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1. Alexandre Vallières-Lagacé
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi,

   I am planing to move from wordpress.com to a self-hosted solution and I will use this guide : http://blog-well.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/how-to-redirect-a-wordpresscom-blog.pdf

   Looks simple enough, but what about my stats on the Statistics tab?
   Will they continue to work?

   Any other thing I need to watch out for when doing the move?

2. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 3 years ago #

   See this:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/

3. Alexandre Vallières-Lagacé
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Yes, I knew about that plugin, but will it keep track seemlessly from wp.com to my host?

4. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 3 years ago #

   No, probably not. But then there's probably no way to do that anyway, that plugin will simply let your stats continue to be on WordPress.com.

5. Alexandre Vallières-Lagacé
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Geez, I was hoping to continue from where I left. You see I display the number of visitors so this means I will go from 45,000 to 0 overnight :(

   Nobody knows a trick to make that work ?

   I see in the source that my blog has the GA ID, can't I continue using this?

   <script type="text/javascript">
   var wpcomPageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-xxxxx-x");
   wpcomPageTracker._setDomainName("wordpress.com");
   wpcomPageTracker._initData();
   wpcomPageTracker._trackPageview();
   </script>

6. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 3 years ago #

   No, you can't. It really does not work that way, and attempting to make it work will likely annoy the wordpress.com people who will then proceed to ban you.

   Don't worry about it. Your stats will go up immediately because you'll be redirecting the visitors to the new site now, right?

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