Moving existing blog to hosted site

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  johnferebee · Member · Aug 17, 2012 at 9:36 pm

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  I have a wordpress.com blog using a free template. I want to set up a self hosted site at Bluehost. Can I move my current blog and all of the posts to the new site?
  Blog url: http://johnferebeephotography.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Aug 17, 2012 at 9:50 pm

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  Yes, you can move all your blog content from your wordpress.com blog into a wordpress.org install. The theme and the content in text widgets cannot be exported. For the text widgets you have to copy and paste to move the content. See here > export > http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/

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  johnferebee · Member · Aug 17, 2012 at 9:54 pm

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  Thank you timethief. I’m not sure why I couldn’t find this on my own but you saved me some time. I appreciate it.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 17, 2012 at 10:00 pm

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  You’re welcome. This may be helpful too > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/11/06/setting-up-a-self-hosted-wordpress-org-install/