WordPress.com > WordPress.org

[SauRoNZA]

My wife has a Wordpress hosted site and domain that she was toying with for a few months now.

Now she wants to switch to a Wordpress.org hosted platform to access some specific templates and things as well as advertising which isn't possible through Wordpress directly.

I recall reading this exact same kind of question on here before and someone recommending a hosting service that does the entire migration for you.

Am I smoking something or does that really exist?

 

[Solitude]

Some of the smaller hosting companies will actually do that for you. Your best bet is to contact them and ask them if you move to them if they will take care of the Wordpress migration.

 

[shadowfox]

I just want to make sure I understand the situation properly - I assume from this your wife has a site hosted at example.wordpress.com, and she now wants to move to a self-hosted domain eg ... example.co.za?

I don't actually know if it's possible to "migrate" a site from Wordpress.com - given that you don't have access to databases or anything like that, so a hosting company won't be able to help you. Wordpress themselves will help you with a "guided transfer", but you'll have to shell out $129 for that service.

Your other "free" option would be to export your posts/pages as an XML file (it's in the Tools section of your admin panel), and then import that into your self-hosted Wordpress installation. I'm not sure how you would go about dealing with the images though, because that doesn't get exported.

You might actually be able to leave them where they are, since the XML export will include all the links to the images where they are currently - I haven't actually come across a way to delete a wordpress.com hosted site; at best you can prevent search engines from indexing them.

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

I used Siteground.com (my affiliate link: http://www.siteground.com/index.htm?afcode=4dbd3ef060e17bbcf7691888e5b62d3d) where they moved my whole installation from another host (I could have done it myself, but they did the DB install/restore and WP config in like 20 minutes --- it would have taken me longer to just download the content).

I think with Wordpress.com you can export your DB and probably download the media files, so the Siteground guys would be able to do this too. Ask them via Livechat - they are super-helpful and fast.

 

[Darko]

Install the JetPack plugin on teh self hosted Wordpress Site. The plugin allows you to have access to some Wordpress hosted features. Perhaps your advertising feature is avalable on there?

 

[SauRoNZA]

Install the JetPack plugin on teh self hosted Wordpress Site. The plugin allows you to have access to some Wordpress hosted features. Perhaps your advertising feature is avalable on there?

From what I read you need this plugin to actually do the migration as well.

Her problem is deeper in that the theme she wants isn't supported.

But I've found some info After posting Bluehost or something like that who can do this officially for you.

Recreating the content isn't so much of a hassle but moving the domain might be.

 

[SauRoNZA]

I just want to make sure I understand the situation properly - I assume from this your wife has a site hosted at example.wordpress.com, and she now wants to move to a self-hosted domain eg ... example.co.za?

I don't actually know if it's possible to "migrate" a site from Wordpress.com - given that you don't have access to databases or anything like that, so a hosting company won't be able to help you. Wordpress themselves will help you with a "guided transfer", but you'll have to shell out $129 for that service.

Your other "free" option would be to export your posts/pages as an XML file (it's in the Tools section of your admin panel), and then import that into your self-hosted Wordpress installation. I'm not sure how you would go about dealing with the images though, because that doesn't get exported.

You might actually be able to leave them where they are, since the XML export will include all the links to the images where they are currently - I haven't actually come across a way to delete a wordpress.com hosted site; at best you can prevent search engines from indexing them.

Nah she has a direct example.com hosted and managed by Wordpress.

But it seems this isn't quite as hard as I anticipated. I posted here before Googling thinking it was discussed before.