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GoneOffShore

(17,345 posts) Tue Jan 23, 2018, 04:12 AM Jan 2018

WordPress blog question

Mrs GoS has a WordPress blog with its own domain name and our provider has just raised the hosting rate. We want to move it over the the free WordPress site. We put it up around 4 years ago and the guy that helped us with it isn't around anymore.
Any thoughts on how we can keep the features of the hosted site? I know we can keep the content.
We got a lot of things going on right now and I don't have time to re-learn WordPress.

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WordPress blog question (Original Post) GoneOffShore Jan 2018 OP

If you need it to be free, then sweetroxie Jan 2018 #1

Thank you. I shall investigate. GoneOffShore Jan 2018 #2

I did get it done! Yay! I don't think I was actually asking the right question. GoneOffShore Feb 2018 #3

sweetroxie

(776 posts)

1. If you need it to be free, then

Reply to GoneOffShore (Original post)

Tue Jan 23, 2018, 10:03 AM

Jan 2018

you'll need to move it to Wordpress.com. Then will host your site for free if you're OK with having the URL be something like www.goneoffshore.com/wordpress. You can get that for free.You can get rid of the /wordpress by paying something. You can choose a new theme there and export/import your content to the new site. You'll have to do some diddling to make it look like your old site.

GoneOffShore

(17,345 posts)

2. Thank you. I shall investigate.

Reply to sweetroxie (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 23, 2018, 12:32 PM

Jan 2018

GoneOffShore

(17,345 posts)

3. I did get it done! Yay! I don't think I was actually asking the right question.

Reply to sweetroxie (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 8, 2018, 03:33 AM

Feb 2018

My nephew turns out to be a bit of a WordPress wizard and sent me a link which was super easy to follow. https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/view-all/

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