Looking for someone to help me move to another host and change site
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I’ve had my blog for about a year and a half now and I would like to make it look more like a website and add functionality. I also want to transfer it from the WordPress hosted site. My technical skills are fairly puny and I would like to pay someone to help me. Can someone tell me the best way/place to find such people? I live in Southwest Florida which isn’t exactly loaded with techies! Thanks.
Kay
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To move your content you need to create an XML export file of your content. It will not include the theme as they cannot be exported. See 3 below.
Note: Premium Themes that are licensed for WordPress.com use only cannot be transferred to self-hosted WordPress.org sites. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/premium-themes/
Also note that if you have purchased a premium theme you will have to contact the theme designer and request a wordpress.org version of it.
WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate.
http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/1. Hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/
2. Set up a WordPress.org install and equip it with a theme and plugins.
http://wordpress.org/themes/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/3. Export your content out of your WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the install.
4. Purchase a site redirect upgrade from wordpress.com
http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ or if you have domain mapping then update the nameservers http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-management/5. Transfer subscribers and stats. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/
6. Set your wordpress.com blog visibility to private. To change blog visibility to private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
Alternatively you can purchase a Guided Transfer and Staff will do the move and set up for you http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/
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Thank you for the response although it all sounds daunting to me and I know I’ll need to find someone to pay to get me through it. Or else see if my new health plan covers Valium – lots of it!
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Alternatively you can purchase a Guided Transfer and Staff will do the move and set up for you
See above for the link
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