Lost Blog Followers

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  250beers · Member · Oct 1, 2014 at 10:56 am

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  Hi

  Last night I tried to move this blog to godaddy self hosted, and I installed jetpack on the new blog and transferred the followers. Unfortunately the install had a glitch and I need to remove, also I removed the linked jetpack. Now all of the follower from the blog are gone. Is there any way to retrieve them?

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 1, 2014 at 7:18 pm

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  250beers · Member · Oct 2, 2014 at 11:07 pm

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  Thanks timethief. Any idea how long they usually take to respond? Thanks for your help!

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  250beers · Member · Oct 4, 2014 at 1:47 pm

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  Any chance that one of the “happiness engineers” could please take a look at this problem? I really need to resolve it before I post new updates to the blog!

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  positivagirl · Member · Oct 4, 2014 at 7:39 pm

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  When I changed to wordpress.org last year I lost all my followers. Apparently this happens when you swap over. I did change back to wordpress.com, as I didn’t like self hosting. I cant remember if I got my followers back, or if I started again? I think they might have still been there when I went back to wordpress.com. I queried it with the happiness engineer who transferred me and they said that followers cant be transferred over.

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  250beers · Member · Oct 4, 2014 at 9:30 pm

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  That doesn’t sound correct. You can definitely transfer followers over using jet pack. What I need is to get mine back to my self hosted site urgently. It can definitely be done, as seen here:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/moving-my-followers-from-a-com-to-a-self-hosted-domain

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  amightywp · Member · Oct 6, 2014 at 7:39 pm

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  Hi there, @250beers,

  What was the URL of the blog which you moved all of your followers over to, starting with http://? I’ll take a look and see if I can find it. And to verify, if I do find it do you want me to transfer your followers back to 250beers.wordpress.com?

  Let me know!

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  250beers · Member · Oct 6, 2014 at 10:09 pm

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  Hi amightywp, thanks for your help.

  http://250beers.com

  And yes, if you could move them back to 250beers.wordpress.com that would be fantastic.

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  amightywp · Member · Oct 6, 2014 at 11:03 pm

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  OK, the migration has been taken care of! Your subscribers should now all be in your old WordPress.com site. Let me know if you run in to any issues!

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  250beers · Member · Oct 7, 2014 at 7:24 am

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  Thanks for your help amightywp!!

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  amightywp · Member · Oct 7, 2014 at 2:53 pm

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  No problem at all. Let me know if you need any other help going forward!

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  wpmarccom · Member · Oct 7, 2014 at 8:23 pm

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  Sorry, I,’m new here.
  I would like to do a migration from wp.com (http://martha-marc.com/) to wp.org.
  I’m scare to lose information. And I don’t know If I lose the seniority.

  Thanks

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  amightywp · Member · Oct 7, 2014 at 9:12 pm

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  That’s fine, everyone is new at some point, but if you wouldn’t mind would you please create a new thread so that @250beers doesn’t get pinged throughout the entire conversation? ;)

  You can do so right here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/?new=1