Moving from .com to .org
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Hi Happiness Engineer,
I have a couple of questions.
1. I moved my wordpress.com site to a self hosted .org site more than an year ago. I still get new followers on my .com site. Is there a way to automatically send them to my .org site?
2. How can I read and comment on other wordpress bloggers using my .org account? Each time I comment and read, it appears as a comment from my .com account.
3. Is there a wordpress interface from my .org account? Now, I see only my .com account.
4. When I follow a blogger, it is the .com account that follows it or the .org account?
I am still very confused between the two accounts. Could you please direct me to a good video that will help me understand it once and for all… I am lost. -
Hi there,
1. I moved my wordpress.com site to a self hosted .org site more than an year ago. I still get new followers on my .com site. Is there a way to automatically send them to my .org site?
There is not, no. But you should be able to move them over manually using Jetpack, just like you did when you first moved your site away from us.
Once you’ve done that, set your WordPress.com site to private at My Site ->Manage ->Settings, and people will no longer be able to follow it. Optionally you can also add the Site Redirect upgrade, which would send anyone clicking on an old link for your free WordPress.com address, to the current site instead.
2. How can I read and comment on other wordpress bloggers using my .org account? Each time I comment and read, it appears as a comment from my .com account.
You can’t. But before I throw a big wall of information at you, what is your end goal here? If you want your comments to link back to your new site, you can do this by just adding the new site’s URL as your Website URL in your WordPress.com account settings:
https://wordpress.com/me/account/
But to go into more detail, if you’ve signed up for an account on WordPress.org, you now have three “WordPress accounts”. Your WordPress.com account is what you use to log in with us. That’s the account to which your site is connected via Jetpack, and which you can use to manage your site using our interface.
Then you have the admin account for your site. That’s the admin user you use to log into WP-Admin, that was created when you installed WordPress on your host’s servers. That account can only be used to log into your site, period. It cannot be used anywhere else.
Lastly you might have a WordPress.org account. WordPress.org is not a hosting provider or a platform like WordPress.com, but is the site where the WordPress community works together to make and support the WordPress software. A WordPress.org account can only be used to post in the WordPress.org support forums, or to contribute to that software yourself via bug reports, discussions, and code contributions.
The only one of these accounts that can be used to comment on a site is the WordPress.com one, and then only if that site is on WordPress.com, or connected to WordPress.com using Jetpack, and Jetpack’s comments module. The only other option is to comment on a site while logged out (which would be the case on any WordPress site not using Jetpack comments), where you’d manually type in your email address and site URL.
3. Is there a wordpress interface from my .org account? Now, I see only my .com account.
No. See my explanation for number 2 on how WordPress.org accounts work.
4. When I follow a blogger, it is the .com account that follows it or the .org account?
If you follow a WordPress.com site, it’s always via a WordPress.com account. There’s no other option. You can also follow WordPress.com sites or Jetpack-connected sites via email, but if you do that using the email address attached to your WordPress.com account, it’s automatically your WordPress.com account that’s following the site.
A WordPress.org account, and an individual site’s admin account, cannot be used to follow sites.
I don’t know of any video that explains this, but I hope my explanation helps. Let me know if you have any more questions.
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