Comments on: How to Move WordPress.com to WordPress.org

By: Stefania Mereu, Ph.D

Stefania Mereu, Ph.D — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:51:21 +0000

Hi,

I have experienced the exact same problem and I am (now) sure that I followed all the steps. I suspect that it may be due to the fact that I told wordpress to export all the attachments from wp.com, but now I don't know how to import the problem without installing wordpress again. Have you fixed the problem? I would appreciate if you could share your solution with me.
S.

By: judi knight

judi knight — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:35:25 +0000

If you followed my instructions you will have a site up on your own hosting account. You can point your domain name to the new site.

By: Sommar

Sommar — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:57:57 +0000

So even if my URL didn't change, doing this process will move my blog from wordpress.com to wordpress.org?

Again, thanks for the help!

By: judi knight

judi knight — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:32:22 +0000

To login to your new site, you type into the address bar: http://www.yournewurl.com/wp-admin the login screed will come up and you put your user name ans password in and there you go.

By: Sommar

Sommar — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:51:05 +0000

This artivle has been VERY helpful and I think you. I have a question. On this part:

"# Go to your new site’s dashboard to Tools – Import and find the file on your desktop to import into your new site. Be sure you check the option when it presents itself to bring in all attachments."

When you say my new sites dashboard, do i just login to wordpress.org? Where is the dashboard there?

By: judi knight

judi knight — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:26:10 +0000

Dawn, I have not had any problems with importing the database ( content) from a WordPress.com site to a WOrdPRess.org site as long as the WordPress.org site was set up properly. So if you just set up the .org site you may want to check that you have it set up correctly. SOmetimes people skip steps if they are doing the install by hand and that can create problems. Or they are running a WordPress.org site on a server of a hosting company that does not have the best software and configuration to run WordPress site. Go Daddy has particulary bad performance issues running WordPress sites. I recommend Bluehost.

By: Dawn Lawson

Dawn Lawson — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:26:21 +0000

Have you ever experienced EXTREMELY slow loading times after importing the .com blog files? I notice in the lower left corner of the browser window all of the .com files being transferred. Any fix for that?

By: stacking

stacking — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:04:31 +0000

I owe you my life!!! Thank you for the simple, step-by-step instructions. I was a nervous nilly about exporting my site and this post made it easy. Danke!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:21:48 +0000

Hi, great article! Will this affect my SER ? Thnx

By: Lois

Lois — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:05:05 +0000

LOVE the article and all your help in moving my blog from wordpress.com to wordpress.org. Just tweeted it and am going to post to facebook.