Moving a Wordpress blog to your own domain

[Maya Norton]

Back when I started my blog in August, I wanted to create a website with the blog as a component of it. I thought WYSIWYG would make basic website development quick and easy, but that wasn't the case, so I went straight to creating my blog.

But... I do own the domain name-- www.TheNewJew.org-- and would like to move my Wordpress blog there keeping everything intact but changing the URL for a more professional feel. It's silly to have the domain and not use it, especially when it shares its name with the blog.

Any ideas? Or do you know anyone who could help? This is my number one "building a better blog" goal right now in terms of professionalism. You help would be deeply appreciated.

Maya

The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy
www.TheNewJew.wordpress.com (and of course, www.TheNewJew.org)

[Talia Carbis]

My husband own a company 'Red Block Internet Consultants' and he would do it for you personally for you for a really cheap price.

Because your site is currently on wordpress.com, it would be of the most benefit to you to set up a wordpress.org site. This will feed directly into your URL, and then you'll get better search results etc. because you'll only have one way of accessing your site.

If you're interested then send me an email ([e-mail]), and he'll send you a quote.

If you email though the log in details to your domain then he can check that he can do it all first.

Good luck!
Talia

[Simon Thomas]

Maya, It's actually really simple if you are currently using a Wordpress.com site. You can just install Wordpress as normal on your domain, set everything up so it's working right (i.e. get all the permalinks structures, plugins etc right). Then, go into the import/export options of the Wordpress.com blog, export it, save the file locally, then just import it into your newly installed blog on your domain. It's really not hard, and I'd be happy to help if you have any questions.

The only difficulty you would have is that the URL of all your posts would have changed, so you'd have to figure out a way to manage that. There are plenty of tips out there on how to do it.