Switching from Weebly to WordPress
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Hi Everyone, I am hoping someone can help me … I purchased a damin name with Weebly, and find their blogging platform so hard to use. I want to go back to WordPress because I found it easy to use, but the communication between WordPress and their customers is very bad. (Seriously, I shouldn’t have to search the site for 20 minutes, only to be led to a public forum) Anyways, I have unlocked my domain name from Weebly, and got an EPP code, which I am now supposed to give to WordPress. I have a wordpress account (http://girlmetblush.wordpress.com) and the domain name is http://www.girlmetblush.com So I am hoping to be able to keep all of the older posts that are on the wordpress account. Can someone please help me out and let me know where to start?
Thanks so much!
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Greetings girlmetblush,
Welcome back to WordPress! :)
To point your existing domain – http://www.girlmetblush.com, to your WordPress blog, you need not transfer it from Weebly to WordPress using the EPP code that you’ve got from Weebly. (Actually, WordPress does not support incoming transfers at the moment either). Transferring would anyway be redundant, cause as I can see from your DNS records, your domain is renewed till 2016. Also, please note that domain mapping to a WordPress.com website is a paid upgrade. It’s going to cost you $13 per year.
To map your domain to your blog, please follow these instructions:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/I hope the instructions are clear. As mentioned in this codex article, you need to update the ‘nameservers’ in your Weebly domain as well. Weebly also has a knowledgebase article that will walk you through changing your nameservers to the ones that WordPress requires.
Once the nameservers are updated, your domain would be pointing to your WordPress blog in usually 24 hours or so, in most cases.
Happy Blogging! :) Do let me know if you need any further support.
Cheers!
Hari. -
Hari is correct that we do not accept incoming domain transfers. There’s no need to transfer using an EPP code, just keep the domain registered with Weebly. You’ll need to change the domain’s name servers though:
http://hc.weebly.com/hc/en-us/articles/201184656-Manage-Nameserver-Records
Those are Weebly’s instructions for step #3 in this guide to mapping an outside domain to WordPress.com:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
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@alexjgustasfson:
Thank you for the prompt reply, and the link to the Weebly knowledgebase article on changing nameservers. :) -
Okay so $13 a year is fine, I actually think I’ll do the $99 bundle, as I intend to have video on the site as well. My question is, when I edit the site one its mapped, will I be working with WordPress or weebly? I find weebly very hard to use, and WordPress very easy. So I want to be editing and posting using the WordPress app/website. Also, will I still be charged annually from Weebly for the website? If I am paying $99 to you guys, I don’t want to pay weebly as well… Thanks for any information!
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My question is, when I edit the site one its mapped, will I be working with WordPress or weebly?
You’d be working entirely with WordPress. Which means you can edit and post using the WordPress app/website as you choose.
Also, will I still be charged annually from Weebly for the website?
You won’t be charged until 2016. Thereafter you’d have to renew your domain though, through Weebly. You cannot transfer the domain to WordPress, but you may do so to another web host that you choose, if you want to do so. Just make sure that the nameservers remain intact.
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You are super helpful :) okay, last question…. If I let the domain name expire and not renew it in January 2016 with Weebly, will the domain name become available for purchase again? Ideally I would be purchasing my domain through WordPress, and could do everything through you guys without a separate payment to a third party.
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You should keep the domain renewed. If it expires at Weebly, it will go through a similar domain expiration process as our own. It’s lengthy and messy, and there’s no guarantee you’ll get it back:
If you don’t want to keep renewing the domain at Weebly, you can use the transfer process (the EPP code) to transfer it to another domain registrar (like GoDaddy, Tucows, etc) instead, but you’ll keep mapping it to WordPress.com the same way.
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alexjgustafason just spoke what I was about to say… Thank you… :)
girlmetblush, hope this answers your question. :)
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Okay, so it’s possible to transfer the domain to godaddy and then transfer everything over to WordPress? That might be worth it for me, I like the idea of having everything in one place and not paying two fees to two seperate companies.
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If you transfer it to GoDaddy, you’ll still need to keep renewing the domain at GoDaddy and then mapping it to WordPress.com. We can’t accept incoming domain transfers.
So that domain transfer, using the EPP code, is really just a matter of who you prefer to pay, or whose domain management tools you prefer.
I wish I could accept the domain transfer so you could manage it all here, but it’s not technically possible.
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