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1. littlepieceofpie
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   I had my blog on wordpress.com until recently when I had it moved over to wordpress.org. I had about a hundred wordpress followers and email subscribers who would receive updates when I created a post. I now have to manually resubscribe these followers to my .org blog, I have installed the subscribe2 widget/plugin and have downloaded the list of email subscribers and resubscribed them, that's great. My problem is that I don't know how to resubscribe the people following me through wordpress, I can't see where I can download the list. Is it possible to do?

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   I don't think that's possible. wordpress.com followers are purely internal to wordpress.com.

3. littlepieceofpie
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   ugh, that is not good news, should have looked into that before I moved it! thanks for your reply

4. jonnydrury
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Not true esmi - you CAN see your WP.com followers:

   Go to your Site Stats page (from your blog's Dashboard). There is a 'Totals, Subscriptions, and Shares' module - click the subscribers link in that module then active followers > email followers.

   Cheers!

   Jonny
   [sig moderated as per the Forum Rules]

5. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Not in a self-hosted WordPress site.

6. jonnydrury
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   O i see what you mean, well can't he just put in each email on the front?

7. littlepieceofpie
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   It is the wordpress followers that I want to move to my self hosted WP blog, I don't have email addresses for them, they are following through the wordpress.com system, so i think Esmi is correct and I can't transfer them to follow my blog, which sucks because it's the same blog just with a different hosting. It's really annoying.

8. jonnydrury
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   OK well send a post on the old blog which explains everything politely and the upgrade and how things are improving etc etc... and why they should 'click here' and resubscribe ' to avoid minimum disruption' to receiving more exciting posts etc...!

   Then after a week delete the old blog.

   Best wishes

   Jon

9. jonnydrury
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   So you did look where I sasid earlier and there were no email adresses?

10. ericswett
    Member
    Posted 6 months ago #

    Just checking in on the thread because I'm interested in moving subscribers from my .com to my .org. Has anyone found any good plugins for this or is the post and hope method all we have?

11. Ynnis
    Member
    Posted 3 weeks ago #

    jonnydrury is correct in that you can download your email subscribers (go to "Totals, Followers & Shares" in your "Site Stats" on wordpress.com. You'll see links to 'blog' and 'comments' followers. "email followers" can be downloaded as .csv) but Esmi is correct in the sense that you can't download a list of wordpress.com subscribers (non-email). Does anyone else have a solution to this?

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