Written on January 3rd, 2009 at 12:01 am by Jeff Chandler
How To – Move From WordPress.com To WordPress.org
Moving a Blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org is something I’ve had a lot of questions about – today Jeff Chandler shares tips on how to do it.
Everyday it seems like I find a story or two from a cities local online newspaper which delves into the topic of blogging and what it’s all about. The story usually goes through a mini backlog of history surrounding the term, what blogging is and at the end of the article, there is usually a list of suggestions on how to get started with the most popular suggestion being WordPress.com. Using WordPress.com is a great way to introduce yourself to blogging but if you decide that you want to turn blogging into a full time job or just want more control over your work, you’ll need to move.
Thankfully, the move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org (WordPress.org being the self hosted version of WordPress) is painless thanks in large part to a great export tool.
To start things off, login to your WordPress.com account and browse to your administration panel. From the menu on the left, click on TOOLS – EXPORT. At this point, you have the option to confine the export to a particular author or all authors. Using the export tool will compile your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. This information is placed into a WXR file or, WordPress eXtended RSS file. Essentially, this file is just a normal XML RSS based file with a couple of custom fields added to it which makes it specific to WordPress. Once you’re finished, click on the Download Export File button and save it to your desktop.
Once you have that file on your desktop, you can breath a little easier considering your half way through the content migration process.
The second part of this guide refers to an installation of WordPress 2.7. Login to your self installed WordPress administration panel and from the menu on the left click on TOOLS – IMPORT. From the list of blogging systems click on WordPress. Next, click on the Browse button and locate the XML file you downloaded earlier. This will upload the XML file into your WordPress installation and will unpack all of the data the file contains. There is one caveat though regarding this entire technique.
Most webhosts for whatever reason still have their PHP.ini configured in such a way where end users can only upload files with a maximum file size of 2MB or smaller. Although it takes quite a bit of content in an WXR file to go over 2MB, 2MB is not a lot of head room. If you find yourself in the position where your WXR file is larger than the maximum file size, I highly suggest submitting a trouble ticket to your webhost and asking them to increase the limit. If they choose not to, then ask them if they can import the file for you. If that doesn’t work, you can pull a trick from your sleeve by uploading a custom php.ini file to your webhosting accounts root folder. This is what my host did for me and afterwards, I took a look at the php.ini file and noticed it had this line in it:
; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 7M
Apparently, the php.ini file overwrote the settings on the original file and I was able to bump my limit up to 7 Megabytes. This trick is not guaranteed to work. As a last ditch effort, you can also try adding these lines to your .htaccess file. Just replace the pound sign with a number that is above the size of your WXR file.
#set max upload file size
php_value upload_max_filesize #M
#set max post size
php_value post_max_size #M
Once the WXR file is unpacked on your self installed version of WordPress, you’re ready to walk through the gates of freedom without skipping a beat!
P.S. This strategy also works for those wanting to go from WordPress.org to WordPress.com.
Tags: export, import, migration, wordpress, wxr
112 Responses to “How To – Move From WordPress.com To WordPress.org” - Add Yours
wyche128
January 3rd, 2009 1:11 am
Did not even know there was a Wordpress.com & Wordpress.org. I learned something to start off this new year!
Vixel
January 3rd, 2009 1:12 am
I’ve recently made the move and it would have been a lot easier with this article to read! I got there in the end but there’s a lot of not-very-great information out there, but nothing quite as straight-forward as this post!
Landing page templates
January 3rd, 2009 1:14 am
Hah. Strange, i just had that problem with the php.ini file but now i got it to work. Thanks.
Dan Massicotte
January 3rd, 2009 1:34 am
I’m not sure I follow, why would you want to switch to the .org version? Don’t you need to invest less time in the .com one? I would think that when you’re making $12,000/month you would want a platform that demands less time.
vivek
January 3rd, 2009 1:49 am
I think the question is not why would anyone switch…
it is if anyone needs to switch then how to do it..
nice article
Farrhad A on Twitter
January 3rd, 2009 1:53 am
This is a great post Jeff , that many will find helpful.
