Migrate My Followers from WordPress.com to WordPress.org
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I would like to move My Followers (both email and WordPress.com) from TodaysQuoteFromGod.Wordpress.Com to TodaysQuoteFromGod.com (powered by WordPress.org). Can a Happiness Engineer help me with this? I’ve completed the migration from WordPress.com to WordPress.org except for this one step. Thank you in advance for your help. :)
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I’d be glad to help you with this. Before I go ahead, I see that your Jetpack site is currently connected to the domain 50.87.144.102/~todaysqu/
I recommend that you change this to your domain name todaysquotefromgod.com and reconnect Jetpack to your WordPress.com account before proceeding. This will avoid many issues later. :-)
Just let me know when you’re done.
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Thanks for pointing that out. :) The “50…” was a temp URL I used for building the site. I just activated todaysquotefromgod.com yesterday.
How do I make that switch in Jetpack? Do I need to completely uninstall and then reinstall the plugin? Or, is there some other method I should use? I just looked for a way to make that switch without uninstalling/reinstalling, but I couldn’t find one. However, I’m not the most observant fellow. :)
Please advise when you can. Thanks so much!
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Hi Robbie, within your dashboard, you can disconnect Jetpack from your WordPress.com account and then reconnect it – you shouldn’t need to reinstall the plugin.
Let me know if you run into any trouble.
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10-4. Just did that. That was easier than I thought. :)
That is, if I did it correctly. Did I?
Thanks!
Robbie
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That worked. :-)
I’ve transferred your subscribers and followers as requested. Good luck with your new site!
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Thanks! Two quick cleanup questions:
1) On my WordPress.com site, the Subscribers/Followers Widget would say something like, “Join 75 other followers…” The Widget would total up my email, Facebook, and WordPress.com (other bloggers) followers (I don’t think it added in my Twitter followers?) I just refreshed TodaysQuoteFromGod.com after receiving your notification of transfer, but I’m not seeing that “Join 75 other followers…” type of notification in the Subscribers widget. Is that supposed to be there, or is that notification language not available with Jetpack?
2) I think I had one subscriber subscribe to TodaysQuoteFromGod.com when it was in that other URL, “50…” I’m not quite sure how that happened since I didn’t publicize the site. Nevertheless, are you able to check the Jetpack database to see about transferring that one (if it exists) to TodaysQuoteFromGod.com? If it’s too much trouble, no worries. Just thought I’d ask. :)
Thanks for your help! Robbie
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Is that supposed to be there, or is that notification language not available with Jetpack?
You can display that number by checking off the box in the subscription widget settings: http://d.pr/i/y9On
2) I think I had one subscriber subscribe to TodaysQuoteFromGod.com when it was in that other URL, “50…”
I was able to transfer that stray subscriber over for you. :-)
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Awesome! Done.
This will be my last question. In the WordPress.com version of my blog, the Subscriber (Follow) widget totaled the email, WordPress.com, and Facebook subscribers. Since I have 15 Facebook followers, the total was showing up on http://todaysquotefromgod.wordpress.com/ as 73+15=88. How do I make the Subscriber widget add in the Facebook followers so I can show 88 on my .org blog?
Thanks so much for all of your help! You’ve been great!
Robbie
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I just discovered that the WordPress.com version of the blog was counting email subscribers, WordPress.com (blog) subscribers, and my Facebook (15 right now) and Twitter (1 right now) connections. When I looked at the Site Stats, it included Publicize people (I had connections for Facebook and Twitter) in the count of total followers. I’ve added the Facebook and Twitter connections to TodaysQuoteFromGod.com through Jetpack’s Publicize feature, but it doesn’t appear that Jetpack adds email/blog subscribers to the Publicize people for a total count. Is that correct? Is there any way to get them all counted together like it is on a WordPress.com blog? Please let me know at your convenience. Thanks! Robbie
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I lied about that being my last question. Sorry. :)
I uploaded my latest blog post last night and scheduled it to post at 2 am this morning as always. I used my WordPress app on my iPad to do this (as always). The post did not publish at 2 am as scheduled. I manually published it around 7 am this morning. When I published it, I did not receive an email that it had been sent out (I have my own address in the email subscribers list to make sure posts go out.).
Can you help me address these two issues? Is there a setting on my end I am missing out on? Thanks! Robbie
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…it doesn’t appear that Jetpack adds email/blog subscribers to the Publicize people for a total count. Is that correct? Is there any way to get them all counted together like it is on a WordPress.com blog?
That’s correct. This may change in the future, but for now this is the way the calculation works in Jetpack.
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I uploaded my latest blog post last night and scheduled it to post at 2 am this morning as always. I used my WordPress app on my iPad to do this (as always).
For help with the iPad app, check out this forum:
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Thanks on both counts, Kathryn. I appreciate it.
I did just do a test post directly in my admin panel via my PC. The scheduling and subscriber notifications worked just fine. So, it does appear to be the iPad app. I’ll check into that forum.
Thanks again, and have a great day!
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Kathryn, sorry to bug you again. Can you tell me how to edit my subscription notifications? The emails sent out for new blog posts have the entire posts in the email. I want the emails to have just a snippet of a post so that they have to click the email to go to my site in order to read the entire post.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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The emails sent out for new blog posts have the entire posts in the email. I want the emails to have just a snippet of a post so that they have to click the email to go to my site in order to read the entire post.
You can adjust that by heading to Settings > Reading, and selecting “summary” next to “For each article in a feed, show.”
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Well, another question. I’ve had two bloggers follow my TodaysQuoteFromGod.Wordpress.com blog within the last day even though I took down the Follow widget from that site prior to their subscription.
Can you let me know how to avoid that in the future? Do I need to purchase the Site Redirect for $13.00 so that future folks are always directed to the new blog?
And, can you migrate these two new subscribers for me to TodaysQuoteFromGod.com?
Thanks in advance for your advise and help. Have a great day!
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Can you let me know how to avoid that in the future? Do I need to purchase the Site Redirect for $13.00 so that future folks are always directed to the new blog?
Yes, that would be the best option.
Just let me know once that’s done and I’ll transfer over any remaining subscribers.
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10-4. I’ve just purchased the upgrade. Please transfer those subscribers at your earliest convenience. Thanks!
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