WordPress.com to .com any way back?

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  miltonline · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 11:58 am

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  Okay so I was registered with wordpress.com and had the site miltonline.wordpress.com I then saw that miltonline.com was available and bought the site (through fast hosts), installed wordpress on it and have since built a nice wp site there. However I’ve since realised that wordpress offer .com names and I could have been miltonline.com (for less) all along. What is my pathway back (if any)? Should I erase content from miltonline.wordpress.com? Export the content from miltonline.com, upload to wordpress then stop hosting with fast hosts and get wp to register the name. It makes me tired just to type it. Any help appreciated!

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  hfzrhmn · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 12:06 pm

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  While migrating can be done, have a look at the difference between .org and .com first: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  One thing is that the current theme on miltonline.com is not available on WordPress.com, so if you do migrate here you will have to change to another theme, which might not be desirable.

  There can be other considerations too depending on your use cases.

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  tandava108 · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 12:12 pm

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  If you do decide to move to .com (with a different theme) then the basic path is:

  1. Create a wordpress.com blog
  2. Export from your .com blog.
  3. Import into your WordPress.com blog
  4. map your existing domain to the WordPress.com blog
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  tandava108 · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 12:13 pm

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  I meant to link “import” too, details are ar http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/

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  miltonline · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 12:16 pm

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  Thanks for the quick and helpful replies! So appreciated. I may as a path of least resistance annihilate my miltonline.wordpress.com site and commit to miltonline.com – I understand that there are other flexibilities (beyond themes) which I may need. Thanks again.

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  miltonline · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 12:17 pm

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  It was the ‘never have this address again thing’ which gave me pause.

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  tandava108 · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 12:41 pm

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  If unsure make your wordpress.com blog private rather than deleting it. That way if you change yor mind you can get it back!

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 12:45 pm

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  In order to have a site here with a custom domain name, it has to have an underlying WordPress.com address. So no need to annihilate the existing WordPress.com site, just empty it of its existing content before importing your org content.

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  miltonline · Member · Jan 21, 2014 at 12:49 pm

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  You guys are wonderful. Thanks. I’ve made the wp.com site private to defer the decision of the ultimate annihilation. And I may make my way back home in the future, thanks so much.