: How do you transfer a domain hosted on WordPress to Media Temple? WordPress offers this service for 0, but I think that's too much. Is there an easy way to do this besides paying the wordpress

@Sarah324

I would approach this in the following manner:


Download an export file from your Wordpress.com blog. Make sure to tick the option about downloading attachments as well.
"Move" your domain to Media Temple. The question here is where you bought your domain. If on Wordpress.com, then I have no idea if they offer a way to change DNS settings but they should. If not, you will surely have access to some sort an admin tool to do it. What you need to do is to change DNS servers to Media Temple's (ns1.mediatemple.net and ns2.mediatemple.net). Then you need to log in to your Media Temple account and "add" this domain so that its zone file is created and tied with your MT hosting.
Install Worpdress on Media Temple under your domain. You can do it either by hand (using FTP and manually creating the database) or automatically, using MT's installer. Your choice. The result is the same, meaning a clean Worpdress install.
Use import option in your new, MT-hosted Wordpress to recover your posts, pages, links, attachments e.t.c.


You should be good to go.

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