Video tutorial easy to follow that will guide you how to move, switch or migrate from your free wordpress.com blog to selfhosted WordPress.org blog.
A few things you have to prepare before you move your wordpress.com blog to a selfhosted one:
1. You need a domain name. Mostly recommended, put your keywords in this domain name. See more how to create a good blog title or name here.
2. A webhost provider to install wordpress. Find more about how to install wordpress 3.0 here.
3. Read the official guides from wordpress.com website to prepare.
Once you already installed wordpress in your web server, we can start importing wordpress.com blog to our selfhosted worpress.org blog.
Here are the steps to move “wordpress.com” blog to a selfhosted one:
1. In your wordpress.com admin page, which is usually, blogname.wordpress.com/wp-admin. Go to “Tools” and “Export”.
2. Set the filters, either from the specific post dates, or authors, or all of your posts. In the video tutorial below, i have chosen all of the posts. Click “Download Export File” Save it in your computer, in this case i saved in my desktop.
3. Now we go to your selfhosted blog dashboard, you can access it in: selfhostedblog.com/wp-admin. Go to “Tools” and then “Import”.
4. It will ask you from which platform you want to import, in our case, click “WordPress”. It will then ask us to install wordpress importer. Click “Install Now”
5. Click “Activate Plugin & Run Importer”.
6. We should be reading “Import WordPress” page, and browse our imported xml file from our wordpress.com blog earlier. In this case, it is located in my desktop.
Note: About maximun size, it depends on our webhost. If your file is too big, contact your webhost, they should solve your problem.
7. Once you find the file, Click “Open” and in dashboard, click “Upload and Import”.
8. Next step is we have to assign Authors. You want to use old author name in wordpress.com or change the author to your selfhosted wordpress.org blog’s author. If you want to use your current selfhosted blog’s Author, go to “map to exisiting” and in pull down menu, choose the author name.
9. Tick “Download and import file attachments”, so that you can also import images from your old wordpress.com blog. Click “Submit”. Finger crossed, let’s hope we can import it successfully without any problems.
If all works fine, you will see the successful notification of importing proccess.
The last step, is refresh your selfhosted wordpress blog and see if your posts are all there. The images and the content should be imported.
So, that’s how we can migrate or move wordpress.com free blog to a selfhosted one, have fun with your new blog, and you might check my wordpress tips that you may want to do after installing wordpress.
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Hi, I have troubles with this. Because my XML file was more than 2MB thus when I try to upload it on selfhost site, it became impossible. I also try to adding some changes to .htaccess file but there was no better evidence. Because of using free hosting so I cannot edit the php.ini file.
Could you give me some advices to overcome these problems?
P/s: This is my 1st time I come to your site and I have to say that your site is great. Keep it up :)
Thanks
Hey KNO,
Unfortunately, i have never encountered that problem, did you check on this wordpress guide?
http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Working_with_WordPress#How_do_I_Import_a_WordPress_WXR_file_when_it_says_it_is_too_large_to_import.3F
Try to add the line in wp-config.php may help.
Let me know how it goes.
PS. Thanks for your encouraging comment and visiting!
Thanks Kimi
I was impressed by your fast feedback!. I tried through your way but there was nothing happen better. Poor me, may be I must look up for a paid hosting in order solve this big ptoblem. I’ll come back to your blog soon
Hey Kno,
sorry to hear it :( yes, indeed with paid webhosting is more reliable and they support us as well.
Kimi,
How about plugins and themes? How can export them and install them on the new site?
I look forward to your answer.
Thanks,
Hi Juan,
Is there any plugins that can be installed in wordpress.com?
If in a selfhosted wordpress blog, (wordpress.org) they can be easily imported or copied. I have a related video on this: http://www.blog.web6.org/back-up-and-restore-in-wordpress/
I hope this helps
Kind regards,
Kimi.