migrating from wordpress.com to .org

  • Hi, I am migrating from WordPress.com to .org. I managed to export all my files from WordPress.com. I uploaded to my host’s (Blue Host’s) site temporarily. So I can see what it looks like before I name change the servers. I somehow managed to make the whole site look like the original one on www.ads-software.com. But lot of posts lost their layout. Some of the text moved around and started to look all jumbled up.

    You can view the posts on my temporary site here 66.147.244.132/~sohostre/
    Posts on the first page look ok but the problem arises starting with 2nd page. Can anyone please tell me why this is happening. And hopefully I will be able to fix it.

    Thank you,
    V.

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  • Are you using the same theme on your self-hosted site as you were on your wordpress.com site?

    Thread Starter vannapragal

    (@vannapragal)

    Hi Esmi,

    Thanks for the reply! Ya I am using the same theme.

    Were you aware that themes on wordpress.com have often undergone extensive customisations compared to their freely available counterparts? Where did you download the theme from?

    Thread Starter vannapragal

    (@vannapragal)

    it is just twenty ten theme. I downloaded it from the themes menu.

    That is not the original Twenty Ten theme.

    Thread Starter vannapragal

    (@vannapragal)

    I don’t know what you mean by not original theme. Is there anything I can do to fix it.

    Thanks for your help!

    The display for the original 2010 theme can be seen at https://www.ads-software.com/themes/twentyten

    You theme does not look like this. All of the links are orange, for a state. So someone has been editing the theme instead of using a child theme or install a custom CSS plugin. Do you know who edited the theme and exactly what they changed?

    Thread Starter vannapragal

    (@vannapragal)

    I have been editing the site in the appearance section. Am I not supposed to do that?

    Thanks,

    Any changes you’ve made to theme files (via Appearances > Editor or by any other method) will be overwritten and lost when WP is updated. To avoid that, you should be using a Child Theme for that kind of customization.

    Thread Starter vannapragal

    (@vannapragal)

    whoa that sounds super complicated!!!

    Not really – are you familiar with using FTP and creating files with a plain text editor? That’s about all it takes, though if you’ve made changes already, you’ll have some extra work to do to move them to a child theme. But losing all your work when WP is updated is by far a worse situation :/ .

    Thread Starter vannapragal

    (@vannapragal)

    I guess I will give it a try. I do not want to suffer later when WP is updated. I guess I am just gonna have to lose all my changes for the third time and start over. Hopefully this will be the last time.

    Thank you for your help.

    Good thinking, but you don’t necessarily need to lose all of them ?? – what theme files have you changed?

    Thread Starter vannapragal

    (@vannapragal)

    I don’t know what files in particular I changed, but I pretty much changed every font, color. font size, image placement and what ever else the theme let me do. What do you mean by what theme files?

    Thread Starter vannapragal

    (@vannapragal)

    Can I just create a file and folder on Bluehost’s filemanager page? So I can eliminate FTPing that file altogether..

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