Transferring WordPress Subscribers to Self Hosted Blog

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  sethadamsmith · Member · Sep 30, 2013 at 5:02 pm

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  Hello! I’ve just transferred my WordPress.com website (www.ForwardWalking.com) to a self-hosting service.

  I’ve installed Jetpack on the self-hosted site, but I haven’t been able to transfer the 1,000+ subscribers from WordPress to the new site (which still uses the WordPress platform). How do I do this?

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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 30, 2013 at 8:06 pm

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  As you have installed and activated the JetPack plugin http://jetpack.me on your WordPress.org install, and you posted the relevant URL(s) into a forum thread, Staff will do the transfer of both subscribers and stats for you. I tagged this thread for their assistance. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Oct 6, 2013 at 8:02 pm

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  I can help you with that. At the moment, I’m seeing jetpack connected to http://litstone.com/domains/forwardwalking/ is that your final URL for that site? Or is it a temp or development URL?

  Before transfering your followers, you need have your site connected to jetpack at its final location.

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  sethadamsmith · Member · Oct 6, 2013 at 10:52 pm

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  Thank you! We just BARELY got it transferred to the new host (as in, within the last hour). So I believe that if you were to go to ForwardWalking.com right now you would see it at its final location.

  Would you still be able to help with the subscribers/followers?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Oct 7, 2013 at 6:02 pm

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  I’m seeing two jetpack connected sites.

  1: http://litstone.com/domains/forwardwalking/
  2: http://brushfiresofliberty.com

  So you may need to disconnect and reconnect to ForwardWalking.com if that is what you are going to use.

  Let me know.

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  sethadamsmith · Member · Oct 7, 2013 at 6:26 pm

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  So I just disconnected and reconnected ForwardWalking.com. Did that help?

  I’m also going to delete that brushfiresofliberty.com site.

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  sethadamsmith · Member · Oct 7, 2013 at 11:07 pm

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  Any luck? :)

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Oct 8, 2013 at 4:13 am

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  That did it.

  I have migrated your subscribers and followers to your new site.

  Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with.

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  sethadamsmith · Member · Oct 8, 2013 at 4:36 am

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  Sweet!!! Thanks! Does it take a while for the subscribers, followers and statistics to all show on the blog?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Oct 9, 2013 at 4:46 am

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  We’ve run across an issue with the cache not updating that info accurately. The subscribers are there, they just aren’t showing. The dev team is working on it and last I heard, things should be going back to normal. Let me know if they are not for you.