This article describes how to move your blog from WordPress.com to a self-hosted WordPress blog on your own domain. After following this guide, you will have a fully functional, standalone, self-hosted WordPress blog.
Before You Begin
- This guide describes moving everything – including images – from your WordPress.com blog. In other words, your blog should function perfectly even if WordPress.com were not live.
- Make sure you have installed the latest version of WordPress on your self-hosted blog. In my case, I used 2.8.4.
- For a good overview of the process, read Remarkablogger’s post.
- Download and read the step-by-step guide (PDF) written by the gracious folks at BlogWell here, which covers the domain redirection part very well.
