Moving from a self-hosting blog to a wordpress hosted blog

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  ehyoung · Member · Aug 17, 2013 at 9:10 pm

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  Hi,

  I am currently hosting several blogs with my own hosting provider, network solutions. I would like to move one of them over to wordpress – including the custom domains. I’d like to understand what is involved in doing this and what they limitations are.

  Thanks,

  Ed

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  nunbuoy · Member · Aug 17, 2013 at 9:19 pm

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  I’m in the process of doing this right now.
  1. Create your new wordpress.com blog. Export your existing content and import it to your new blog. (This is a function on your left hand menu at the dashboard).
  2. Maintain your existing domain name registry (WordPress does not accept incoming domain name registries).
  3. Go to http://store.wordpress.com/ and look over your options. You will need to purchase a domain redirect ($13) and possibly some additional storage space.
  4. There are some limitations on code and advertising, but from the looks of your site, these are not things you’ll run into.

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  auxclass · Member · Aug 18, 2013 at 1:28 am

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  3) You need to Map an existing domain: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/