Alex
January 3rd, 2009 1:54 am
One thing is not mentioned here – restore functionality. Once you install your new blog – you might want to install the plugins to replicate the functionality you had with wordpress.com blog and also install the theme you need to ensure your look will be consistent, unless you are going for a new look.
Alex
Archit
January 3rd, 2009 1:54 am
Nice article Jeff!
Blog Expert
January 3rd, 2009 1:54 am
Of course you should switch. I think the free version holds you back from what you can really do with blogging. People are just always overlooking the pros of leaving the free version.
Simon Salt
January 3rd, 2009 2:01 am
I am currently going through this process the twist I have is that I took the offer from Automattic (owners of Wordpress) and registered my domain with them for my blog. Now they are ignoring my requests to release the domain!!! Be very careful using the Free version if you intend to make your blog successful.
Vik Dulat
January 3rd, 2009 2:03 am
Great article. I was looking for just the thing.
Mike Nichols
January 3rd, 2009 2:06 am
Thanks for a great article and a great resource!
I often have need for a WP.com–>WP.org article to point people to, and now I have one!
J.D. Meier
January 3rd, 2009 2:06 am
Very nice write up.
Jeffro2pt0
January 3rd, 2009 2:07 am
I could have added an entire section based on why someone would want to move from one to the other. For starters, you can’t edit your theme on .com unless you pay for that functionality. Also, you can not advertise on your WordPress.com blog so kiss making revenue good bye and last but not least, you can’t upload plugins to add functionality and also, they have disabled javascript from being used in Widgets on WordPress.com meaning your choices of using widgets pretty much goes out the window.
Sarah H.
January 3rd, 2009 2:11 am
I want to transfer my Wordpress.com blog to Wordpess.org eventually, so THANK YOU for this great information!!
David Hobson
January 3rd, 2009 2:26 am
Nice article for those people who are still using the free hosting version of wordpress.
Michael Gass
January 3rd, 2009 2:28 am
Jeff,
This is the best help I’ve found yet. Thanks for sharing. Have a Happy New Year!
Enduring Wanderlust
January 3rd, 2009 2:31 am
It makes a big difference to have your own url and hosting. It costs a few dollars, but it’s worth not having wordpress in the url itself. Looks more professional.
ATLANTA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER
January 3rd, 2009 2:31 am
luckily for me I didn’t have many posts at all on the dotcom site so I just cut and paste. with 2.7 i think it is amazing what they are doing and wordpress is going to be “more” of the standard b/c it’s going to the one that people think when they start one up
Ryan
January 3rd, 2009 2:58 am
Thanks for this. This question comes up probably 2 or 3 times a month on a forum I’m on when someone outgrows their WordPress.com site. Or at least wants to do something with it that can’t be done on the .com version.
Dannie
January 3rd, 2009 3:35 am
Biggest question of all is how to maintain the inbound links you got while you were on wordpress.com. For example if you were on .com for 6 months or so built up inbound links and pagerank. Is there a process for carrying the links over as well?
Brian
January 3rd, 2009 3:57 am
Editing the htaccess file to change the php settings will probably work fine… unless your webhost loads PHP as a CGI executable instead of as an Apache module.
I had to deal with that once, and as I recall a custom php.ini file in the CGI-BIN directory did the trick.
Susan
January 3rd, 2009 4:32 am
Thanks for the info. Any tips for those of us who want to move from Blogger (using a custom domain) to WordPress.com? Maintaining permalinks is what I’m really concerned about.
Susan
January 3rd, 2009 4:33 am
Sorry, I meant Blogger to WordPress.org (not .com).
Khürt Williams
January 3rd, 2009 5:00 am
I recently ( a few months ago ) completed a move from Wordpress.com to a self hosted Wordpress site. It was just as easy as this article suggests.
@Susan. Wordpess has a feature to import content directly from Blogger.com. Read it here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#Blogger
Russel CP
January 3rd, 2009 5:23 am
Very nice stats.
