WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Already bought domain name at wordpress.com. Need to transfer everything to .org http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/already-bought-domain-name-at-wordpresscom-need-to-transfer-everything-to-org WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Already bought domain name at wordpress.com. Need to transfer everything to .org en Sun, 26 May 2013 01:53:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 auxclass on "Already bought domain name at wordpress.com. Need to transfer everything to .org" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/already-bought-domain-name-at-wordpresscom-need-to-transfer-everything-to-org#post-1032852 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 13:36:40 +0000 auxclass 1032852@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You need to hire a host then install WordPress.ORG on it - then export from your blog here and import to your new blog - Get help at WordPress.ORG for the install (they are not a host) - they do have host suggestions -

Moving the name is the last thing you do - see below: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

]]> cherylmarkosky on "Already bought domain name at wordpress.com. Need to transfer everything to .org" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/already-bought-domain-name-at-wordpresscom-need-to-transfer-everything-to-org#post-1032812 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 12:31:56 +0000 cherylmarkosky 1032812@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi

I signed up to wordpress.com at cherylmarkosky.wordpress.com and bought the domain name cherylmarkosky.com, which it now directs to.

Didn't understand the whole .com vs. .org situation back then, so bought a theme and now need to transfer the whole lot to .org in order to install said theme.

This is where I am stuck. I am not at all experienced at hosting my own thing, or FTP, so in layman's terms, what do I do now? As I bought the domain from wordpress.com, I don't have a clue about how to access the hosting side of things.

I'm sure this has been answered before, apologies, I didn't know where to start looking.

Thanks

Jack

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