Transfer followers via jetpack

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  mitchhhs · Member · May 25, 2015 at 6:04 pm

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  Hi,

  I have migrated my blog to a self hosted wordpress.org site. My site is mitchkirby.com. Ihave been able to transfer my email subscribers, but I wanted to also transfer my blog subscribers from wordpress.com. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks,
  Mitch

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

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  rachelmcr · Member · May 26, 2015 at 12:20 pm

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  Hi Mitch,

  I’d be happy to help transfer your subscribers over to your new blog. Before I do, though, I want to clarify one thing that will change after that transfer:

  WordPress.com users subscribed to your blog will continue to see your new posts in the Reader but won’t receive email updates automatically anymore. If your WordPress.com subscribers would like to receive email updates, as well, they can subscribe via email on your new blog. Some blog owners like to post one last update on their WordPress.com blog to let all their subscribers know how to subscribe via email if they’d like to do that, before transferring them to the new blog.

  Please let me know if you have any questions about that! If you’re ready for me to transfer your subscribers over now, just let me know and I’ll take care of that for you. :)

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  mitchhhs · Member · May 26, 2015 at 2:33 pm

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  Hi,

  Thank you for the response. You can go ahead and transfer the subscribers. Thank you for your help!

  Mitch

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  rachelmcr · Member · May 26, 2015 at 4:49 pm

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  Hi Mitch,

  Thanks for confirming! I just finished transferring your subscribers over to your self-hosted site, so you’re all set there. Please let me know if I can do anything more to help with that. :)

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  mitchhhs · Member · May 27, 2015 at 8:45 pm

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  Hi,

  The transfer worked, but I noticed that it seems like some people are still following my old site, but not my new one? Is this the case? How is this possible?

  Thanks for your help!
  Mitch

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  rachelmcr · Member · May 28, 2015 at 9:19 am

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  Hi Mitch,

  I see what you mean. Since your old WordPress.com site is still public, your blog posts on that site can still be seen in the WordPress.com Reader. (So people can still find your posts there and follow your old site that way, even though they’ll get to your new site if they follow the link from the Reader to the site itself.)

  You can avoid that by setting your old site to private in the site’s General Settings. Under “Site Visibility” there you can select “I would like my site to be private, visible only to users I choose.” That will make any posts on your old site private, to avoid getting new followers there.

  Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)

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  mitchhhs · Member · May 28, 2015 at 10:57 pm

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  Awesome thanks so much for the help! One last thing, it looks like 30 or so more people followed the old blog. Would it be possible to get these users transferred over to the new site?

  Thanks so much!

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  rachelmcr · Member · May 29, 2015 at 9:34 am

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  Hi Mitch,

  Absolutely! I transferred those followers over to your new blog, and since the old blog is now private that should take care of it for you. If you run into any other oddities or have other questions, just let me know. :)

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  mitchhhs · Member · Jun 3, 2015 at 9:35 pm

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  Sorry to be a pain, but I wanted to keep getting followers through wordpress.com so I kept it open and will periodically transfer the followers. Would it be possible to transfer the remaining followers again. Is there really no easier way to do this? Thanks so much for your help!

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jun 4, 2015 at 9:31 am

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  Hi there,

  You can actually transfer your followers yourself, using our subscription migration tool. (I didn’t want to make you go through that for a one-time transfer, since you had already gotten in touch and I could take care of it for you, but that tool is much better if you’d like to periodically transfer your followers over.)

  Please give that tool a try and let me know how it goes. :)

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  mitchhhs · Member · Jun 4, 2015 at 3:03 pm

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  Hi,

  I tried to follow the tutorial, but for some reason there is not an option under my settings page to migrate my followers. I tried to do exactly what the tutorial said, but cannot get that option to display. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  Best,
  Mitch

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jun 5, 2015 at 10:05 am

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  Hi Mitch,

  Sorry about that! We’re working out an issue where that option doesn’t show up if you have the same domain name linked to both your WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress sites.

  For now, you can get around that by heading to your My Blogs page here:

  https://mitchkirby.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs

  Next to your mitchkirby.wordpress.com site, you can click the checkbox and then select “Hide Blog on Dashboard” from the dropdown menu above it. Click the “Apply” button and that WordPress.com site and its settings will be hidden from your My Sites dashboard at https://wordpress.com/.

  That way, you can head to your self-hosted site’s settings at https://wordpress.com/settings/general/mitchkirby.com to transfer your followers.

  Let me know if you have questions about that!