Transferring Website from one Domain to another

Does this help?

Cheers

PAE

This does thank you peredur. Maybe it’s because I didn’t read slowly enough for me, but if I am going to be keeping it on the same server and hosting, but just need it to be hosted on drgary instead of idocresource, would this be moving within the site?

Sorry for my noobness on this topic.

No-one has to apologise for “noobness”. If anyone suggests you do, send them to me.

And the answer is ‘Yes’.

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PAE

Thanks Peredur

I have a similar issue. My wife’s blog is sweepingtheusa.wordpress.com but we want to drop the wordpress from the url. Is there a way to do so without losing the progress made on creating her site?

@rydray1

I don’t think that transferring from wordpress.com to a self-hosted site is as simple as that. There is a facility you can pay for, for a redirect but I’m not sure what it does.

I think you’d be best talking to the WordPress.com support people for this. Unless anyone here knows better, of course.

Cheers

PAE

Being so incredibly new to this, i’m feeling I may have left out needed details. We are going through godaddy for her site. I had been (trying to) work on the regular sweepingtheusa.com w/o the wordpress in her address bar, but was falling short in details like background color, links, etc. She started working on things herself last night at sweepingtheusa.wordpress.com and is hoping that, since we have wordpress through godaddy, we can still “move” it over. Maybe I just rambled on what you’ve already answered……I hope not.

I don’t understand why the fact you’re using godaddy would make any difference.

When you set up and work on a wordpress.com site you are using wordpress.com’s (restricted) access to their WordPress set up to run a site on their server. You can buy a domain (from any registrar) and have wordpress.com point that domain at your wordpress.com site, I think, but that doesn’t change the setup.

When you set up wordpress installation at godaddy (who are just a Web hosting company as far as I know), you are setting up a standalone wordpress installation on the web server space you’ve bought from godaddy. It has no relation with wordpress.com that I am aware of.

Maybe I just don’t understand how godaddy works. I’m in Wales so they don’t really come on my radar.

So, from where I’m sitting I would have thought you wanted to talk to wordpress.com about what you can do to move a site to your own web hosting space at godaddy.

If they can’t help you, you will have it all to set up again from scratch, I’m afraid.

But, as I say, I may be making some mistaken assumptions here.

Cheers

PAE