Susan, you can use the Import tool in Wordpress.org 2.7 to import your blogs from blogger to Wordpress.org.
I’d be glad to help you through the process.
Good luck. :-)
RusselCP
http://www.russelcp.com
Smart Boy
January 3rd, 2009 7:35 am
Thank you for the article. Will definitely be forwarding people to this post in the future if someone wants to make the big switch. ;-)
The photos in the post make it easy to understand, and extremely helpful.
Michael Gaudet
January 3rd, 2009 8:07 am
Susan, when I made the switch from Blogger to WordPress (.com in this case, I am switching to .org some six months later) I just left a notice parked on the last post of Blogger with a link to my WP blog. Then I fired up WP and carried on as per usual.
Linda
January 3rd, 2009 8:50 am
I was just wondering how I was going to move my blog from Wordpress to another site so that I could accept advertising and participate in affiliate programs.
I didn’t know about Wordpress.org.
A couple of things about this remain murky to me. First, do I need to register a domain name in order to switch to Wordpress.org?
Is the blog actually then hosted on Wordpress.org or do I still have to have the blog hosted somewhere else?
Shirley
January 3rd, 2009 9:12 am
Great tutorial. Most people are often afraid of making the switch, or don’t think that they can do it themselves. But you’ve made it all seem very manageable. :-)
Hmmm. Good luck with that Susan. I’ve transported from Blogger to WordPress.org, but never to .com… But if I am not mistaken, the export/import file should work pretty much the same…
Shirley
January 3rd, 2009 9:13 am
@Susan, whoops! Yes, Susan, its doable. As for permalinks, they can usually be maintained. WP is very great about setting up just about any permalink structure you’d want.
Bob Morris
January 3rd, 2009 9:59 am
FYI: As a side point, if you are importing a large mySQL file into a new WordPress install, like I just did when moving to a new host, you may find a problem when using phpMyAdmin. It chokes after a certain file size.
There is a script called BigDump that will get around the problem by doing the import one chunk at a time.
http://www.hotscripts.com/review/20922.html
Your way of doing it all through WordPress seems like it would avoid all that, though.
Carrie
January 3rd, 2009 10:01 am
Great post that popped into my Inbox today – timely too, someone asked me about the .com to .org switcheroo this morning (I offer WP blog premium theme customization on as a service). Thanks muchly for the trick-eroo in advance!
Scott Mahler
January 3rd, 2009 10:05 am
wordpress.com is fine for people that want to casually blog, but, as you say, if you really want a professional looking site, wordpress.org is they way to go. It’s the alternative to a regular website, of course being a website developer I recommend going that route. But for people with knowledge in CSS, this is definitly a good option. Of course, you have to have it hosted, so another probelm for some people is the extra cost. Just a few things to think about.
http://www.datexmedia.wordpress.com
cathy
January 3rd, 2009 10:42 am
I have heard of wordpress and also it has better option than blogger.
try it
cathy
tennis camp
Bob Morris
January 3rd, 2009 12:50 pm
From the person who helped me move my WP blog yesterday via phpMyAdmin.
“The WP importer/exporter does posts, comments, categories and tags, but it doesn’t do your Wordpress options, so you have to redo all those”
Don
January 3rd, 2009 12:51 pm
There’s nothing wrong with Wordpress, but if you’re moving to a self-hosted site you may want to check out the other options for content management systems, like joomla or drupal.
Mrs. Accountability
January 3rd, 2009 1:47 pm
I’ve been on Blogger with my own domain name, and seriously considering going to Wordpress. Just learned yesterday that Wordpress.com is hosted by Wordpress. I wasn’t sure what to look for next, so this was a timely post for me (to at least learn that Wordpress.org is where I need to look). Thanks.
