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How To Migrate An Existing Wordpress.com Site
Migrating an Existing WordPress.com Site
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This article can assist if the WordPress blog is hosted on WordPress.com. Just follow these steps to export and import the data.
- Login to the WordPress Dashboard.
- Click Tools.
- Click Export.
- Click Download Export File.
- Login to the WordPress Dashboard at the new domain name.
- Click on Tools and then select Import.
- Scroll down the page to the bottom.
- Click the link that says WordPress.
- Click Browse and open the file that was exported.
- Click Upload file and import.
- Create or select the author for all posts.
- Mark the checkbox for import file attachments.
- Click Submit.
The WordPress blog has now been imported.
Some larger sites require you to increase the PHP memory, upload size and execution time. If you run into a memory issue importing a large file please see How to Increase the PHP Memory Limit
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