Take control over your site: move it from WordPress.com to your own servers. Your data can be migrated to a WordPress.org blog with considerable ease.
I’ve been maintaining a diary since my children were born in 2011, which I intend to one day publish for them to read. The contents are pretty verbose and combine their achievements with what is happening in the world, the state of the nation, and advice on making the right choices and living the right way.
The bulk of the diary resides online on my WordPress.com account – but I’ve decided that I would rather have more control over it. Although WordPress.com offers blogging accounts (and much more – the main reason I signed up was for stats management for my self-hosted blogs, although other stats plugins are available) it can prove inflexible in some ways, especially when you’re already experienced with the WordPress.org way of doing things. Here’s why I did that, and how.
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