Susan
January 3rd, 2009 2:25 pm
Thanks to the other commenters for the Blogger to WP.org conversion tips. Don’t want to veer too far off-topic here, but my concern is the fact that WP and Blogger use different permalink structures. Here’s an example showing the permalink for the same post in WP compared to Blogger:
(WP) …/2008/12/24/preliminary-capital-requests-for-the-schools/
(Blogger) …/2008/12/preliminary-capital-requests-for.html
There are lots of differences: the date format (which I know is customizable in WP), plus Blogger truncates the title and adds .html.
I do a lot of internal linking on my blog. When I use the WP Importer for Blogger, will it update my internal links? Or will the internal links still point to the old (and now broken) Blogger-style permalinks? Anyone have experience with this? Thanks!
darya
January 3rd, 2009 3:51 pm
Thanks, this helps. But how much prep work needs to go into preparing your wordpress.org blog before importing a blog that is currently functioning? For example, if you want a whole new theme on your new site does that need to be built before importing?
aan iskandar
January 3rd, 2009 11:55 pm
nice post, but i would rather stay in wordpress.com, because it takes a lot of budget to transform my blog…but what the hack…thanks for the tips anyway Jeff………
LisaNewton
January 4th, 2009 12:20 am
Not being too much of a techie, I started my blog on Wordpress.com so thankfully, I didn’t have to go through this process.
But, thanks for the great information.
Jim Gray
January 4th, 2009 1:31 am
This is a great article and one that I’ll keep on Del.icio.us
as I am in the process of moving down the road myself.
adsense alternative
January 4th, 2009 3:23 am
i already try it before. But it failed.
Then, i just do it manually.
Maggy
January 4th, 2009 1:00 pm
I just came across your blog about and wanted to drop you a note telling you how impressed I was with the information you have posted here. I also have a web site & blog about advertising/blogging so I know I’m talking about when I say your site is top-notch! Keep up the great work, you are providing a great resource on the Internet here!
sony
January 4th, 2009 2:04 pm
i have moved from blogspot to wp.org, for that i have exported all my posts to wordpress.com blog then to wp.org blog, if we directly upload it from blogspot to wp.org, it may won’t allow. So follow this procedure, if you face any problem in exporting from blogspot.
Ridho
January 4th, 2009 9:45 pm
Before i read this post, i don’t know how to move from wordpress.com to wordpress.org. But i have late to move, cause i already have a blog using wordpress.org.
aLee
January 5th, 2009 1:10 am
this couldnt have come at a better time..
thanks for sharing, was much needed !
çiçekçi
January 5th, 2009 2:53 am
thank for sharing very very good blog
Maggy
January 5th, 2009 4:15 am
I just came across your blog about and wanted to drop you a note telling you how impressed I was with the information you have posted here. I also have a web site & blog about advertising so I know I’m talking about when I say your site is top-notch! Keep up the great work, you are providing a great resource on the Internet here!
http://www.soloadsonly.com
Upperthinking
January 5th, 2009 6:28 am
I have been looking for this info for the longest time THANKS ALOT!
Reality Raver
January 5th, 2009 7:54 am
I am moving from blogger to wordpress.org this week so this article was indeed timely.
Currently I am using a blogspot domain name and will be transferring to a .com name
Is it possible that when readers come in on the blogspot address they can be forwarded to the new site?
I love this site. All the information is in plain english so for a technophobe like me it is invaluable.
John
January 5th, 2009 12:12 pm
Wow, where did my comment go? I raised some legitimate concerns, and it’s just vanished.
German romance
January 5th, 2009 3:35 pm
Right now I am having my blog with TypePad, it is ok, but you can’t make so many changes on the blog. thank for this article, I now know i need to move.
Carla
January 5th, 2009 4:17 pm
.com to .org was the best thing I ever did for my blog. Its all grown up now (sort of) :)
Danny
January 5th, 2009 5:35 pm
There are two WordPresses? As if life was confusing enough.
devsoft.mobi
January 5th, 2009 7:07 pm
Good post but i heard sometime the comment will gone, and i never use wordpress.com due to cant use plugin and add ads
Alan Neath
January 5th, 2009 7:13 pm
Setting up my self hosted WordPress Blog with my own domain name was a little tricky at first, well worth the effort and has so many opportunities to add and manage the look and way it works, that iwould never consider any other website again.
