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Visitor’s Email:

Hello Mr. Laplana,

This has nothing to do with sales or promotions or anything like that.  I just noticed that you have wordpress and your website looks very nice and functional.  I just got hosting through godaddy yesterday and have been trying to transfer my wordpress.com blog to godaddy and I can’t figure it out.

Thank you
Ma**** Biel

My Answer:

So you have a blog hosted by WordPress.com. But the problem is, there are lots of restrictions and limitations that the management of WordPress.com implemented into the blogs they’re hosting. You want to make money online but it is not allowed in the WordPress.com blogs.

Finally you decided to transfer your blog from the servers of wordpress.com to your own server, or to the servers who’ve rented from any commercial webhosts.

But the problem is how could you do it?

Well, transferring your blog from the WordPress.com servers to your own server is just easy. Just follow the steps below:

1. Log-in to your yourblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin using your own or admin’s username and password.
2. At the left side of the screen, click on the TOOLS >> EXPORT menu as shown on the image below:
   
3. Then after that, click the “DOWNLOAD EXPORT FILE” button. Then WordPress will create an XML file for you to save to your computer. The file in a format which is called WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR, that contains your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags.
4. You’ll be prompted to open or save the file like what is shown below:
   
   Choose “SAVE FILE” and click “OK“.
5. Usually, the file has been saved at the desktop of your computer. And it is now ready to be imported to the WordPress installed on your new server.

The steps above is for exporting the content of your blog at yourblog.wordpress.com in the form of XML. The next thing you need to do is to import the downloaded file into the WordPress installed at your new server.

In other words, you need to install first the WordPress software into your new server.

1. Log-in to the admin panel of your new blog at yournewblog.com/wp-admin/ using your admin username and password.
2. In the step 2 above (exporting process), you clicked the TOOLS / EXPORT menu. But this time, just click the TOOLS/IMPORT menu.
3. After that, you’ll be shown few of the blogging formats or platforms. Just click on the WORDPRESS.
4. Then another page will be shown. This time click the BROWSE button and locate the XML file you downloaded earlier during the exporting process you did on the steps above.
5. Now, click the UPLOAD FILE AND IMPORT button.

Then WordPress will upload the WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) file or the XML file you downloaded earlier and then will import the posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags into this blog.

PROBLEM?

Kindly email me or leave your comments here if you encounter problems or if you want to share your experience in doing the exporting and importing processes.

Thank you.

More Questions:

1. Question: Can I move wordpress free blog to a new domain and host?
   Answer: Yes! Of course! The process is similar to what has been described above.
2. Question: Can I transfer my wordpress account to a new one?
   Answer: Yes, you can transfer your wordpress account to a new one by simply exporting your blog from the old wordpress account and then import the exported file to your new wordpress account. Just read the article above for it contains guide on how to export and import blog’s content.

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