Moving my stats to a self hosted blog
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Hi,
I am in the process of migrating over to a self hosted site, I will be paying to get my traffic transferred but I can’t see anyway of transferring my stats.I was made to believe this is possible, but I’m guessing WordPress would have to do this? Is this true?
The new site is mami2five.comKatie
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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It can be done. However permalink structure between your old and new sites must match. That means that the URL for a older post that appears on your old site and new site must match exactly.
If they do not, stats cannot be transferred.
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Okay thanks. I have to be honest, I’m not particularly computer savvy so I shall have to look into that I guess lol
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Here’s a quick way to understand this. In every WordPress.com blog URL there is an embedded date of publication like this:
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/06/24/blog-abandonment-is-not-your-only-choice/If you change that URL structure to eliminate that embedded date of publication in the post URLs to another format then the stats cannot be transferred.
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Right, I think I understand lol So if I’ve never fiddled with anything, the stats should be able to be transferred. I wouldn’t have a clue how to do that and I doubt it’s something I could have done accidentally :)
I have sent a request for my stats to be transferred over so fingers crossed.
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I am not convinced that you are getting this. Please examine any post URL on your new self hosted blog. If it is not exactly the same format as the URL in the WordPress.COM blog then the stats cannot be transferred.
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You right, I wasn’t getting it!
I do see what you mean now. It isn’t the same, I’m hoping there may be a way to alter this? Even if there is I wonder if I’d be able to do it anyway lol. I shall look into plugins now.
Thank you ever so much for bearing with me :) -
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Yay, I’ve sorted it.
Thank you for being patient with me. I have serious case of baby brain and I’m running on very little sleep at the moment so straight thinking isn’t my strongpoint lolThanks again :)
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Yay! I knew you could do it. :) Now all you need to do is be patient while waiting for rootjosh to get back to this thread and move your stats.
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I have serious case of baby brain and I’m running on very little sleep at the moment
Oof, I’ve been there.
Yay, I’ve sorted it.
Does this mean that the URLs of posts on your old WordPress.com site and your new self-hosted WordPress.org site match?
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All is good now, my stats have been transferred. Plus I got a few hours extra sleep lol.
Thank you
Katie :) -
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