Transferring Blog From WordPress.com to WordPress.org

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  boundlessvoyage · Member · Jul 31, 2013 at 12:00 am

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  Hi,
  Recently me and my business partner registered for a private domain on WordPress.com. Because of this, we thought we’d download the whole software from WordPress.org so we could host our own website and do what we please with it.
  We have made an account, transferred all of our content but we still aren’t linked to our domain. We would like to be able to customize the blog we already have on WordPress.org.
  We also have two computers with the same software downloaded so we would like to use it on both to manage our blog.
  Thanks, Elliott and Sam

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jul 31, 2013 at 12:17 pm

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  Hi Elliott and Sam,

  You can read about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  To get started with a WordPress.org site, you will need to have a website hosting provider. We have a list of recommended website hosts for WordPress.org here: http://get.wp.com/hosting/

  Once you have a website host, you can use this guide to use your custom domain with that host: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/move-domain/

  If you’’d like assistance moving your WordPress.com blog to WordPress.org, we have a service called Guided Transfer that does all the work for you. Check it out to see if it’s right for you:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/

  Please let me know if you have any questions about this!