Moving free WP website

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  saskiapaul · Member · Mar 1, 2020 at 1:55 am

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  Hi,

  i am using the free wordpress.com service for my blog. Now I want to move this complete blog to a new hosting provider. My question is how to do so in the most efficient way?

  Many recommend to use the WP plugin “Duplicator” to create a backup and restore it with the new hosting provider. However, with my free WP service, I cannot install any plugins.

  I have also seen that in the menu “tools” you can export your websites and download all pictures. However, to my understanding I can download only the pure text and all pictures. But when I move these websites to the new hosting provider, I need to insert all the pictures from scratch manually. This would be a huge effort as many of my websites use lots of pictures and adding them is always a quite time intensive.

  Do you see any other options to move my free websites?

  Thanks.

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Mar 1, 2020 at 11:05 am

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  Hi there!

  To move your site to another host you can use this guide we prepared:

  https://move.wordpress.com/

  You should be able to import all your content (text and media files) and set up your theme manually.