Transfer from WordPress.com to WordPress.org

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  cisealvta · Member · Mar 16, 2011 at 6:18 am

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  How do I transfer my wordpress.com blog to wordpress.org? Thank you!

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

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  cisealvta · Member · Mar 16, 2011 at 6:21 am

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  my blog is located at http://www.sharingthegoods.com

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 16, 2011 at 6:58 am

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  Here are the instructions:

  Export Your Website’s Content

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  savinsomecash · Member · Mar 21, 2011 at 6:10 pm

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  Why would one want to do this?

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 21, 2011 at 6:15 pm

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  You want to get paid for your reviews or pimping for places or other sites, put ads on a site – or other violations of the Terms of Service.

  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

  http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 21, 2011 at 6:16 pm

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  Maybe one wants the added freedom of plugins and tens of thousands of themes to choose from.

  Maybe one wants to do advertising.

  Maybe the direction that one wants to take their blog will violate the terms of service here.

  The list goes on.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 21, 2011 at 6:18 pm

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  G’day @auxclass.

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 21, 2011 at 6:32 pm

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  Morning @thesacredpath

  Also good points you made.

  My needs for my site are pretty basic so I forget about the Plug-in’s thing and am quite thrilled that we have all those super Widgets here that I don’t need to think much about.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 21, 2011 at 6:37 pm

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  The primary reason bloggers move their content to a WordPress.org install is so they can make money from advertising. In fact few make any more than what’s required for their domain costs and web hosting costs.

  The second most prevalent reason bloggers choose to move their content to a wordpress.org install is so they have complete control over their site and can hack the template and edit the theme.

  One can choose the do-it-yourself approach to making the move > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/11/06/setting-up-a-self-hosted-wordpress-org-install/

  One can pay Staff to make the move > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/guided-transfers/