Alan
Darren Rowse
January 5th, 2009 7:26 pm
John – I don’t see any other comments from you on this blog – there’s a chance it got filtered as spam by akismet my comment spam filter but I don’t even see it there (although we cleared the list yesterday).
sony
January 5th, 2009 11:30 pm
Hi problogger, i am sony, i have recently moved my blog to wp.org, i have no good knowledge about wp cache, could you please write a post completely about this plugin usage and how can we optimize it to decrease our page loading time and etc. Now a days so many people are migrating to wp, so many people need its usage.So please have a look, it will help a many i am sure.
Robyn
January 6th, 2009 1:19 am
I agree this is a helpful article. A few questions:
1) I am currently on WP.com – to migrate to wp.org,do i need to figure out the hosting option first, or will this walk me through the process as I make the move to wp.org
2) Is there a preferable hosting site?
3) Not being a techie I don’t understand the “php.ini” part – do I need to understand this in detail to make the migration – or if I just follow the instructions as in the article will I be ok?
I’m concerned about having a glitch then not knowing how to correct it.
Thanks!
Tyler
January 6th, 2009 2:17 am
Hey Jeff, thanks for a great article. However, hosting your own blog has it’s own “host” of problems. I moved from blogger to WP and initially had trouble setting up my Wordpress blog on a Godaddy hosted domain. I worked through all the kinks and posted a how-to (or as I call it, How2) for others who may be in a similar situation.
http://tystips.com/archives/3/how2-install-wordpress-on-a-godaddy-hosted-domain/
Hopefully this helps some of your readers who are undoubtedly using Godaddy to host their new blogs.
Nick Stamoulis
January 6th, 2009 2:24 am
This is good to know. Personally I’m not a fan of the hosted word press blogs. Always a better choice to go with the self hosted platform.
Debbie
January 6th, 2009 5:33 am
Hi Jeff,
I recently made the switch from .com to .org so I could have more control over my blog. Wish I had read this article before I went through all of it.
Thankfully, I made a copy of my content before I made the switch!
Debbie
http://debbiefoster.net
Will Scott
January 6th, 2009 5:54 pm
Hi all, I was actually volunteering to help a friend with the move from WP.com to his own domain using WP.org.
The trickiest part about this is as Dannie asks above:
So, here I am all excited at the opportunity to blog the solution and take screenshots while helping my friend and I found someone else had already done it: http://blog-well.com/2008/01/27/wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg/
The PDF document linked from the page above describes exactly how I was going to move the site contents and maintain the links.
I hope that helps.
Will
Miser
January 6th, 2009 8:00 pm
Nice article.
Last week I made the switch from a custom blogger domain name to Wordpress.org while keeping the same domain in order to maintain my permlinks.
This transition is MUCH harder then the one above since Wordpress and blogger store things a little differently.
I’m relatively new to blogging (~3 weeks) so it was a very difficult thing to transition over. I had to learn and troubleshoot on-the-fly.
But after many, many hours i was successful, I think. So it is possible!
————-
mysavingcents.com
çiçekçi
January 6th, 2009 9:24 pm
There are two WordPresses? As if life was confusing enough.
Ben Moreno
January 7th, 2009 12:58 am
ProBlogger should throw a huge party once it reaches the 100k subscriber mark! I’ll bring the keg!
valery
January 7th, 2009 2:20 am
This article very interesting!!
I will come back again. :)
ali
January 8th, 2009 1:30 am
The trickiest part about this is as Dannie asks above
Will Scott
January 8th, 2009 9:24 am
@ali,
Have a look a few comments above yours. I linked out to a resource which solves the problem.
