189 – Easily Move Your Site from WordPress.com to Self-Hosted
Announcements
WordPress 4.0 Beta is now available to download and begin testing.
Some cool new things to look at in the beta are:
- Media Library has a grid view
- Plugin installation screen has been refreshed
- Select a language as you install WordPress
- The editor toolbar stays in one place as you scroll
- More emphasis in the Customizer
Is there a plugin for that?
With more than 50,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, it’s hard to find the perfect one. Each week, I will highlight an interesting plugin form the repository.
For more great plugins, download my 50 Most Useful Plugins eBook.
This week, I share about a great plugin called iThemes Sync. This plugin allows you to manage the updates for all of your WordPress sites in one dashboard. Plus if you are a BackupBuddy user, you can initiate a backup of your site, right from the dashboard.
They also have an iOS app, which makes it extremely simple to keep your sites updated on the go.
Easily Move Your Site from WordPress.com to self-hosted WordPress
Perhaps you started with the free version of WordPress, it’s possible to move all of your content to a more robust self-hosted version of WordPress. The setup isn’t too tricky, but it does take a little bit of time to move everything to a new server.
Hosting
- Set up your hosting company A2 Hosting or Flywheel
- Install WordPress (if not using A2 or Flywheel)
- Install Jetpack and connect to your WordPress.com account
Save Current Content
- Export by using Tools -> Export
- Make sure to export everything
Configure New Site
- Use the import plugin to import all posts / pages / comments
- Add theme via Appearance menu of Dashboard
- Or upload a premium theme
- Customize new theme
Add Plugins
- Add Akismet, Backup Plugin
- Find other plugins that you’d like to use
Redirect your domain
- Change your name servers to new server
- Wait
- Prosper
