James, thank you for your feedback. I’ve set all pages and posts to private now. Installed the Jetpack. It did bring some widgets back, but not all of them. Most of their features are using WordPress.com infrastructure anyway…So, where is that promised freedom once you are on WP.org…don’t know yet.
I am still wondering, if there is a plugin that would do a magic and transfer all the photo galleries from WP.com. to WP.org.?
