Moving between owned blogs
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When moving blogs between owned wordpress.org blogs – will the exact copy of the blog being moved appear on another blog? Ie, will it contain theme, menus, everything 100 percent identical?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Themes and widgets will not be exported and your Custom menu display is theme dependent. Some themes do not have Custom menu capability, but the good news is that the theme you use (Twenty Ten) is available at WordPress.ORG. https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyten
The XML file will contain all your blog content It will not include text widget content or the theme. Please read the support doc here http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/#download-your-content and scroll down to this section:
Note: This will ONLY export your posts, pages, comments, categories, and tags; uploads and images may need to be manually transferred to the new blog. …
Here’s a summary of the steps you need to take to move your content and your domain mapping.
WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate.
http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/1. Hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and purchase a domain.
2. Set up a WordPress.org install and equip it with a theme and plugins.
http://wordpress.org/themes/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/3. To move your content you need to create an XML export file of your content. It will not include the theme and widgets as they cannot be exported. Export your content out of your WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the install.
4. WordPress.com is the top level domain here and all blogs hosted by WordPress.com are on .wordpress.com sub-domains.
(a) Purchase a site redirect upgrade from wordpress.com
http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/(b) Or if you have domain mapping then see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/move-domain/#change-name-servers-to-point-the-domain-outside-of-wordpress-com and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/move-domain/
5. Transfer subscribers. 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/
WordPress.com and WordPress.org have different log-ins and run different versions of themes with same names. If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.
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sorry, between wordpress.com , not org!
RATS! I missed that and I apologize. Please see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-between-wordpress-com-blogs
This will ONLY export your posts, pages, comments, categories, and tags …
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Hi, thank you for a quick response!
Will the copy of the old blog remain while moving its contents to the new one?
I see i better stop moving it and leave the old one ylgroup as the new one yliving will require setting it up to look like the old one. Can you help me here? -
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