Transfering a blog

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  gath06 · Member · Jun 15, 2013 at 9:25 am

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  Hi,

  I am getting extremely stressed and confused. I have built a wordpress blog with wordpress. I am wanting to move my blog to another server (godaddy.com). I had to set another wordpress account up with GoDaddy.

  I have tried to transfer through wordpress and gone through all the steps, however it says I can not transfer to that account or username (the wordpress account I have set up with GoDaddy) Its the big red warning box that says once you have transferred the blog you will lose ownership ect.

  It says before the transfer is complete they will email me, however I get no email come through as it says I can not transfer to that user.

  So super confused. Do wordpress have a contact number/help line you can ring them on?

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

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  timethief · Member · Jun 15, 2013 at 8:56 pm

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  I’ll tag this thread for Staff assistance. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 15, 2013 at 8:57 pm

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  How many username accounts do you have and which one are you logged in under? You must be logged in under exact same username account that registered the blog and who is the Admin of the blog to access it.

  Clicking this link should display all your blogs registered under the same username, including the hidden ones: https://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs&show=hidden

  If you do not see the blog here http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/ then
  follow this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/#my-blogs-dashboard-visibility

  If you have lost your log-in information you can visit https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
  If required click the “Need More Help” link and complete the form for account recovery.

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 15, 2013 at 9:10 pm

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  If you are trying to move your blog and content from WordPress.COM to Godaddy – you buy hosting from Godaddy and set up a custom domain name for that account at Godaddy and install the WordPress.ORG software

  Then you export the content from here and import the content to the Godaddy blog –

  you can’t transfer the whole blog to Godaddy like a blog can be transferred to another account

  You can transfer a custom domain name to another Registrar but it is not necessary as the name servers can be changed to the new host

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 16, 2013 at 2:55 am

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  Hi there and sorry you are having problems. This support document on moving to .org explains the basic process: http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org

  You may want to consider our guided transfer where we take care of all the work of moving your site over to your web host for you and then hand you the keys to your shiny new WordPress.org blog. You can find out more about our guided transfer here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/

  I hope that helps, and let us know if you have any further questions.