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Same name, different world: WordPress.com rents you a restricted version of the software WordPress.org gives away. We move your site to self-hosting where every theme, plugin and monetization option unlocks.
Technically yes: the export format is native. The catches are subtle: media files that keep loading from wordpress.com servers, proprietary blocks, and redirect handling from a free subdomain. We close all three properly.
WordPress.com sells a Site Redirect upgrade (~$13/year) that 301s your old subdomain to the new domain. It is worth buying for a year or two; combined with our on-site work, rankings transfer as well as they can.
Yes, via Jetpack's subscriber migration on the new site, or exported into a mailing tool you prefer. Either way you finally get the list as data you own.
Ordinary hosting from $5-15/month plus a domain. Compare with WordPress.com's Business plan at $25/month, which is what you need there just to install plugins.
Practical, first-hand articles from the team that does this every day.
Builder-by-builder reality: what Tilda, Wix and Webflow let you export, what always breaks, and the rebuild process that produces a faster WordPress copy.
Read articleCost, speed, risk and when each path wins. A decision framework for choosing between cloning an existing design and commissioning a new one.
Read articleThe pre-launch inventory, URL mapping, redirects, metadata and post-launch monitoring that keep Google rankings intact through a site move.
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