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#1 (permalink)   05-14-2010 Jill T Contributing Member Company name: DanceFit Marketing LLC Jill's Journal: Quick Tip -- Prominently Display Your Location On ... My latest Twitter: "What lies behind us, and what lies before us...   Join Date: May 2008 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 118 Moving from free wordpress.com to a hosted site Hi there... I know how to move a wordpress site from one server to another, but is there a way to take the database content from the free wordpress.com site and move it to a new hosted server? If anyone has any experience with this, I would appreciate some direction. I've seen numerous articles to move from hosted to hosted, but not from free to hosted. Thank you!! __________________ Jill Tirone DanceFit Marketing LLC

#2 (permalink)   05-14-2010 ChristinaVOS Active Member Company name: VOSTeam/Business Darlings/PainlessWP Business Darlings: Free Ebook!?!? Count me in- NOT! My latest Twitter: RT @VAIntern: VAIntern- get your Tasks DONE! http...   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 886 Re: Moving from free wordpress.com to a hosted site Jill, It will only move your posts and pages but- Wordpress.com has an export fetaure in the dashboard. Save the file where you can easily find it on your computer then go to your Wordpress.org dashboard and use the import feature in the sidebar to import that file. Very easy! ~Christina __________________ ~Christina|BD Mag|VOSTeam

#3 (permalink)   05-17-2010 Jill T Contributing Member Company name: DanceFit Marketing LLC Jill's Journal: Quick Tip -- Prominently Display Your Location On ... My latest Twitter: "What lies behind us, and what lies before us...   Join Date: May 2008 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 118 Re: Moving from free wordpress.com to a hosted site Hi Christina, Thanks for your response. Can you clarify one thing for me? In moving away from the free site, client will be hosted with Blue Host and have WP installed through cPanel. Will the import feature be available through her WP dashboard on the new hosted site? Thank you! __________________ Jill Tirone DanceFit Marketing LLC

#4 (permalink)   05-17-2010 ChristinaVOS Active Member Company name: VOSTeam/Business Darlings/PainlessWP Business Darlings: Free Ebook!?!? Count me in- NOT! My latest Twitter: RT @VAIntern: VAIntern- get your Tasks DONE! http...   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 886 Re: Moving from free wordpress.com to a hosted site The import feature is built into WP so no matter where you install it, you will be able to access it. If you get stuck or have questions you can post here or catch me on skype or AIM (check my profile for usernames) ~C __________________ ~Christina|BD Mag|VOSTeam

#5 (permalink)   05-17-2010 Jill T Contributing Member Company name: DanceFit Marketing LLC Jill's Journal: Quick Tip -- Prominently Display Your Location On ... My latest Twitter: "What lies behind us, and what lies before us...   Join Date: May 2008 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 118 Re: Moving from free wordpress.com to a hosted site That's what I thought... in fact, I found it after I posted my last message to the forum. I'm used to working with paid hosting and cPanel... so I was a little leery of the capabilities of the free WP site. I really appreciate your help. I'm confident all will go well. Seems pretty straight forward. Have a great week!!! __________________ Jill Tirone DanceFit Marketing LLC