paid plans, filesize to import from self-hosted wordpress and multi-site

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  sparklanguages · Member · Dec 27, 2014 at 4:01 am

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  hi folks, we have decided to give a try to the wordpress.com service to host a site that was previously self-hosted and have a few of questions.

  1 – is there an option for paid plan with 2 or 3 sites (independent domains) or do we need to get a separate paid account for each site?

  2- the exported xml file of the biggest site is about 23mb, but it looks like the free site only allows an import file up to 15mb. is this limit removed for paid plans? how do you go about ‘cleaning’ the file with what is not needed? (i.e. lots of comments, and variations of posts in other languages)

  2 – in the self-hosted we used the WPML plugin to manage multiple languages: what are the options if we move on wordpress.com?

  many thanks for your inputs!
  Lorenzo

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  timethief · Member · Dec 27, 2014 at 4:07 am

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  1 – is there an option for paid plan with 2 or 3 sites (independent domains) or do we need to get a separate paid account for each site?

  There are no bulk deals. The upgrades each apply to a single blog for a single year when they are due to be renewed.

  WordPress.com provides free blogs and hosts them free of charge. There are no bandwidth charges. All WordPress.com blogs come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images. Free features are listed here https://en.wordpress.com/features/

  See here for details of all 3 plans http://store.wordpress.com/bundles/ offered by WordPress.com.

  Premium bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/
  Business bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/business/

  You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard and purchase upgrades at > Store > My Upgrades
  Your billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History
  Your options for payment are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/

  Note that the free plan and the Premium plan do not allow you to upload your own themes or plugins. WordPress.com blogs cannot be equipped for eCommerce transactions unless they have the $299. per year Business upgrade. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ecommerce-is-now-available-on-wordpresscom?replies=1
  See here for ecommerce details http://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/

  – the exported xml file of the biggest site is about 23mb, but it looks like the free site only allows an import file up to 15mb. is this limit removed for paid plans?

  No

  in the self-hosted we used the WPML plugin to manage multiple languages: what are the options if we move on wordpress.com?

  You can set only one interface languages at > Dashboard > Settings > General.

  We do not have FTP access and we bloggers cannot install any plugins, we cannot use Microsoft or Google translation widgets or any others, as they are JavaScript and it’s stripped out to preserve security on this multiuser blogging platform. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#javascript

  However, I have translation on my WordPress.com blogs. There are two workarounds and you will find them here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/02/14/translation-widget-for-wordpress-com-blogs/
  Note: You can copy and paste the code on my Translations page and then replace every occurrence of my blog’s URL in the code with your own blog’s URL.

  If you are bilingual or multilingual and want to publish your free hosted WordPress.com in two or more languages but do not want to rely on machine translation that can be done see here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/02/25/wordpress-com-multilingual-blogs/

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  sparklanguages · Member · Dec 27, 2014 at 4:45 am

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  thank you very much for the very prompt and detailed response.

  i guess that the most important thing is the limit in the upload size for the exported site; have you got any suggestion? at the moment i guess that the only way is to delete stuff on the source site and hope for the best?

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  auxclass · Member · Dec 27, 2014 at 4:57 am

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  export and import in smaller sections – use categories to help break things up into bite sized pieces