export blog

Grab this plugin: https://www.technosailor.com/wordpress-to-wordpress-import/

Read the instructions.

Do an export from your current blog and save it to a file.
Then go to your WP.COM blog and look at the Import options. (manage -> Import | WordPress)

i am unable to use the plugin from that blog– no way to upload plug in on my dashboard. My current blog does not have an export ability…only SQL backup.

You don’t upload the plugin from your dashboard. You upload it using your ftp client or your host control panel file-manager.

well i guess that is the problem since my blog is through a host who will not reply to my emails. The whole reason I got a new blog was because my host provider stopped updating my blog after it got hacked. So now I have no way to transfer my blog from here to my .com blog without contacting him?

You should have some way to upload files – you have a username and password, right? Try putting those into your ftp client and see if you can connect.

what if I don’t have an ftp client?

How about using google to search for “free ftp clients”?

I think Windows explorer is an ftp client–but I need an address–what address am I supposed to use. Sorry I am totally ignorant to this stuff.

Haven’t a clue. You’ll have to provide your website address before anyone can help you any further it looks like.

If your plugin files are editable, you can copy the contents of the export file over top of, say, hello.php. Not recommended though as if you mess up (i.e. add white space before or after the plugin), you will have blocked yourself from accessing your blog.

However, if you’re daring (and careful) there is a way…