Moving from Self-Hosted to WordPress.com
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I am interested in moving my self-hosted wordpress blog to a wordpress.com site. But I don’t want to lose all of my subscribers. Is this even possible? Has anyone done this, and if so, was it easy, medium, or difficult?
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I don’t see why this should be an issue, if you have Jetpack installed on your wordpress.org blog, then it should be a simple matter for Staff to transfer them to your wordpress.COM blog. I mean, they go the other way all the time. All you’d have to do, is let them know of the two blogs, and then they’d be able to move them across. That is, of course, if it is as simple as I think.
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I think you can still use feedburner to send notices to your subscribers – but I am not familiar completely with feedburner so I have flagged this for the staff to help
Your content can be exported from your .ORG install and imported to a blog here – things like Widgets and such will need to be rebuilt here as they can’t be moved – you can also map your existing custom domain name to your blog here ( $ 13.– / year) so the old search links and bookmarks and such will still work since your Permalink structure is the same on your .ORG install as they are here
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If you have Jetpack installed, we will be able to migrate your WordPress.com and email followers to your new WordPress.com site.
Please reply with:
1) the blog URL of the Jetpack site with your followers
2)the blog where you would like to transfer them -
I use google feed burner for all of my subscriptions! Will that transfer easily if I map the existing domain to wordpress.com? I do not have jetpack but will install it if necessary. Thank you for the help.
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Hi Lucy,
We can only transfer followers who have signed up using the Follow options in Jetpack.
For other blog followers, your best bet is to post an update that directs your followers to your new WordPress.com site.
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