Transferred to self-hosting

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  miniie · Member · Feb 27, 2014 at 8:28 pm

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  I started my blog on urbanbreakout.wordpress.com. I was slowly getting more traffic and so i decided to transfer to private hosting. I followed the instructions and exported the blog. Everything seems to be transferred over, except the theme.. I even connected my blog through WordPress connect plug-in..

  However, the wordpress.com blog never updates any posts. I’m nervous about losing followers because one person asked me why they don’t get any notifications. I wonder if my followers are getting notifications of my posts and whether or not my wordpress.com site is supposed to update when i update my blog via wordpress.org, if its connected?

  I’m confused and also new to this. It’s very frustrating and i don’t understand.
  Please help

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Mar 3, 2014 at 8:45 pm

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  Hi Mari!

  Regarding the theme, that will not transfer over via the Jetpack plugin or through exporting/importing your content. If you would like to install the Origin theme on your self-hosted blog, you can do so by downloading it from the right sidebar here:

  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/origin/

  Once you download the theme, just upload it to your self-hosted blog.

  Regarding the updates, your WordPress.com blog will not be automatically updated when you publish to your self-hosted blog. The two blogs are distinctly different. The Jetpack plugin simply connects your self-hosted blog to your WordPress.com account (not to a blog). Does that make sense?

  All of your subscribers have been transferred to your self-hosted blog, urbanbreakout.org, and can be seen here:

  http://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog=60835083&blog_subscribers&unit=1

  However, all of your subscribers are through the WordPress.com reader, not through email, which may explain why they are not receiving updates as usual. This is explained in Step #3 here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/

  The best solution forward:

  1. Post another blog post to your WordPress.com blog letting them know that you have officially moved and all new posts can be found on your self-hosted blog.

  2. Ask everyone in that post to sign-up for email notifications from your self-hosted blog using either the Subscription widget or setting up your own mailing list through a mailing list software like Mailchimp.

  Does that make sense? Please let me know if you have any additional questions!