Moving to self hosted
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I’m considering going self-hosted so that I can expand my blog and possibly monetize. My question is – will I lose my WP followers? Will I fail to appear on their reader list? Last question, is there a url direction service so that visitors who go to the wordpress.com site would be redirected to the self hosted site?
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My question is – will I lose my WP followers?
No the email susbcribers can be transferred http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/
Will I fail to appear on their reader list?
They can enter your new URL here to follow your blog http://wordpress.com/following/edit/
Last question, is there a url direction service so that visitors who go to the wordpress.com site would be redirected to the self hosted site?
Yes see 4. below.
WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate.
http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ That means that your posts in the new WordPress.ORG install will not be appearing automatically in the WordPres.COM Reader and on the WordPress.COM Topics (Tags and Categories) pages, because you new site will not be a member of the WordPress.COM community. Here is a summary of the moving process and what it involves:1. Hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/
2. Set up a WordPress.org install and equip it with a theme and plugins.
http://wordpress.org/themes/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/3. Export your content out of your WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the install.
4. Purchase a site redirect upgrade from wordpress.com
http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ or if you have domain mapping then update the nameservers http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-management/5. Transfer subscribers and stats. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/
6. Set your wordpress.com blog visibility to private. To change blog visibility to private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
Alternatively you can purchase a Guided Transfer and Staff will do the move and set up for you http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/
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NOTE: WordPress.com and WordPress.org have different log-ins and run different versions of themes with same names. If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.
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