Transfer to new website!

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  miss5ugarn5pice · Member · Apr 20, 2014 at 3:42 pm

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  Hello! I have not yet purchased a domain name yet…. so I still have a free domain. What I want to know is, that I’m purchasing hosting AND domain name(which comes free with hosting) from another service. How to transfer material and followers to my new website from my free WordPress blog? Thankyou!! :)

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  timethief · Member · Apr 20, 2014 at 10:03 pm

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  How to transfer material and followers to my new website from my free WordPress blog?

  To move your content you need to create an XML export file of your content. It will not include the theme as they cannot be exported. See 3 below.

  WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate.
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  1. Hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/

  2. Set up a WordPress.org install and equip it with a theme and plugins.
  http://wordpress.org/themes/
  http://wordpress.org/plugins/

  3. Export your content out of your WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the install.

  4. Purchase a site redirect upgrade from wordpress.com
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ or if you have domain mapping then update the nameservers http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-management/

  5. Transfer subscribers and stats. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/

  6. Set your wordpress.com blog visibility to private. To change blog visibility to private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  Alternatively you can purchase a Guided Transfer and Staff will do the move and set up for you http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/

  NOTE: WordPress.com and WordPress.org have different log-ins and run different versions of themes with same names. If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.

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  miss5ugarn5pice · Member · Apr 21, 2014 at 10:47 am

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  thankyou so much Timethief!! that was precisely what I wanted to know :)