Linking WordPress.com blog to 1&1 Domain name/web hosting
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Spent hours and hours searching for a solution.. Maybe you can help!
Having my blog on WordPress.com rather than WordPress.org is it possible to transfer my blog to 1&1 domain names without using what WordPress refers to as ‘Domain Mapping’.
Basically I want to be in control of it and use advertising etc.
Does it work, downloading WordPress.org and following set-up instructions for WordPress.org (even though i’m using ‘.com’)?
Please Help!!!!
Thanks,
JackThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You have to open a web hosting account there, install configure and set up the wordpress.ORG software at that domain, then you have to export your content from here and import it into the new .ORG blog. You will then be responsible for all upgrades, all installations, all backups and all troubleshooting. If something goes wrong you have to figure it out and fix it.
Having your own domain name linked to a blog here does not magically exempt you from the TOS or restrictions here. As long as your blog is physically hosted here on wordpress.COM, you have to live by the rules here.
Also, if you do move, the search engine ranking on your new blog will drop to zero and you will be starting over again from scratch. You can offset that somewhat with the new offsite redirect upgrade which will redirect all traffic to your old blog address to the new blog.
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Both of you are confusing things.
WordPress.org does not host blogs for you. Jack, your self hosting will be/is at at 1&1
WordPress.org is the download and support site for self-hosted blogs, themes, plugins documentation etc. with its own support forums and a single blog for news etc. about the WordPress software.
It is extremely easy to export content from your wordpress.com blog (see export in the tools menu in your dashboard) and import it (see import in the tools menu of your new self-hosted blog) into your own self-hosted blog at any hosting company. (I have only done it from self-hosted blog to blog) but see no difficulty, you can easily edit email addresses and absolute links in the exported file – it, the export file, a .xml file is only a text file after all, Mime type: text/xml – don’t use MS Word or any other word processing package e.g. Apple’s Pages application
Domain Mapping is to use your own domain name (either already owned by you or sold to you by wordpress.com, hence 2 different prices for domain mapping) to point at a wordpress.com blog (WP.com/Automattic) is now also a domain registrar and so can sell you a domain name.)
If you are moving to hosting at another hosting company you don’t need Domain Mapping.
If you are ceasing blogging at WP.com you may want to pay for an Offsite Redirect to your new hosting. Which is an outgoing redirect link to your new hosting and you still have to comply with the WordPress.com T&C’s. Personally I think you would be better moving (some) content and leave some posts and/or pages containing links to parts of your new site. You can then still have you blog here to come back to, should things go wrong at your new hosting company.
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