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WordPress.com is a great platform for users who want to easily create a free website or blog. With more than 23 billion pageviews in 2010, the service is a hit with millions of users.

Premium themes are now available to WordPress.com, but the nature of the system can be still limits what plugin can be used and how deeply customized a design and the overall structure of the site.

For this reason, it is natural that some users of WordPress.com will take the jump to independent of WordPress.org software.

Transition from WordPress.com to WordPress.org may seem disheartening--especially for users who have a lot of content and multimedia already hosted on WordPress.com. That's why we decided to put together this screencast that walks through the entire process from start to finish.

Note: This process involves moving from a WordPress.com blog exists to an existing installation of WordPress.org. If you need assistance to install WordPress.org or find a web host to use with WordPress.org, WordPress offers some recommendations.

As I point out the screencast, the real key to getting the WordPress.org to work (and look) like an old WordPress.com site comes via plugins.

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has customized its hosted version of WordPress to include some built-in features that simply are not included in a standard installation of WordPress.org.

Therefore, some media like video, embedded tweets and surveys may not appear correctly.

I quote some of the most common plugin in the video, but here are some quick links:

WordPress.com Stats--this will give you the same kind of stats on WordPress.org that are available to users of WordPress.com.VideoPress--if you've ever paid for an upgrade to VideoPress video, this plugin will bring the same functionality (and access to your videos VideoPress) on Twitter Widget-WordPress.org.Wickett-this is the same that WordPess.com widget is used to display tweets in the sidebar of a blog.Grunion-contact form-this plugin was used as the basis for the new functionality of the contact form in WordPress.com.PollDaddy--this plugin will allow any polls created on WordPress.com.After by moving the content from WordPress.com WordPress.org and install any plugin to enable the native functionality of WordPress.com, users may want to consider purchasing the update site Redirects to WordPress.com.

For $ 12 per year, WordPress.com will redirect the old WordPress site links to the new site. These are the 301 redirects correctly which means search engines will be updated to redirect traffic as well. This also means that most users do not need to pay for the upgrade after the first year.

You can read more about site redirect to WordPress.com and add the functionality in the updates section of the dashboard WordPress.com.

Have you ever migrate from WordPress.com to WordPress.org? Let us know your suggestions in the comments! Series supported by Rackspace

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