Keeping blog followers when moving to self-hosted WP?

thebutterflymovement · Member · Feb 17, 2012 at 10:35 pm
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I may need to move my blog to a self-hosted solution.

I have 32 followers right now. Is there a way to take these followers with me to the new blog?

The Jetpack plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/) says that it connects to my WordPress.com account and one of the features is “Email subscriptions for your blog’s posts and your post’s comments”.

So would using the Jetpack plugin and connecting to my WordPress.com account keep my current followers? And new followers on the new self-hosted site would be added to my current followers on WordPress.com?

Thanks for any insight you can offer!

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jovenshadow · Member · Feb 19, 2012 at 7:12 am
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I have the same problem, i am very interested on any suggestion and help.
thecatbywas · Member · Mar 12, 2012 at 3:27 am
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Any answer to this?
raincoaster · Member · Mar 12, 2012 at 3:58 am
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Not so much to do with Jetpack, actually.

It has to do with your domain name. If you have a custom domain name, then your subscribers will follow you to your new destination, because the feed URL remains the same, as long as you enable emails at the new site.

If you don’t have a custom domain name, you’ll have to get them to sign up to the new blog’s url once it’s up.
colehaber · Member · Mar 27, 2012 at 12:44 am
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what about email subscribers?
raincoaster · Member · Mar 27, 2012 at 8:48 am
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Totally different. You’ll need to get an email subscription plugin and so on and start from scratch.
kmgard · Member · Apr 23, 2012 at 10:04 pm
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Looks like we’re talking bout a few different things here.

Your WordPress.com blog has 2 different kinds of followers/subscribers: WordPress followers, and email subscribers. I’m not sure how Jetpack comes into play, but from my understanding, we can transfer email subscribers to our self-hosted sites, but we can NOT transfer WordPress followers, since that is a feature solely found on WordPress.com.

Maybe Jetpack transfers email subscribers like you said, but I followed these instructions to transfer mine: http://www.computerandyou.net/2011/10/how-to-move-your-wordpress-com-email-subscribers-to-wordpress-org/

Worked like a charm! Now I just wish there was a way to notify all of those WordPress followers…
staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 23, 2012 at 10:07 pm
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As long as you have Jetpack installed on your self-hosted blog, we can transfer your WordPress.com and email subscribers from your WordPress.com blog to your new self-hosted blog.

http://jetpack.me/
clarebryden · Member · May 23, 2012 at 9:10 am
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Thanks macmanx

I’m interested in this too, and just want to make absolutely sure who it is possible to transfer using Jetpack and who not. My understanding is…

Possible: anyone who has clicked +Follow in the admin bar, and anyone who has clicked the Follow Blog via Email widget
Not possible: RSS subscribers

Is there anything I’ve missed?
Thanks v much
clarebryden · Member · May 23, 2012 at 10:13 am
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Related question – please don’t flame me for going off topic :-)

Is it also possible to use Jetpack to transfer the .org statistics?

Thanks
raincoaster · Member · May 23, 2012 at 11:46 am
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Not at this time, but it’s in the works. There are several statcounters that you can start at some arbitrary number, though.
clarebryden · Member · May 30, 2012 at 2:06 pm
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Thanks raincoaster
jellyfielders · Member · Jun 25, 2012 at 11:58 pm
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Hi,

I am having the same problem. I want to import all of my subscribers/followers, I have installed Jetpack and am using that for the site stats, but it still lists the followers as 0. I have 93 listed on the old account. Is there some setting I am missing?

Thanks
staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 25, 2012 at 11:59 pm
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No, you just need to ask us to move them for you.

What are the URLs of the blogs you’re moving from/to?
onlyandjustme · Member · Jun 30, 2012 at 11:23 am
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i m having the exact same problem..how can i ask you to move my followers?i have jetpack installed on my selfhosted blog..
onlyandjustme · Member · Jun 30, 2012 at 12:39 pm
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staff-blorbo also i need to ask you another thing..when i ve visited your website in my admin bar appeared the famous follow button..i dont know if this is a feature of wp.com or this has to do with your website..but i just want to find out if when i ll transfer my blog to selfhosted this button will continue appearing when i m in a new blog,and also if i can do anything to let others follow me like its happening on wp.com (blog followers,not e-mail)..sorry for the big question…
staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 1, 2012 at 4:17 am
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I have transferred your subscribers as requested.

The Follow button in the admin bar is WordPress.com-only, but you can add a Follow widget to your sidebar via Appearance -> Widgets in your blog’s Dashboard if you have Jetpack installed and active.
onlyandjustme · Member · Jul 1, 2012 at 9:43 am
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really thanks about the transfer!is there any possibility to add a like button that displays also the people who liked the post?like the wp.com one i mean!
onlyandjustme · Member · Jul 1, 2012 at 9:49 am
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also it seems like some of my followers are not in the list!do you have any idea why this is happening?maybe its a setting i didnt do??
staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 1, 2012 at 7:12 pm
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No, the Like button is WordPress.com-only.

The transfer only migrates email subscribers. The WordPress.com Reader subscribers are not transferred, and the WordPress.com Reader only supports WordPress.com blogs.

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