How to migrate from wordpress.com to self-hosted wordpress

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Did you check your folder structure ?

did you rename the wordpress folder ?

have nested folders ?

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@ allan z – that will not (always) work for an existing site , due to a multitude of reasons .

the best way is to either follow these instructions here :
Moving wordpress to another server

or , do it manually , like I usually do , which is :

1. FTP ALL your files to the new server. (ALL means ALL, as is – including images, plugins, theme)

2. Update wp-config with new data. (install folder, DB…)

3. manually execute those SQL sentences :

   /**
   To update WordPress options with the new blog location:
   **/

   UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://www.old-domain.com’, ‘http://www.new-domain.com’) WHERE option_name=”home” OR option_name=”siteurl”;

   /**
   fix URLs of the WordPress posts and pages:
   **/

   UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, ‘http://www.old-domain.com’,’http://www.new-domain.com’);

   /**
   fix all internal links to own blog in all WordPress posts and pages:
   **/

   UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, ‘http://www.old-domain.com’, ‘http://www.new-domain.com’);