Transfering hosting for an existing WordPress blog to a custom url at Go Daddy

  • gallivantinggreengirl

    (@gallivantinggreengirl)


    16 years ago

    I started a blog in wordpress last week. I’ll call it myblog.wordpress.com

    Then I got a custom url hosted with go daddy. (mynewdomain.com)

    I would like to use WordPress (WP) as the backend for the site’s blog, but have the actual site hosted by Go Daddy so I can do affiliate marketing and e-commerce and email hosting and other stuff that WP doesn’t support, so I just installed the WP application.

    Now mynewdomain.com points to a virgin WP blog template without the custom theme options I’m already using for myblog.wordpress.com. I’d like to be able to use the content, theme, etc that I already established in myblog.wordpress.com if possible.

    All i can find in the forums is directions for domain mapping that tell me i have to change the nameservers to ns1-3.wordpress.com but go
    daddy support says that will make wordpress the host instead of go daddy.

    I thought that i would be able to point the current content from
    myblog.wordpress.com to mynewdomain.com but i can’t figure out how to do that. do i have to recreate all of my content in the self-hosted version? how do people who’ve had blogs here for years make this transition?

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  • zeniph

    (@zeniph)

    unfortunately it wont work as magically as you’d wish. You cant “point” you old content and use your new installation at the same time.

    you need to migrate your old content over

    perhaps simplest is to try manage/export from your old blog, then manage/import on the new one

    I have the same problem…the import solution is all there is?

    as far as the theme template is concerned you can download the current theme that you are using on WordPress.com and install it on your Godaddy host account. I would think though that the wordpress client they offer would already have all of the default themes available under the themes tab. And then all you need do is export your posts from your wordpress account into your GODADDY wordpress blog using the export import function.

    Was there any kind of resolution to this? I noticed that it was posted 8 months ago and today I am facing the exact same challeng. Any ideas?

    again theres no magic solution (that I know of..!)

    you just need to export from old site then import it to your new one – its not hard.

    If your old wordpress.com site is still live the import process will even suck in and upload all your images.

    (btw I’ve never had a wordpress.com account, Im just assuming here that it would have an export option as a stand-alone installation does)

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