en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ - When the site is ready, make it public.
- Map the domain, OlatheMTA.org, to “point” at your WordPress.com site. Here are the instructions for domain mapping a domain you already own:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/#instructions-for-mapping-an-existing-domain -
Once that is done, it’s up to you if you keep the self-hosted site or not. Anyone who visits OlatheMTA.org will be seeing the site at WordPress.com.
If you do cancel the self-hosted site, I recommend making sure you have a full backup first.
Does this help? Let me know if you have questions about the steps! Thanks :)
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