Migrating Personal Site to Business Site
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Is it possible to do some Web design work using my free personal WordPress account, then migrating the entire site over to an existing business domain when I upgrade to a business account with WordPress?
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migrating the entire site over to an existing business domain
Where would this domain be hosted?
See here please: https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/
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I currently work for a Land Surveyor who wants to upgrade the company website. I’d like to see if I like WordPress, so I’ve joined as a personal member. I’d like to work a bit with the site, and if it is acceptable then I would like to take what I’ve done, purchase a business account with WordPress and move all of my work over.
In answer to your question, it would be hosted by WordPress and we would cancel our current account with a different provider.
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it would be hosted by WordPress and we would cancel our current account with a different provider.
See: Moving from a Self-Hosted WordPress to WordPress.com
https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/re: purchasing upgrades
WordPress.com provides free blogs and hosts them free of charge. There are no bandwidth charges. All WordPress.com blogs come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images. Free features are listed here https://en.wordpress.com/features/
We have different plans: free, personal, premium and business. All hosting is free regardless of which plan you choose. You can view all wordpress.com plan features here https://wordpress.com/pricing/ Add a plan for each of your sites here: http://store.wordpress.com/plans/.
Details:
There are no monthly payment plans and no bulk deal upgrades. We are billed annually. Also note that purchase orders are not accepted. We must pay for all upgrades in full at the time of purchase.WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible. http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/ The domain or mapping of any existing domain URL is included in the pricing for a personal upgrade, a premium and a business upgrade.
Premium upgrades do not include any premium themes which are all individually priced one time upgrades. The Business upgrade includes access to all premium themes but also note that there is no e-commerce capability under any plan here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/small-business-website-1?replies=2#post-2804631.
Make sure you read the comparison very closely do you know exactly what the restrictions and limitations on WordPress.COM blogging are: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
Also read Important Notes Before Upgrading
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgradingWordPress.com does not provide an email service for blogs on their sub domains or on custom domains. Please see these support docs
https://en.support.wordpress.com/add-email/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-forwarding/What domain mapping does is providing a seamless redirect to the very same content under the new domain URL when a person clicks the old URL .wordpress.com to the original content. It can take up to 72 hours for domain propagation to take place throughout the internet but it doesn’t usually take that long. https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard and purchase upgrades at > Dashboard> Store > My Upgrades
https://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/Your billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History
https://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/Your only options for payment are found here Payment Methods http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/
Refunds have lime limits. WordPress.com provides a 30-day refund on all upgrades except Domain Registrations, Domain Renewals, and Guided Transfers. The refund period for Domain Registrations and Renewals is 48 hours.
Note: It takes from 1 – 2 weeks for the refund to be received.
You have to be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard, cancel any upgrades, claim a refund for any qualified upgrades, and disable auto-renew. Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades. You can also disable auto-renew there. http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/#canceling-upgrades
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Actually, further to above — can WordPress host other domains? We have a current domain name which we want to keep. I would like to use the WordPress programs to set up the site, upgrade to the WordPress business account and then migrate all of the work I do over to our current domain address once everything is ready to publish.
Is this possible?
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Hi @zoomb767, we certainly can host existing domains. Here’s how:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/It sounds like you should go ahead and start a new site here:
https://wordpress.com/start/Then you can work on moving the content over. We can let you know what your options are if you’ll send a link to your site. Then you can get a plan, do any additional site configurations you like, and point the domain to our servers.
Once you have a plan, you’ll have chat-based support, too, so if you need help, just let us know. Cheers :)
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