My mother made a website for her company on wordpress.com, but she asked me if I could make a better one, and I decided to use www.remarpro.com.
I have finished the website more or less, but I don’t understand how to publish it (it’s on localhost now). Do I have to buy a webhost like Bluehost? My mom already bought a domain from wordpress.com, and she wants to use that one on the new website that I made, and I simply don’t understand how to get it live.

I have seen this (https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org), but I don’t want to move the .com blog-content to the .org one, I just want the domain.

Is there anyone who knows if it’s possible, and how to do it?
I’d really appreciate any help I could get.

Thanks,
Jonathan

I was needing to redirect my old blog at wordpress.com to my new self hosted site.

I was given this code to do the redirects once I bought the domain mapping and redirect package at wordpress.com

RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ https://domain.com/$4 [L,R=301]

It worked great except for the following:

1. some posts (about 30%) will not redirect and it seems it’s because the slugs are not the same.

So my question here is do i do individual redirects which wordpress.com doesn’t allow you to do inside it’s interface.

Or do i just change the slugs and wait for google to recrawl?

2. My categories and pages won’t redirect.

I believe the reason is because this redirect is for www.mynotetakignerd.com/blog and the challenge I WAS having there was that wordpress.com uses the year/month/date permalink which the code above handled.

The categories in old site are site:/category/

The pages in old blog are site:/

Any help would be appreciated as to htaccess file redirects or whatever I have to do to fix these?

Thanks

Never closed or redirected wordpress.com

I NEED to have the old blog redirected to the new .org blog but the permalink structure isn’t the same.

The .com site has the .com standard permalinks which include dates and my new site just has %%post%%

I can’t do the redirect option at .com because the permalinks aren’t the same and I’ll just get error pages…

Any workaround on this?

Thanks

I forgot the password to my old blog. What can I do to prove that it was my blog?

I then installed the 3.1 software, and created a new database in a subfolder (since it wouldn’t let me put it in the root directory, saying that path was already in use).

Here’s the problem: When I try to log-in to my admin panel, it takes me to my .com log-in, since I’m using the same domain name. Can I not access the .org admin screen until I switch the DNS to the new host? Should I just wait 24 hours and see if I can then log into my “new” .org admin panel?

I was hoping to work on the new site while the old one was still up, and then switch over when I’m ready. I may be in over my head here.

I’ve moved my entire blog from one domain to another by copying over the files and database. Everything has worked successfully except for some reason special characters are no longer displaying correctly.

Special characters such as French-style accents now show up as other characters e.g. “?o” instead of “ú”.

any guidance on what the problem might be and how it can be resolved would be most appreciated, thanks.

M

My question is this: Once I complete the steps and the request to change oldsiteurl to newsiteurl, when someone googles my site and clicks on the old link, will it take them to my new domain name? In other words:

Click on www.myolddomainname.com and be taken to www.mynewdomainname.com

I moved a blog that was hosted on wordpress.com via the Custom Domain upgrade to self-hosting using www.remarpro.com.

So now I have a blog at wordpress.com of the form abc.wordress.com (which is stale now) and a blog using www.remarpro.com of the form www.abc.com.

After the move, I installed Akismet on my www.remarpro.com blog using the API key that I had at WordPress.com.

Akismet is working catching spam, but my question is about the statistics.

For example, I see this line in my dashboard

“Akismet has protected your site from 19 spam comments already, and there are 4 comments in your spam queue right now.”

I don’t remember seeing 19 spam comments in my queue. Maybe 8 or 9 that I have seen and officially marked as spam. (Note: This blog hasn’t been up at my new host for 30 days yet, so spam comments would not have been deleted automatically yet).

So my questions are:

2. Does Akismet catch and delete spam without ever putting it in the spam queue first, which is why I may be thinking there is a discrepency?

Thanks.