How can I transfer followers from WordPress.com to a self-hosted WordPress?
Self-hosted blogs use RSS for subscriptions. As far as “liking” goes, that only makes sense within the quasi-social-network environment of WordPress.com.
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WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
WordPress.com is web service. WordPress.org is software product. Think bus vs car. You can ride both, but bus is owned by someone else and what you can do with it is limited.
Implications of changing wordpress.com associated with Jetpack [closed]
Your stats and subscribers are stored on WordPress.com, and associated to your site URL. The WordPress.com account used to connect Jetpack to WordPress.com doesn’t matter. If you disconnect Jetpack from WordPress.com and then reconnect with another WordPress.com account, all the data associated to that site URL will be back in your dashboard. You won’t lose … Read more
Do I need to use a new WordPress.com account for each Jetpack installation
Nope, you only need it to activate. I use it on 4 sites with same account.
Ads Restricted on WordPress.com?
This is irrelevant if you’re self-hosting your site. WordPress.com is a free hosting site run by the company Automattic. Since it’s run by a private company, they set the rules and restrict advertising. WordPress.org is the homepage of the open source project called WordPress. You can download WordPress from this site and install it on … Read more
How to search and replace text in all posts of a wordpress.com blog (NOT wordpress.org one)?
You have at least three different ways: 1) Edit directly in the database. The content of the post is stored in post_content column of wp_posts table. Since you are running your own WordPress, you should have full access to that. Just use SQL to do search and replace. Remember, the table content is sort-of HTML, … Read more
Creating external apps WordPress / How they work
WordPress features a very rich XML-RPC interface that you can work with from external applications. It provides you access to most of the functionality you’d have directly in the admin – write posts, edit posts, edit comments, create/edit categories, manage site options, upload files, etc. As a matter of fact, certain third-party applications are already … Read more
Migrating from WordPress.com to self-hosted site and autoforward visitors?
The easiest way to do this without losing your traffic is to use the WordPress.com Site Redirect. It keeps the yourblog.wordpress.com address active and points traffic to your new yourblog.com domain. You would be essentially paying the registration fee for your old domain at $12.00/year. Periodically through this process you should be informing your readers … Read more
Import and export links from WordPress.com to private site
If you’re going from WP to WP, then you want to use the built-in exporter and importer. Your links should come along with it. I’m not sure about the categories with it, but this might help http://ellejohara.com/blog/making-the-wordpress-opml-tool-slightly-more-useful/
Reblog wordpress.com posts on self hosted
Try something like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/ or another RSS aggregator.