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My Journey from WordPress.com to WordPress.org

I’m still not 100% sure why I’ve moved my blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org but apparently I’ll have more control, flexibility and if I decide to go down the route of monetising it it’s better to self host as WordPress.com doesn’t allow advertising.  Do bear in mind that I’m not a techie geek so if you are, look away now!

It’s been quite the learning curve so I thought I would write a few posts to summarise my experience, hoping it helps you in some way.

Other Posts in this Series

Registering a Domain Name and Renting Server Space

Exporting Your Blog

Choosing a Theme

Customising Your Header

Redirecting Traffic (TBA)

Plugins (TBA)

Technorati (TBA)

Exporting Your Blog

Now that you have a domain name and some server space you can start importing your posts.  For the most part this was fairly straight forward.  This is assuming that you have already installed WordPress.org.  If not, click on the link for a couple of options for doing this.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIapqCIpDA

Exporting the posts from wordpress.com was a walk in the park. But, I had issues with importing them. Everytime I tried importing it would fail part way through, the only solution was to import over and over again until they all came across. No word of a lie I had to do it over 20 times and I only had 55 posts! Apparently if you open the xml file you can delete the successful posts and run again, unfortunately I can’t read xml. I also tried to open it in notepad which was a bit better but still wasn’t confident enough to start deleting things.

Now the fun begins! The options for customizing are endless.

Other Posts in the Series

My Journey from WordPress,com to WordPress.org

Registering a Domain Name and Renting Server Space

Exporting Your Blog

Choosing a Theme

Customising Your Header

Redirecting Traffic (TBA)

Plugins (TBA)

Technorati (TBA)

Welcome to my new home!

Thanks for stopping by.  I’ve been busying moving my blog from wordpress.com to wordpress.org.  I won’t bore you with the details but it’s been on hell of a learning curve (cliff would probably be a better description).  It still looks like a student flat but hopefully in time it will become homelier.

Look forward to seeing you again soon.

Cheers,

Chrissie

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