: Wordpress.com to self-hosted WordPress blog I have been writing articles on the wordpress.com blog, now I am looking to move it to self-hosted wordpress blog but i wonder: Should I move all

@Rivera981

Answers to your questions:


Yes, you should export your articles on the new blog. This won't delete your existing articles, but will ensure everything is copied across (to allow for the other steps below).
If you've successfully exported all of your content and then redirected the old blog to your new one (using: en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ ) you should have a 1-1 match for each of your blog posts. This makes the big assumption that you have set your new self-hosted blog to match the same settings as your wordpress hosted one. There might be some minor redirections required (either hard-coded in your .htaccess file, or using a redirection plugin).
The implications are: a) ongoing costs, b) a minor traffic dip from search engines while they reassign the search value from the old domain to the new one, c) ensuring the plugins that come with the hosted version can be mirrored on your self-hosted version.

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