Moving a wordpress.com (with domain) to .org — easy or hard?
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I already have asked a question in the forum tonight, but I’m new to WP and I want to get some working knowledge before I get too far.
I’m a little divided between wp.com and wp.org. I want to give .com a chance before moving on to .org–but how hard is it to move over? I’ve heard the import/export tool makes it easy, but the same tool moving from blogger to wordpress lost some formatting and comments and whatnot. Also, I already have a domain at wordpress.com (dreamsandspeculations.com rather than dreamsandspeculation.wordpress.com), can I move that over as well so that people don’t have to re-learn a new URL?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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It’s not difficult at all. I did it myself a few weeks ago and it’s simple as in three or four clicks simple.
Moving from Blogger does pose a lot more problems, but between wp.com and wp.org is simple.
You can move the domain over as well, quite easily. There’s some sort of limit about moving it in the first sixty days, but after that it should be no problem.
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Here’s the process >
export/import contents http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#toc
export/import links http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/import-export-links/
copy and paste text widget contents
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If I may add on to this! If you do change over to WP.org, are you still able to participate in the WP.com forums?
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No, the software is different for each:
wp.COM does not equal wp.ORG.Answers in this forum might apply, but most likely will not help wp.ORG users.
Here is the support document about the differences:
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There are lots of code we cannot use on wp,COM which .ORG folk can:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/wp.COM users can’t use adverts:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/wp.ORG users can choose from many themes available online. wp.COM people cannot.
We are using shared software on .COM so many questions from .ORG do not apply to us: most likely we have no experience with them.
Essentially, the answer is “No” if you switch to wp.ORG, then the wp.COM forums are not for you.
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@sarahbaram
No you do not get to benefit from being a member of a community that you no longer are a member of once you choose to leave it. That simply illogical and would have ramifications that you may not have considers.Most bloggers who choose to leave here do so because they wish to make an income from advertising on there blogs and/or from affiliate schemes. There are legion of former wordpress.com bloggers who chose to leave the community and get wordpress.org installs who are today blogging for bucks.
If they were allowed to post to the wordpress.com forums as if they were still members of this community then the Showcase and Off-Topic Forums could become a haven for opportunistic bloggers looking for ad clickers. We have already had instances of this which have been reported to Staff.
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Please accept my apologies for the terrible typos and spelling errors above – I am having a very bad vision day :(
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Thanks Timethief,
I didn’t think about the Off-topic and Showcase forums.
No you do not get to benefit from being a member of a community that you no longer are a member of once you choose to leave it.
Is that an official policy, that non-wordpress.com bloggers can’t post there? What about WordPress users who have wp.com accounts for the API Key? Can wp.com distinguish between them and folk who have blogs hosted here?
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Timethief,
Sorry to hear about your bad vision day. I get migraines that hit me unexpectedly. Can’t see.
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@1Tess
These wordpress.com forums are the only ones that I know of that have not been over-run by opportunists seeking ad clickers, who signature drop links in every posts they make. In fact I can reel off a list of forum communities where opportunistic bloggers (nice folks) opened the door and the influx of scammers, spammers and trolls destroyed the community fabric. i can also reel off a list of forums that are no more and the common denominator is opening the door to make money bloggers looking for ad clickers.As there is no blogger initiated advertising allowed on wordpress.com blogs I sincerely doubt that Automattic will open that door even a crack. Maybe we do need an official response from Staff. I you choose to send an email to Staff about this, then please feel free to point them to my comments in this thread.
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Ugh, well that makes my decision to go to .org an easy ‘no’. I just can’t seem to like any of the themes available on .com.
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I agree wholeheartedly:
Wp.com takes very good notice of “scammers, spammers and trolls,” and these forums are very usable as a result.I was thanking you for reminding me of the off-topic and showcase forums, which I don’t use.
Me now considering what you pointed out here, posting in our “showcase” forums with a wp.ORG blog could very well become spam if done more than once.
But maybe participating in the off-topic forum with a wp.org (plus a wp.com account) would not necessarily be spamming. There are also folk who have accounts but no blogs. If I recall correctly, it’s a lot of games and general discussions about many things.
I was assuming sarahbaram was asking about coming to support forum, questions forum, Css forum, etc. after a person switched to wp.ORG. In that case, most of our answers would not be applicable in most cases.
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@sarahbaram, I’ll just add a couple comments regarding self-hosted blogs.
You will need to do all your own backups, and the best way to do that is through the control panel for your web hosting account. That way it backs up everything including all the wordpress and theme files, plugins, and any customizations or additions you have made to the CSS or the theme files, and it also backs up the entire wordpress MySQL database. That makes it very easy to restore your complete installation should anything happen.
You will also be responsible for all troubleshooting, upgrades and installation. None of this requires “maximum geek” but it does require “moderate geek.” It is something that you can pick up as you go along though and google searches, and searches in the wordpress.ORG forums will typically get you – if not the complete answer, at least a good clue to the problem.
WordPress.ORG software now has upgrade features for themes, plugins, and the main wordpress core files, so even upgrading is far more simple than it was a year ago.
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One last thing. Make yourself a backup schedule and stick to it faithfully. I’ve been called in to several blog messes where the latest backup was a couple months old and the people ended up having to recreate a couple months work by digging through the search engine caches and copy pasting and reposting the material that was missing from their backup. In one instance, that amounted to 150 posts. THAT will ruin a good week or two of your life in a hurry.
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@oldiron2020
You can make your own backups of content and links.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/import-export-links/
If you don’t want to use the export/import function and store the files on your won computer there are also other ways to back-up your content. See > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2007/10/27/disaster-planning-backups-for-bloggers/
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