Title: Problems moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Problems moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org * Resolved [siandwilliams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/siandwilliams/) * (@siandwilliams) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-moving-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg-1/) * Hi, * At the start of the year I mapped my website (www.sianwilliams.net) to WordPress. com. In doing that, one of my blogs become and automatic redirect to sianwilliams. net. I have been designing my wesbite using the themes available in WordPress. com. I recently bought custom design for WordPress.com so that I could do a little more editing. I am not finding that I do not have that much freedom with the design as I cannot edit the full CSS. I have therefore made the move from WordPress. com to WordPress.org. In doing this I bought webhosting with Dreamhost. Everything installed ok but when I went to use the ‘WordPress one click’ install on Dreamhost I received an error messaging saying my website is already on WordPress. I am unsure of what to do as my website is still showing on WordPress.com and I don’t know how to make that stop so I can use WordPress.org on Dreamhost. Can anyone help me out? I am beginning to stress! * Thanks, siandwilliams Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Thread Starter [siandwilliams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/siandwilliams/) * (@siandwilliams) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-moving-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg-1/#post-3367986) * I apologise for the typos: * Here we go, take 2: * Hi, * At the start of the year I mapped my website (www.sianwilliams.net) to WordPress. com. In doing that, one of my blogs became an automatic redirect to sianwilliams. net. I have been designing my wesbite using the themes available in WordPress. com. I recently bought custom design for WordPress.com so that I could do a little more editing. I am now finding that I do not have that much freedom with the custom design as I cannot edit the full CSS. I have therefore made the move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. In doing this I bought webhosting with Dreamhost. Everything installed ok but when I went to use the ‘WordPress one click’ install on Dreamhost I received an error messaging saying my website is already on WordPress. I am unsure of what to do as my website is still showing on WordPress.com and I don’t know how to make that stop so I can use WordPress.org on Dreamhost. Can anyone help me out? I am beginning to stress! * Thanks, siandwilliams * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-moving-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg-1/#post-3368019) * You need to use a temporary url to install WordPress on your own hosting if your domain name is still pointing to your wordpress.com site. * [Mika Epstein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu-dh/) * (@ipstenu-dh) * DreamHost Rep * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-moving-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg-1/#post-3368044) * You have WordPress installed on sianwilliams.net at DreamHost 🙂 I can see it and if you visit your site, you get the setup screen. * Thread Starter [siandwilliams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/siandwilliams/) * (@siandwilliams) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-moving-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg-1/#post-3368069) * Thanks guys!!! * [we-love-wood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/we-love-wood/) * (@we-love-wood) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-moving-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg-1/#post-3368152) * I moved my blog from WordPress.com to my new site on WordPress.org (exciting stuff) * But after having done so – I have no access to my old website! and when I log onto wordpress.com the blog is not in my folder! The website still is on the web! * I used Dashboard – blogs – transfer blog (and I also imported my xml after exporting it) * Didn’t think you then have no access to the entire website thought it only moved the blog – its lost all stats, contacts, and subscribed viewers * Any ideas!!! * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-moving-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg-1/#post-3368153) * **[@we-love-wood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/we-love-wood/)** – please start a new thread – this one is outdated, already marked resolved and not the same issue as yours. * You can do so here: * [http://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform](http://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform) Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘Problems moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [dreamhost](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dreamhost/) * [move domains](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/move-domains/) * [move website](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/move-website/) * [wordpress.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-com/) * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 6 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-moving-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg-1/#post-3368153) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics