Transferring WP followers across to Mailchimp

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  yourhealthyourlife · Member · Apr 28, 2014 at 8:45 pm

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  Hello,

  Hi, I have just had my site redesigned and built, which has also involved it being moved off wordpress.com onto wordpress.org… I want to move my blog subscribers across to make sure I don’t lose them. I had asked about this a couple of months ago and one of your staff staid that you would be able to help me transfer the list once the new site was up and I had installed jetpack. Have done both those things and would greatly appreciate your help now please! The wordpress blog was / is yourhealthyourlife.wordpress.com (I have it mapping through the website currently) and the website is kathleenmurphy.com.au

  Thanks so much!
  Kathleen

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  timethief · Member · Apr 28, 2014 at 8:47 pm

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  There is no means of transferring subscribers from WordPress.com subscriptions to Mailchimp.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 28, 2014 at 8:48 pm

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  You received an answer from Staff on that here Feb 11, 2014, 8:20 PM https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transferring-wp-followers-across-to-mailchimp?replies=4#post-1646043

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  timethief · Member · Apr 28, 2014 at 8:50 pm

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  re: transferring WordPress.com subscribers to WordPress.org
  Provided you have installed and activated the JetPack plugin http://jetpack.me on your WordPress.org install, and you post the relevant URL(s) into a forum thread, Staff will do the transfer of both subscribers and stats for you. Do that now please as I have tagged this thread for their attention.

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  yourhealthyourlife · Member · May 8, 2014 at 6:56 am

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  Hi Timethief,

  Thanks for responding – I didn’t know how to notify the staff as the previous post (with response) had been closed by WordPress.

  My wordpress.com account was/is http://www.yourhealthyourlife.wordpress.com and the ‘new’ site is http://www.kathleenmurphy.com.au

  Thanks again,
  Kathleen

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  jackiedana · Member · May 8, 2014 at 7:10 am

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  You can actually do your own migration, assuming you have Jetpack installed and connected to the same account as your WordPress.com site. For more information, please see
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/migrating-wordpresscom-followers-to-new-self-hosted-site?replies=1

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  yourhealthyourlife · Member · May 11, 2014 at 3:52 am

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  Hi Jackiedana,
  Thanks for the info, I’ve did the migration process according to the instructions in the link you sent through and it’s gone through successfully.
  Are you able to advise whether I am able to stop the email subscribers from being notified – i.e. emailed – each time I publish a post? With the new website I’ve set up a Mailchimp account and e-newsletter campaign which emails a summary of posts every 1-2 weeks. I already extracted the WordPress email subscribers into Mailchimp, so they are on that e-newsletter list… I’m wondering how to prevent that doubling up? Any advice?
  Thanks,
  Kathleen

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  jackiedana · Member · May 12, 2014 at 4:39 pm

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  The whole point of following a site is to receive notifications. You can let people know that if they subscribe to the Mailchimp newsletter they may wish to remove themselves as a follower on your site.

  For more information on Jetpack subscriptions, see:
  http://jetpack.me/support/subscriptions/

  You can also turn off that module:
  http://jetpack.me/support/activate-and-deactivate-modules/