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/01/03/how-to-move-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg/#comment-4458569
Cheers,
Will
Boruch Siper
January 8th, 2009 2:51 pm
I don’t know why the authors who write tutorials on switching from wp.com to wp.org self hosted solution don’t discuss the following problem and a big one at that. If you embeded any flash media on wp.com blog such as youtube none of it will show up on your selfhosted blog. This issue is huge problem particularly to video bloggers. And almost everyone embeds videos on their blog every so often. Can Jeff Chandler be so kind and please tell us all how to go about this since he already wrote this tutorial?
AGX Hosting
January 9th, 2009 9:39 pm
Great topic! Just what exactly I am looking for. Any other great reference site for this? Thanks peeps…
Christina
January 10th, 2009 12:45 am
Does anyone know roughly how many visitors you’d need to have to make your .org domain pay for itself, or make you some money (say with Google ads) instead of costing money? It’d be a lot of help!
web 2.0
January 10th, 2009 2:23 am
I have used wordpress.com only once. they froze my account just because i was posting too frequently. Imagine the use of a blog if we cant blog according to our own will. Well blogging is really about giving ourselves space right. I paid money and got myself a blog. Now i dont need to worry about any restriction (other than my bandwidth) and just express myself.
Rex
January 10th, 2009 3:50 pm
I recently bought a domain name compassionateconsiderations.com
It will be hosted within the server of the organization I work for and I was given a 20MB room to work with initially.
I am still learning how to do the switch from WP.com to my own http://www.domainname.com.
I already have more than 7,000 hits and I am afraid that once I launched my blog through the domain name I purchased , that my counter will have to go back to being zero.
I am a newbie in blogging much more in switching and exporting blogs. I have used blogspot and livejournal but it is with wordpress that I became more comfortable with.
My domain name will be http://www.compassionateconsiderations.com and it will still be powered by wordpress but hosted somewhere.
i wish someone could just really give me the steps you know kinda like “Moving to your own domain for the dummies!”
Thanks
Will Scott
January 10th, 2009 10:53 pm
@Rex
Have a look a few comments above yours. I linked out to a resource which solves the problem.
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/01/03/how-to-move-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg/#comment-4458569
This could easily qualify as “Moving WordPress to Your Own Domain for Dummies”.
Cheers,
Will
Julie Kubal
January 12th, 2009 6:29 am
I followed your directions but when I try to import the xml file onto my server I get the following message: “Sorry, there has been an error. Unable to create directory /home/julie/public_html/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”
I went onto the server and created the directory myself and then transferred the file into it manually but that didn’t seem to work either. Is there another way to transfer the file manually, or is there a setting on my server cPanel I should change to allow the import?
Please help!!
Thanks,
-Julie
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January 17th, 2009 4:19 am
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Jim Spence
January 17th, 2009 1:11 pm
I am not sure that I can completely understand your comments. Would you be so kind as to expand on your reasoning a little more before I comment.
chikwendu
January 17th, 2009 8:18 pm
I’m pretty sure some people will not like it
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January 18th, 2009 10:29 am
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Henry
January 19th, 2009 10:29 am
Hi, The o – Move From WordPress.com To WordPress.org-post was a very interesting one, thanks!
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January 19th, 2009 11:43 pm
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chikwendu
January 21st, 2009 8:19 am
I find your blog boring,I don’t think you are telling the truth.
banesto
January 31st, 2009 9:19 am
my appologies, but this article is pretty shallow. as mentioned before, exporting contents is only 50% of moving process. Yes, it’s the main part, but not the whole.. How can one get the list of plugins used, for example. I need not start new blog with old contents but replicate the blog 1 to 1, exception being only urls.
Dirnov
February 4th, 2009 11:10 pm
Hi,
Thank you! I would now go on this blog every day!
Thanks
Dirnov
Terri
February 10th, 2009 2:20 am
I love your blog and have referred to it many times. I am confused on this one though. I followed the steps to move my domain from WP.com to WP.org but now what?
