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Moving a Blog

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Moving Between WordPress.com Blogs

Although you cannot change your current blog URL, you can simply register another WordPress.com blog under your existing user account and then transfer your content.

First, register the new blog. To create a new blog, click the “Register another blog” link below your username on the http://wordpress.com/ home page while you are logged in.

Once the new blog is registered, follow these steps to complete the transfer:

1) In the old blog, go to Tools -> Export and download the XML file to your computer.

2) In the new blog, go to Tools -> Import and upload the XML file you downloaded in step 1.

Note: This will ONLY move your your posts, pages, comments, categories, and tags; any uploads and images will need to be manually transferred to the new blog. If you have a large amount of content in your Media Library, please contact Support and we can move it for you!

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Moving to WordPress.org

If you are moving to a privately-hosted server using the WordPress.org software, the content transfer process is identical to that described above.

However, you first need to obtain web hosting and have your WordPress.org blog/site up and running before completing the process (i.e. importing the file from your WordPress.com blog). Suitable hosts can be found here.

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Transferring Your Blog to Another User or Account

You need to contact Support while logged into your WordPress.com account in order to accomplish this.

We will need to know the email address and username of the person you are giving the blog to and the URL of the blog you would like to transfer. Please make sure that you are transferring the blog to a valid, existing account. If you wish to transfer a blog to a user who does NOT yet have an account, please have them register first at http://wordpress.com/signup/

Important: You must be logged in at the time you use the Support form. This will prove that you are, in fact, the owner of the blog you wish to transfer. If you are NOT logged in while submitting a transfer request, we cannot complete the process for you.