Regarding Migration To Self-Hosted WordPress Blog

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  anjanadev · Member · Sep 9, 2015 at 5:01 pm

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  Hi,
  I have a free WordPress blog (https://happyandharried.wordpress.com/). I bought a paid domain hosted by Bluehost on 6th Sept 2015. I have registered my new website as https://happyandharried.com/
  I have followed the instructions by WordPress on Export-Import and it has worked out well. I have a few queries before I can make my new website fully operational.

  My old wordpress.com site is still receiving comments and followers. Can I do a final export-import of the latest file to reflect these in the new website, before I make it go live? I have edited some posts (mainly Featured Images, to improve aesthetics) in my new website. Will doing another export-import overwrite those edits?

  Thanks,
  Anjana.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 10, 2015 at 9:55 am

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  My old wordpress.com site is still receiving comments and followers. Can I do a final export-import of the latest file to reflect these in the new website, before I make it go live?

  You can export content at any time and import it to your self-hosted site. Any new imports will be merged with the content that’s already there.

  Will doing another export-import overwrite those edits?

  As far as I know, if the importer sees a post with the same URL, it won’t import that post again (that’s how it works if importing between two .com sites), but perhaps make a backup of your edited posts by copying their html from the text editor view into a text file before importing.

  I think the WordPress.org forum’s people will be able to confirm exactly how it works on that side. http://wordpress.org/support/

  Note you can also move your subscribers across, if you haven’t already. Just install the Jetpack plugin and follow the instructions here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/