Yes.
Just install the ‘basic default installation of WordPress’ on your .com domain.
Then login to your .com domain site and install All In One Migration plugins.
Then take the file you downloaded from the .org site – and go:
Admin –> All In One Migraiton –> Import From –> File.
Done.
🙂
Thanks for the quick reply!
Being an author rather than a web designer, I’m really technically and terminology-challenged here. When you say “install the ‘basic default installation of WordPress’ on your .com domain,” that sounds super-easy, but I’m not sure what that means. Do I just use the basic WordPress download found online, or is this accessible from my .org dashboard (if so, I don’t see it).
I did do the basic WP download online on my Windows 11 PC, and extracted/unzipped the files. but I can’t run the installation for some reason — in my downloads file I see a long list of files, including an install and install-help file — but nothing that runs the installation when clicked or opened. It wasn’t this difficult when I created my first WP site — but I think I’m barking up the wrong tree. Other downloads I’ve done recently automatically install.
Thanks for your patience. Please explain what I’m doing wrong or not seeing. I’ll get there.
Login to your host:
https://cp1.your-hosting.net/login/?next=start¬ice=login
Create a domain called http://naturalhistoryman.com
Wait for the http://naturalhistoryman.com domain to be available over the internet.
Use your control panel at your host to install WordPress at http://naturalhistoryman.com
Install the All In One Migration plugin at http://naturalhistoryman.com
Using All In One Migration, upload the .wpress file you downloaded from http://naturalhistoryman.org/
Remove the WordPress installation http://naturalhistoryman.org/
Use the control panel to insert a Redirect from http://naturalhistoryman.org/ –> http://naturalhistoryman.com
Thanks for your help — very clear and explicit instructions. I did log into the host. Conferring with its staff, I was told to unhost the .org and then add the .com host, which I did. But I was not able to install the WordPress for the .com for reason the host support staff will not explain.
Thanks again for your help. I’m probably just going to drop out of the website world completely. I previously created a WordPress site with no problem on my own, but the host, which I would not recommend to anyone, is making the migration process too garbled to follow.
This is unfortunate.
For a dev, this entire process should take about 15 minutes. But if this is outside your world, I can understand how people get get lost in the process, terminology, etc.
You can find a cheap dev on things live fiverr.com or freelancer.com or upwork.com – the bigger issue IMO is trust as you will need to hand over your login creds, etc, etc.
https://www.fiverr.com/categories/programming-tech/wordpress-services/backup-cloning-migration?source=category_filters
Thanks — actually, with the help of the ServMask support person who could communicate more clearly I finally was able to piece it together and do the import at the new domain. So your help was not in vain.
Now that the new website, raymondwiggers.com, is up, I notice the text and photos of the old site were imported, but not the overall design template I’d used before. I gather this is normal in an import, and I have to redo all that — but correct me if I’m wrong.
Thanks again. I’ll keep your dev advice in hand if ever I get ensnared like this again.
If you use the All In One Migration tool, it should be identical.
Yes. Thanks. When I reloaded it and looked at it in page view, it was. All perfect.
