Title: Migrating to wordpress.com help
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Migrating to wordpress.com help

 *  [lorigreenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorigreenberg/)
 * (@lorigreenberg)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-to-wordpresscom-help/)
 * I’m not savvy when it comes to all of this so I want to transfer to wordpress.
   com from my wordpress.org blog. (beadnerd.com/blog/)
 * I spent all day trying to figure out why I don’t have permissions to things I
   once had permissions to, like managing my links. I don’t seem to be able to manage
   anything but posts I’ve made and I can’t figure out what happened.
 * So, now I’ve decided, enough is enough, time to transfer to wordpress.com and
   I need to download plugins to generate an xml file. Which I did. But if I can’t
   get to my plug-ins, what good will that do.
 * Can anyone help me? PLEASE? I promise to leave you .org-ers alone then. 🙂

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 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-to-wordpresscom-help/#post-492036)
 * Well…. I’m not sure that can be done…. if it could, there should be an “import”
   option somewhere in your wordpress.com blog admin section.
 * .com blogs don’t allow you to do plugins, special themes, OR business sites….
 *  Thread Starter [lorigreenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorigreenberg/)
 * (@lorigreenberg)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-to-wordpresscom-help/#post-492040)
 * There is an import option but it is requesting that I:
 * “Upload your WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) file and we’ll import the posts, comments,
   custom fields, and categories into this blog.
 * Choose a WordPress WXR file to upload, then click Upload file and import.”
 * The thing is, I don’t have a WXR file, that I know of so I researched it and 
   found the directions to getting one made. link here:
 * [http://www.technosailor.com/wordpress-to-wordpress-import](http://www.technosailor.com/wordpress-to-wordpress-import)
 * The thing is, it’s a plug-in for wordpress.org blogs and I can’t access my plug-
   ins because they’ve disappeared from my ‘manage’ options (as has my ability to
   update links or themes)
 * any idea how to restore those options?
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-to-wordpresscom-help/#post-492041)
 * Huh…. no, since I’ve never had that occur before. Did you install anything new
   just before that happened? If not, did you check with your host to see if THEY
   did something?
 * Other than wordpress.com and blogrunn.com, there’s also [http://www.transycan.net/start-blogging/](http://www.transycan.net/start-blogging/)–
   which while not free is VERY reasonable, and doesn’t care if you’re trying to
   run a business, etc.
 *  Thread Starter [lorigreenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorigreenberg/)
 * (@lorigreenberg)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-to-wordpresscom-help/#post-492058)
 * Thank you. I transferred to a Mac and was trying to fix the problem where the
   quicktags didn’t appear. I finally got that fixed then realized I no longer had
   any admin capabilities other than writing a post and editing a handful of my 
   recent posts. I can’t edit older posts of my own now. Something strange happened.
 * Someone please help…how do I get my plug-in and other admin abilities back. I
   also get the “you don’t have sufficient permissions” to even add a link to my
   blog.

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 * Last reply from: [lorigreenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorigreenberg/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-to-wordpresscom-help/#post-492058)
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