WordPress.com Forums » Topic: What happens to blog if move to .org? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/what-happens-to-blog-if-move-to-org WordPress.com Forums » Topic: What happens to blog if move to .org? en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:32:54 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "What happens to blog if move to .org?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/what-happens-to-blog-if-move-to-org#post-873012 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:40:12 +0000 timethief 873012@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If you’ve registered your domain through WordPress.com and now want it to point to a blog or website hosted elsewhere then you can do this by updating the nameservers. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/domain-management/#update-nameservers To understand the whole process you must undertake to move blog content see > Setting up a self-hosted WordPress.org install

]]> amyturnthepage on "What happens to blog if move to .org?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/what-happens-to-blog-if-move-to-org#post-872979 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:38:35 +0000 amyturnthepage 872979@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm thinking of moving to WordPress.org. I have a domain name I purchased on wordpress.com, and I know I will need to re-route that, but then what happens to my wordpress.com blog?

Will it still be up and running as before, only with the original/free URL I set it up with? Or will it no longer work?

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