WordPress, where they want to steal posts. What a useless group.

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  byronjdkerr · Member · Mar 21, 2014 at 3:02 pm

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  I would like to transfer my blog from wordpress to my own site on another host, and do not really want to lose the past 3 1/2 years of posts; however, I find the ‘one time transfer fee of $129US’ more than steep.

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 21, 2014 at 3:56 pm

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  The $ 129.- is if you have the staff move your blog for you.

  You can move the blog yourself if you want, no charge just your time.

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

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  timethief · Member · Mar 21, 2014 at 5:13 pm

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  The DIY move is not that formidable. To move your content you need to create an XML export file of your content. It will not include the theme or text widget content as they cannot be exported. See 3 below.

  WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate.
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  1. Hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/

  2. Set up a WordPress.org install and equip it with a theme and plugins.
  http://wordpress.org/themes/
  http://wordpress.org/plugins/

  3. Export your content out of your WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the install.

  4. Purchase a site redirect upgrade from wordpress.com
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ or if you have domain mapping then update the nameservers http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-management/

  5. Transfer subscribers and stats. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/

  6. Set your wordpress.com blog visibility to private. To change blog visibility to private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  NOTE: WordPress.com and WordPress.org have different log-ins and run different versions of themes with same names. If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.