It still looks the same. I didn’t have to do anything else. And I can’t log in at .org now – do I still login at .com and assume that the switch has been made?
skykid
February 14th, 2009 2:25 am
I had my blog at wordpress.com for about 4 years and decided to move it to my own domain. The post above has the general things outlined – but one should also take care for domain redirection and CEO value. I managed to redirect all post from my wordpress.domain to my new domain at theskykid.com – for which I had to pay 10 $ ( yearly ). Nowadays I get pretty much the same traffic – between 1500 – 2000 visitors a day, but at the same time my google PR standing seem to have decreased . I am trying to get in back to normal.
Roy
February 20th, 2009 11:43 pm
I am planning to move my wordpress.com blog to a self-hosted blog.
searching for information on net brought articles with lots of technical stuff in them. they must think everybody speaks their language.
this post makes it all simple. I guess I’ll have more confidence now doing my planned transfer.
thanks!
izle dizi
February 23rd, 2009 1:36 am
Wonderful article. A lot of great information to study and learn while reading.
Crazyanimegyrl
March 4th, 2009 6:44 pm
Thank so much for the helpful information!!! :)
Worked like a charm! Yay.
Janet Ching
March 6th, 2009 5:44 am
Thanks for such a great post. I am in the process exploring how to migrate from wordpress.com to .org. Quite painful I am using go daddy to register a domain and for hosting.
hhy
March 18th, 2009 12:30 pm
I am planning to move my wordpress.com blog to a self-hosted blog.
searching for information on net brought articles with lots of technical stuff in them. they must think everybody speaks their language.
this post makes it all simple. I guess I’ll have more confidence now doing my planned transfer.
thanks!
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April 13th, 2009 6:08 pm
I just came across your blog about and wanted to drop you a note telling you how impressed I was with the information you have posted here. I also have a web site & blog about advertising/blogging so I know I’m talking about when I say your site is top-notch!
FMJ
April 18th, 2009 4:14 pm
Very timely!!!
Thanks for sharing.
Dawn-Top Bloggers
April 24th, 2009 2:47 am
Can you please give any advice for those people who really dont have the money to buy all these pricey tools for blogging and advertising. I have a blog well rather vlog and i would like to monetize it in the best way. Any advise
Julien
May 4th, 2009 5:15 am
Great article!!! I’m planning on writing one for http://powermywordpress.comand this will inspire me!!!
I’m taking the idea of moving to wordpress.org further as I install wordpress for people who lack the skills and I do this on free hosting!!! This is really the best solution for people who aren’t going to be drawing thousands of visitors a day (which is 98% of people anyway) and who don’t want to pay monthly hosting charges. Check it out: http://powermywordpress.com!!!
Awais Imran
May 5th, 2009 4:50 pm
Really helpful. I will indeed use this transfer from .com to .org!
Wolverine
May 11th, 2009 6:25 am
Very usefull info, 2 month ago I transfer from com to org.
Rajesh
May 12th, 2009 3:41 pm
I don’t have any hosting site and i used it for free(without pay to host), is it possible to move wordpressBlog.com To wordpress.org
Bluefox
May 18th, 2009 11:14 pm
I always wondered what the difference was, luckily I am already on wordpress.org.
Rory
June 8th, 2009 1:41 am
Thanks, this was incredibly easy with your help. My blog is two months old, but I see it did not carry over my theme, etc. Not a big deal though, I will likely do a little rebranding as well and tweak the theme myself if possible. Really happy to have this on my own site and generating traffic to my website instead of a separate blog!
Thanks,
Rory
http://www.rorycullen.com/blog/
Steve
June 8th, 2009 2:30 pm
Nice article, I just migrated my site. Wish I saw this before I started.
Check out my post with recommended plug-ins:
http://www.stevekhart.com/2009/06/migrating-from-wordpresscom-to-a-hosted-solution/
ron
June 9th, 2009 8:39 am
my only question is; how will it affect my google PR? so let’s just say your .com account is getting regular hits and you would like to have it monetized but since it’s a .com account, you can’t so you would like to move it to.org, will it still carry its google PR?
Most Expensive Domain
June 18th, 2009 4:55 am
nice read but most need help with understanding how to inherit links, and seo value when moving to a new domain.
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