Comments on: Moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org (video tutorial)

By: Linda Sherman

Linda Sherman — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 03:18:30 +0000

Thank you Oscar. I agree that the redirects are important for someone who has a WordPress.com blog. In my case, I have only created one temporarily to allow me a path to WordPress.org from Posterous.

I was able to turn off indexing (Search Engines Discouraged) on the WordPress.com site I set up for the transfer. The URL’s that were indexed on the Posterous account have stayed the same.

Now that the Posterous posts are safely on the WordPress.org site, for the time being I have made the WP.com site private and eventually will delete it.

By: Oscar Gonzalez

Oscar Gonzalez — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:01:29 +0000

In reply to Linda Sherman.

to Linda: WordPress.com allows you to redirect to a new domain. I think it is one of the premium options. It will forward your posts from say: example.wordpress.com/2011/09/01 to example.com/2011/09/01 — For purposes of SEO, you would want to have that option as it will redirect each post to their counterpart on WordPress.org. You can tweak this and adjust any discrepancies by using the Plugin “Redirection”

As for the photos, the WordPress import seems to have issues with most photos so yes, you may have to manually fix those, I seem to have to fix at least a few issues with photos each time I do an import with a lot of photos.

By: Linda Sherman

Linda Sherman — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:26:42 +0000

I am going through the process of, and at the same time writing an article about migrating from Posterous (closing down April 31) to WordPress.org. I currently plan to include your nice video in my article.

There is an import Posterous to WordPress.com and it is advised to take this step before going to WordPress.org.

Importing photos from Posterous is a known issue but fortunately I have access to the original photos which I will prepare one by one for WordPress in the proper manner.

The question is, I assume it is best to quickly move through WordPress.com and get on WordPress.org and play with the photos there.

After I do that, I need to delete the WordPress.com site right?

Is there an easy option there, as on WordPress.org to request that search engines not index?

Secondly, should there be anything complex in removing the WordPress.com site? Hopefully, I don’t need to redirect each post?

By: Robin Fenchel

Robin Fenchel — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:44:14 +0000

This is a very informative post, Oscar. There are so many beginning bloggers that haven’t a clue as to the difference in the WordPress.com and WordPress.org. I believe that we all began using the free WordPress.com sites as they were very easy to set up. Once I found out what features could be had with the WordPress.org site, I quickly made the move to a self-hosted site. I only gave that up recently to a webmaster as I was spending too much time learning the ins and outs of WordPress as a designer and a coder which was not in any way my expertise, and less and less time in my own profession. I decided that it was better to leave the web design and SEO to those professionals who do this sort of thing for a living. Now I have more time to blog and sell real estate 😀

By: Janet Stephenson (@JanetLouise8)

Janet Stephenson (@JanetLouise8) — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:27:37 +0000

Oscar, do you know much about migrating from one hosting company to another? One day, when I’m ready, I’ll come find this post and use your coupon code. 🙂

By: Geek Blog

Geek Blog — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:17:59 +0000

Great post Oscar! I made this transition many years ago and it was an awesome decision and as you showed WAY easier than people think!

By: William

William — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:46:06 +0000

I have sites on both systems and the basic question I always ask myself is how much time do I have to develop and maintain the site vs. what I want from it. For my BowTie365 project, I knew that I was going to maintain it for just the year so I hosted it on WordPress.com that way I can leave it up for little cost (I own the domain name). But for larger project, especially ones that include income, I like the self hosting route. But it is nice to know that I can move it if needed. Thanks Oscar.

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