wp.com to .org migration – a couple issues

  • rjlowe

    (@rjlowe)


    11 years ago

    Overall my migration from .com to self-hosted has been pretty smooth, but I’m having a couple of issues.

    #1 – I installed Jetpack plugin in hopes that I would be able to see my old .com stats. I’m not seeing those, and I was on .com for over five years, so it will really be a bummer not to have those stats available (I sill have the .com admin panel and can login over there if needed). I’ve seen conflicting info on whether these stats will ever be visible to my self hosted site. And definite answer here?

    #2 – Google search results/redirection is broken. One of my most popular “How To” articles pops up in Google quite often, however the redirect from .com translates the URL to: http://www.lemegeton.com/blog/2011/10/03/mssql-db-migration-to-mysql/
    My self-hosted site does not have that sub-folder structure (/2011/10/03/etc etc) Is there a plugin or some other procedure I can do to correct these incoming re-directs to the correct article, whose current (real) URL is: http://www.lemegeton.com/blog/?p=1519

    Thanks!

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    11 years ago

    #1 – I installed Jetpack plugin in hopes that I would be able to see my old .com stats.

    I believe that you can contact WordPress.COM about using this link.

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

    That’s from looking at this link.

    #2 – Google search results/redirection is broken

    That may be a little more tricky. Your new location is located in the /blog/ directory and is not using fancy (pretty) permalinks. Let’s see if you can turn that on.

    If you have mod_rewrite enabled and activated for your /blog/ directory (or even if you’re not sure) then try visiting this

    http://www.lemegeton.com/blog/wp-admin/options-permalink.php

    And change the Permalink Settings from the default

    Default	http://www.lemegeton.com/blog/?p=123

    to

    Day and name	http://www.lemegeton.com/blog/2013/04/23/sample-post/

    Then visit http://www.lemegeton.com/blog/?p=1519 and see if you get redirected to the fancy permalink version.

    If you get a 404 error then visit http://www.lemegeton.com/blog/wp-admin/options-permalink.php again and switch it back to the default.

    If that works then you’ll be closer to getting that redirection working.

    Thread Starter rjlowe

    (@rjlowe)

    11 years ago

    Your tips for my issue #2 worked flawlessly! Thank you so much!

    I did submit a query to wordpress.com about the stats issue yesterday, but I’ve yet to hear back from them. (Hence my posting here) If I don’t hear back by close of business tomorrow maybe I’ll try again. It really would be a shame to lose 5+ years of statistics 🙁

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    11 years ago

    Your tips for my issue #2 worked flawlessly! Thank you so much!

    Great! Glad to help. 😉

    I’m not familiar with migrating from WordPress.COM but if you can get them to redirect the old URLs from old-wordpress-com-site/2013/04/23/you-post-here to inserting the /blog/ before the post slug (that’s the /2013/04/23/you-post-here part) then the Google search should sort itself out in time.

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