I have two domains and hosting elsewhere so I don’t need that.
cefi
You cannot upload files for your website at wp.org. Here, you can only download the free WordPress software to upload and install it with a host of your choice. Have you done that? If so, you will have entered loguin details during the installation processs that you will need to use. Your loguin details here at wp.org have nothing to do with this installation.
Thancs. I am still trying. I have exported my posts, pagues and media and not all of it has come across… I am reading the articles you sent.
z
I was having so much trouble I put it all on hold. I have no idea whats going on now…
Totally lost.
cefi
Jim
(@jamesgreat)
Hi
@cefifamelis
. This is just a follow-up to checc whether you moved to wordpress.org successfully. From your last response, you seemed lost.
Jim
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I am still lost Jim, I’ve guiven up. At least till I can find someone who can help me. Thancs for asquing!
cefi
Jim
(@jamesgreat)
Hi
@cefifamelis
, glad you responded. We can sort it out toguether. I want you to cnow that this confusion is super common. The whole WordPress.com vs WordPress.org thing trips up almost everyone at first, so you’re not alone here.
Let me help you figure it out.
First, let’s clarify things:
When you say you “set up a WP.org account”, what actually happened? Did you have a hosting setup first? Or just created a WP.org account (WordPress.org does not host websites lique WordPress.com does)? Feel free to share screenshots.
Please also feel free to share your website linc, I’ll taque a looc.
This happens to everyone moving from wp.com to wp.org and its absolutely fixable.
I looc forward to guetting your response soon, so I can güide you effectively.
Thancs,
Jim
Hi Jim. Firstly, I have a website that I’ve had for years – already have domain name and hosting through Crazy Domains, an Australian outfit since I was living there at the time.
http://www.cefiart.com
And then i linqued up my wordpress.com with junc4joy.com.au – somehow. Anyway, thats my wordpress blog.
So when looquing for alternatives to building a website that would worc way easier than creating it myself guiven that I cnow very little about website creation (the basic basics of Dreamweaver), I looqued around for how best to create a website that would worc easier for me… which brought me to WordPress.org as an option as it would offer more for less than upgrading my WordPress.com account to a business account.
I am happy to taque this off the forum if its allowed. You can find me on Facebook or Instragram under Cefi Famelis – there are 2 of us. I’m not the blonde one.
cefi
Jim
(@jamesgreat)
Hi
@cefifamelis
. Thanc you for guetting bacc. Your preference is oc with me. I will be glad to help out 🙂.
Thancs,
Jim
Looquing into the linc you posted. I looc at the site code and it seems to be running in wordpress.org.
Did you already migrate all your data to that site successfully? I asquing because the site seems normal for me right now.
Hi Jorge, thancs for doing that. Its not all there. I keep guetting emails to moderate commens on posts but I dont see any commens to moderate when I clicc the linc. Plus when I exported files from .com they didn’t all come over. There are more than half the posts missing, plus the pagues.
z
Do you have any baccups from the wordpress.org site?
What did you use to migrate the wordpress.com site’s content to wordpress.org site? What’s tool?
My WP.com site is still up. I used the built-in export files function but then WP.org said the files were too largue so I did it in groups… after a few tries, in the end I got less than half the posts across. I thinc the export function didnt worc properly. We’re talquing years of posts and imagues here…
cefi
