Moving my subscribers over to WordPress.org

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  obscurehandhelds · Member · May 7, 2013 at 6:20 pm

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  Hi there,

  I’ve moved over to .org using the export function. Most things seemed to work OK, but some didn’t.

  The biggest worry at the moment is that my email subscribers weren’t moved over. The folks at wordpress.org said someone would be able to help me with this here, so here I am asking for help.

  The blog my subscribers need moving from:
  obscurehandhelds.wordpress.com

  to:
  obscurehandhelds.com

  Thank you very much! :)

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 7, 2013 at 6:22 pm

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  Staff can do this after you install and activate the JetPack plugin. Do that now please as I tagged this thread for their attention.

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  obscurehandhelds · Member · May 7, 2013 at 6:24 pm

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  Thanks for the lightning fast reply, I have installed, activated and authorised JetPack on my wordpress site.

  Cheers! ;-)

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  timethief · Member · May 7, 2013 at 6:26 pm

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  Cool … hang in there and subscribe to the thread so you are notified when Staff get it it.

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  kevkoeh · Member · May 7, 2013 at 7:05 pm

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  No problem. I’ve now transferred all your email and WordPress.com followers over to your new JetPack-enhanced site at obscurehandhelds.com.

  It may be a couple hours before you can see them on your new stats page, but it usually takes much less time than that. Reply back here to let me know if they don’t show up soon.

  Happy blogging!

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  obscurehandhelds · Member · May 7, 2013 at 9:12 pm

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  Thanks kevkoeh, there are still no subscriber email addresses listed under subscribers in my Control Panel though. I’ll check again in the morning anyway.

  Cheers
  Alex

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  kevkoeh · Member · May 8, 2013 at 4:24 am

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  I see the transferred subscribers on your stats page now. Can you see them?

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  obscurehandhelds · Member · May 8, 2013 at 7:29 am

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  Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place, bit under the subscribers tab there is only 1 new email address.

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  obscurehandhelds · Member · May 8, 2013 at 4:37 pm

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  Hi

  This is what my subscribers page looks like on my new blog at wordpress.org

  

  There should be around 130 subscribers (a mixture of email and wordpress.com) in total. Logging in to my old wordpress.com I can see that all of my email followers have been deleted, and there are still 24 wordpress followers remaining.

  I think something has gone wrong with the transfer, please can you double check it and let me know if I’m interpreting it incorrectly?

  Thanks
  Alex

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  kevkoeh · Member · May 8, 2013 at 5:38 pm

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  Hey Alex, Thanks for the screenshot! I was just about to ask for one.

  Take a look in your site’s Dashboard under Jetpack -> Site Stats, if you would please. That’s where you should see your WordPress.com followers. The “Subscriptions” tab is for something else on your .org site.

  I can’t log in to your .org site’s dashboard to see what you see, but from our end it looks like you have a total of 150 followers on obscurehandhelds.com through Jetpack right now.

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  obscurehandhelds · Member · May 8, 2013 at 5:42 pm

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  Ah kevkoeh! Turns out I am a dimwit! Yes, they’re all showing there – I was looking in the wrong place after all.

  Thanks very much for your help :)

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  kevkoeh · Member · May 8, 2013 at 5:44 pm

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  No worries! In the future I’ll try to make more clear where the “new stats page” is. I’m glad they all got transferred safe and sound.