sacredpath
(@sacredpath)
Automattic Happiness Engineer
You cannot get to the “backend” at wordpress.com.
Have you gotten a web host, registered a domain name, and installed the software from here at ww.wp.xz.cn? All of that has to be done and set up first. You will also have to pick out a theme and upload it to your new blog if you do not want to use one of the basic ones included with the ww.wp.xz.cn software.
You then have to export your posts, pages, categories and such under manage > exports in your dashboard at wordpress.com, and then import it into your new self-hosted blog by going to manage > import in your new blog dashboard.
Links will have to be imported separately from your new blog dashboard by going to blogroll > import and entering http://sspaint.wordpress.com/wp-links-opml.php
This FAQ at wordpress.com will give you some more information: http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/how-do-i-move-between-blogs-2/
sacredpath
(@sacredpath)
Automattic Happiness Engineer
You might also look at this sticky post at the top of the forums here: http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/87351?replies=1
Thread Starter
sds111
(@sds111)
It’s for a business, otherwise I’d be all over it. None of what you mentioned is the problem. The problem is when I go to my dashboard, then to manage, then at the very top it gives the name of the blog with a “view site” message there…when I click on that I am directed to a site that doesn’t exist..hence the “no posts”
I think what happened is when I created this blog, somehow I got it mixed up with something else. My blog from which there ARE posts and which I want to export is “sspaint.wordpress.com” but the “view site” takes to the nomn-existent “scottsmithpainting.wordpress” THAT IS THE PROBLEM..and I cant figure out how to get it to direct me where it should…to sspaint.wordpress’s dashboard.